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Diplomatic History
Interviews with scholars of diplomatic history about their new books.
July 21, 2024
To Turn the Whole World Over
Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, th…
July 16, 2024
Masters of the Middle Waters
America’s waterways were once the superhighways of travel and communication. Coursing through a central line across the landscape, with tributaries co…
July 15, 2024
Sino-Pacific Relations
The 2024 Solomon Islands elections were surprisingly peaceful. The deepening economic inequalities, widespread corruption, rogue demagogues manipulati…
July 14, 2024
Making Never-Never Land
Myths about the powers held by the United States are often supported by the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, which derives its logic from the interp…
July 13, 2024
Frenemies
Alliances among ideological enemies confronting a common foe, or "frenemy" alliances, are unlike coalitions among ideologically-similar states facing …
July 13, 2024
The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq
How is foreign policy made in Iraq? Based on dozens of interviews with senior officials and politicians, The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq: Politic…
July 9, 2024
Vichy's Double Bind
Karine Varley's book Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War (Cambridge UP, 2023) advances …
July 8, 2024
Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique
Explaining how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties, this book offers a detailed examination of peace proce…
July 6, 2024
World on the Brink
In his book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century (PublicAffairs, 2024), Dmitri Alperovitch (with Garrett M.…
June 27, 2024
Building a Nation at War
Building a Nation at War: Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II (Harva…
June 25, 2024
Purpose and Power
In our interview, I spoke with Donald Stoker about the changes in American grand strategy over the past 250 years and the major themes from his new …
June 23, 2024
Sino-Italian Political and Economic Relations
Sino-Italian Political and Economic Relations: From the Treaty of Friendship to the Second World War (Routledge, 2024) presents a comprehensive narrat…
June 22, 2024
Germany and China
Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security (Bloomsbury, 2024) is a groundbreaking book, of which the findings hav…
June 22, 2024
Holding Their Breath
In Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II (Cornell UP, 2023), M. Girard Dorsey uncovers just…
June 18, 2024
21st Century as the Pacific Century
With the ever-greater shift of the balance of global power towards the Pacific region, what does this have implications for the geopolitics of the reg…
June 17, 2024
Cosmopolitan Elites
Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Kira Huju narrates the birth, …
June 17, 2024
China's Galaxy Empire
In China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century (Oxford University Press, 2024), authors Dr. John Keane and Dr. Ba…
June 16, 2024
Geopolitics and International Relations
Although we live in a globalised world, territorially embedded factors are highly relevant in such domains as security, economy, energy, environment, …
June 14, 2024
States-in-Waiting
Dr. Lydia Walker's deeply researched and carefully narrated debut monograph, States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization (Cambridg…
June 9, 2024
Harmony and Normalization
Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba a…