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Title	Post Date
H-Diplo Review Essay 525: Grimm on Decker & McMahon, _The Idea of Development in Africa_	10/03/2023 - 8:23am
H-Diplo\|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-6 on Leffler _Confronting Saddam Hussein_	10/02/2023 - 8:22am
H-Diplo Review Essay 524: Garner on Cobbs, _Fearless Women_	09/29/2023 - 7:00am
H-Diplo\|RJISSF Review Essay 79: Grgić on Goldgeier & Shifrinson, _Evaluating NATO Enlargement_	09/28/2023 - 7:24am
H-Diplo\|RJISSF Article Review 163: Miller on Trachtenberg and Jervis on SALT	09/27/2023 - 7:57am
H-Diplo\|RJISSF Review Essay 78: Miller on Skabelund, _Inglorious, Illegal Bastards_	09/26/2023 - 6:50am
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-2 on Scarnecchia, _Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe_	09/25/2023 - 6:56pm
H-Diplo\|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-5 on Ghalehdar, _The Origins of Overthrow_	09/22/2023 - 1:19am
H-Diplo\|RJISSF Review Essay 77: Quinn on Nichols & Milne, eds, _Ideology in US Foreign Relations_	09/21/2023 - 1:41am
H-Diplo\|RJISSF Review Essay 76: Roberts on Gardner, _Year of the Earth Serpent Changing Colors_	09/19/2023 - 3:26am

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CfP: AAS-in-Asia (Yogyakarta, July 2024): Non-Indo-Centric International Histories of South Asia

Location

United Kingdom

Subject Fields

Asian History / Studies

CALL FOR PAPER: AAS-in-Asia 2024

Dear all, please consider applying to this panel if you’re working on South Asian international histories. The panel will be held at the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (9-11 July 2024).

Taking the Elephant Out of the Room: Non-Indo-Centric International Histories of South Asia

H-Diplo Review Essay 525: Grimm on Decker & McMahon, _The Idea of Development in Africa_

H-Diplo REVIEW ESSAY 525

3 October 2023

Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon. The Idea of Development in Africa: A History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781107103696 (hardcover, $95.00); 9781107503229 (softcover, $31.99); 9781009028615 (e-book, $31.99)

https://hdiplo.org/to/E525
Editor: Diane Labrosse | Commissioning Editor: Diane Labrosse | Production Editor: Christopher Ball

Review by Kevin E. Grimm, Regent University

While the bibliography of The Idea of Development in Africa shows that much has been written about development and modernization

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Diplo: 25 September - 2 October

Subject Fields

African American History / Studies, African History / Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 25 September to 2 October. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-Diplo. 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.

H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-6 on Leffler _Confronting Saddam Hussein_

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum

Roundtable Review 15-6

Melvyn P. Leffler. Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9780197610770

2 October 2023 |PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt15-6 | Website: rjissf.org

Editor: Diane Labrosse
Commissioning Editor: Thomas Maddux
Production Editor: Christopher Ball
Copy Editor: Bethany Keenan

Contents

Introduction by Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut 2

Review by Don Casler, Brown University. 10

Review by

Pechlivanis on Marantzides, 'Under Stalin's Shadow: A Global History of Greek Communism'

Author

Marantzides, Nikos A.

Reviewer

Pechlivanis, Paschalis

Marantzides, Nikos A.. Under Stalin's Shadow: A Global History of Greek Communism. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023. xi + 281 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 9781501768347.

Kunakhovich on Hoyer, 'Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany'

Author

Hoyer, Katya

Reviewer

Kunakhovich, Kyrill

Hoyer, Katya. Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. New York: Basic Books, 2023. 496 pp. $31.50 (cloth), ISBN 9781541602571.

Reviewed by Kyrill Kunakhovich (University of Virginia)
Published on H-Diplo (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Pechlivanis on Marantzides, 'Under Stalin's Shadow: A Global History of Greek Communism'

Author

Marantzides, Nikos A.

Reviewer

Pechlivanis, Paschalis

Kunakhovich on Hoyer, 'Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany'

Author

Hoyer, Katya

Reviewer

Kunakhovich, Kyrill

Hoyer, Katya. Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. New York: Basic Books, 2023. 496 pp. $31.50 (cloth), ISBN 9781541602571.

Reviewed by Kyrill Kunakhovich (University of Virginia)
Published on H-Diplo (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Bachman on Der Matossian, 'Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century'

Author

Der Matossian, Bedross, ed.

Reviewer

Bachman, Jeff

Der Matossian, Bedross, ed.. Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 416 pp. $70.00 (e-book), ISBN 9781496235541.

Reviewed by Jeff Bachman (American University)
Published on H-Diplo (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Power on Grzymała-Busse, 'Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State'

Author

Grzymała-Busse, Anna Maria

Reviewer

Power, Amanda

Grzymała-Busse, Anna Maria. Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. xii + 235 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780691245089.

Bonfiglioli on Russo, 'Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975'

Author

Russo, Giusi

Reviewer

Bonfiglioli, Chiara

Russo, Giusi. Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975. Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 288 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781496205810.$30.00 (paper), ISBN 9781496234438.

Bell on Park, 'Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process'

Author

Park, Joowon

Reviewer

Bell, Markus

Park, Joowon. Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. viii + 211 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780520384248.

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