The H-Diplo DiscussionNETWORK is a moderated, electronic list with over 4,000 subscribers who discuss foreign relations history, broadly defined. The list has a companion RSS feed and full online archives of all content dating back to 1993. (more»)

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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: Irwin Wall
Article Author: Benjamin Varat
Journal Issue: Diplomacy and Statecraft 19.1 (March 2008)
Title(s): "Point of Departure: A Reassessment of Charles de Gaulle and the Paris Summit of May 1960"
Publication Date: 3 September 2008

Reviewer: Tom Nichols
Article Author: Alexander Antonovich Liakhovsky.
Journal Issue: CWHIP Working Paper 51
Title(s): "Inside the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Seizure of Kabul, December 1979."
Publication Date: 2 September 2008

Reviewer(s): James McAllister
Article Author: Francis M. Bator (with various comments)
Journal Issue: Diplomatic History 32.3 (June 2008)
Title: "No Good Choices: LBJ and the Vietnam/Great Society Connection."
Publication Date: 25 July 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: 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

Author: Kristin Hoganson
Title: Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
Reviewers: Thomas Maddux, Christopher Endy, Mary Renda, Ian Tyrrell, Mari Yoshihara

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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»)

Recent BookReviews »

Reviewer: Andrew McKevitt
Title: First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century, The
Author: Richard T. Arndt

Reviewer: Daniel S. Margolies
Title: Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America's Future
Author: Geoffrey Perret

Reviewer: Giles Scott-Smith
Title: Hollywood's Cold War
Author: Tony Shaw

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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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