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Learning the Scholar's Craft Essay Series

H-Diplo Publications: roundtables, reviews, essays, & more...

Title Post Date
H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-3 on Petersen, _Death, Dominance, and State-Building_
H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-2 on Blankenship, _The Burden-Sharing Dilemma_
H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Review 141: Kollars on Hirst, _Politics of Play_
H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Review 140: Calori on Sanger, _New Cold Wars_
H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Article Review 177: Chervin on Wei and Summers, "The Chinese Government’s Negotiating Strategy Over the Future of Hong Kong"
H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-1 on Hopkins, _Capitalism in the Colonies_
H-Diplo| Jervis Forum Article Review 176: Rabinowitz on Möser, "'A Fly in the Ointment'"
H-Diplo Review 639: Mensah on Ahlman, _Ghana_
H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Review 139: Polelle on Heather and Rapley, _Why Empires Fall_
H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-1 on Yordanov, _Our Comrades in Havana_

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H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-3 on Petersen, _Death, Dominance, and State-Building_

christopher ball •09/15/2025 Discussion

The Jervis Forum

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum

Roundtable Review 17-3

Roger D. Petersen, Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention. Oxford University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9780197760741.

15 September 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt17-3 | Website: rjissf.org

X: @HDiplo | BlueSky: @h-diplo.bsky.social | Mastodon: @HDiplo

Editor: Diane Labrosse
Commissioning Editor: Daniel R. Hart 
Production Editor: Christopher Ball
Pre-Production Copy Editor: Bethany S. Keenan


 

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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Diplo: 7 September - 14 September

H-Net Job Guide •09/15/2025 Announcement
Home Office Notices
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Subject Fields
Historic Preservation, History Education, Humanities

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 7 September to 14 September. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-Announce. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.

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H-Diplo Publication Schedule, 15 to 26 September

Diane N. Labrosse •09/14/2025 Discussion

The H-Diplo publication schedule from 15 to 26 September is as follows:

Week of 15 September:

1. H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Roundtable Review of Roger D. Petersen, Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention. Oxford University Press, 2024

Introduction by Paul Staniland, University of Chicago

Reviewers:

Jesse Driscoll, University of California, San Diego

Heather S. Gregg, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Jacqueline L. Hazelton, Harvard University 

John Nagl, US Army War College

Response by Roger Petersen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2. H

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H-Net Reviews (H-Diplo)

MacDougall on Emerson, 'The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century'

Author
Emerson, Barbara
Reviewer
MacDougall, Philip

Emerson, Barbara. The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century. : C. Hurst and Company, 2024. xviii + 549 pp. $54.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781805260578.

Reviewed by Philip MacDougall (Independent Scholar)
Published on H-Diplo (September, 2025)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

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Dillman-Hasso on Tomczak, 'Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783'

Author
Tomczak, Richard H.
Reviewer
Dillman-Hasso, Jamal

Tomczak, Richard H.. Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025. 264 pp. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 9780228023623.

Reviewed by Jamal Dillman-Hasso (University of Michigan)
Published on H-Diplo (September, 2025)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

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Glaes on Byrnes, 'Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon'

Author
Byrnes, Melissa K.
Reviewer
Glaes, Gillian

Byrnes, Melissa K.. Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon. : University of Nebraska Press, 2023. xxxix + 305 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780803290730.$30.00 (paper), ISBN 9781496237583.

Reviewed by Gillian Glaes (University of Montana)
Published on H-Diplo (September, 2025)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

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Holden on Kieser, 'When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne'

Author
Kieser, Hans-Lukas
Reviewer
Holden, Stacy E.

Kieser, Hans-Lukas. When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne. : Cambridge University Press, 2023. Illustrations, maps. 342 pp. $42.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781316516423.

Reviewed by Stacy E. Holden (Purdue University)
Published on H-Diplo (July, 2025)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

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