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We commission scholarly reviews of academic articles on topics in foreign relations history cover both print and online-only journals, including Diplomatic History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, and History Compass. (more»)

Reviewer(s): Peter Rutland
Article Author: David R. Stone
Journal Issue: Journal of Cold War Studies 10.3 (Summer 2008)
Title: "CMEA's International Investment Bank and the crisis of developed socialism"
Publication Date: 3 October 2008

Reviewer: Brad Simpson
Article Author: Ragna Boden
Journal Issue: Journal of Cold War Studies 10.3 (Summer 2008)
Title(s): “Cold War Economics: Soviet Aid to Indonesia.”
Publication Date: 30 September 2008

Reviewer: Mary Ann Heiss
Article Author: Max Paul Friedman
Journal Issue: Diplomatic History 32.4 (September 2008)
Title(s): "Anti-Americanism and U.S. Foreign Relations" (Bernath Lecture)
Publication Date: 15 September 2008

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Our roundtable reviews provide in-depth coverage of key works in foregn relations and diplomatic history. Every roundtable features a panel of distinguished specialists and, often, thoughtful replies from the authors themselves. (more»)

Author: Kenton Clymer
Title: Troubled Relations: The United States and Cambodia since 1870
Reviewers: Thomas Maddux, David Anderson, Anne Foster, T. Christopher Jespersen

Author: Ian Shapiro
Title: Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror
Reviewers: Curt Cardwell, Campbell Craig Lloyd Gardner, Mary Sarotte

Author: Gregg Brazinsky
Title: Nation Building in South Korea:  Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy
Reviewers: Thomas Maddux, Sung-Yoon Lee, Sang-Yoon Ma, James I. Matray, Michael Robinson, Brad Simpson

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H-Diplo participates in the H-Net Book Reviews program and reviews books on foreign relations history, broadly defined, including monographs, primary source collections, and essay collections. We also publish some specialized reviews such as our roundtable reviews and capsule booknotes. (more»)

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Reviewer: Michael Provence
Title: The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
Author: Erez Manela

Reviewer: Campbell Craig
Title: Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan
Author: Sean L. Malloy

Reviewer: Jeffrey Taliaferro
Title: Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics
Author: Jeremy Pressman

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The Spotlight is an H-Diplo column designed to stimulate a dialogue about the contours of “international history.” Who are “international” historians, and what are they writing? How are the methodologies and lines of inquiry unfolding? As an Internet-based source of commentary and analysis, the IHS aims to use the flexibility of an electronic format to draw attention to a wide range of materials – research programs, journal articles, and even web sites of potential interest to list members. (more»)

IHS 2007, No. 1- What did the League do, exactly?

H-Diplo essays range from state of the field thoughtpieces to extended critiques of selected works to retrospectives on noteworthy historical figures. (more»)

Essayist: Mark Stout
Title: Review of R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Jackson, and Len Scott, eds.. Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State.
Publication Date: 9 July 2008

Essayist: William Glenn Gray
Title: "Fractal Geometry." Review of Helga Haftendorn, Georges-Henri Soutou, Stephen F. Szabo, and Samuel F. Wells, Jr., eds. The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of the New Europe
Publication Date: 22 May 2008

Essayists: Kim Munholland
Title: Review of Irwin M. Wall. Les États-Unis et la guerre d’Algérie, préface de Georges-Henri Soutou, traduit de l’anglais par Philippe-Étienne Raviart
Publication Date: 10 January 2008

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