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H-Diplo Article Reviews
No. 513
Published on 25 February 2015
H-Diplo Article Review Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
Web and Production Editor: George Fujii
Commissioned for H-Diplo by Thomas Maddux
PDF version of H-Diplo Article Review 513 on Olga Ulianova. “Corvalán for Bukovsky: A Real Exchange of Prisoners during an Imaginary War. The Chilean Dictatorship, the Soviet Union, and US Mediation, 1973–1976.” Cold War History 14:3 (August 2014): 315-336. DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2013.793310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2013.793310
I think you are failing to take into account three factors:
First, the interpretation of the principles behind Wilson's Fourteen Points leading to the readjustment of frontiers along "clearly recognizable lines of nationality" led to the movement to consolidate German-speaking Austria within a German Republic (prevented, of course by the Treaty of Saint-Germain of September 1919) - i.e., the tendency to consolidate (along national boundaries, rather than supra-national), rather than separate, that governed the peacemaker's decisions.
Clemenceau DID actively consider the partition of Germany, particularly the separation of the Rhineland. The place to start is Walter McDougall's _France's Rhineland Diplomacy_.
Dave Stone
Kansas State University
H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable, Volume VII, No. 13 (2015)
I'm writing about the various strands in the interwar period that led to World War II. One that is frequently remarked is the failure to restore any sort of structurally stable balance of power in Europe. It occurs to me that the only very plausible way to have done this would have been to break Germany into two stable halves, neither powerful enough to readily prevail over its neighbors.
I feel sure that I cannot be the first person to have thought of this, but I am not aware of my precursors. I wonder whether anyone can point me to some.
Joshua A. Fogel. Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 320 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-28330-5.
Reviewed by Matthew D. Johnson (History Department, Grinnell College)
Published on H-Diplo (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Edited on 19 February by Diane Labrosse, H-Diplo managing editor.
Reviewer’s response to comments by Geoffrey Roberts on Steven Merritt Miner’s H-Diplo review of Roger Moorhouse, The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-41. New York: Basic Books, 2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/58075/miner-moorhouse-devils-alliance-hi...
Response by Steven M. Miner, Ohio University
The H-Diplo Publication Schedule for the period 16 February to 20 March is as follows:
Week of 23 February:
1. H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review of Bear Braumoeller, The Great Powers and the International System Systemic Theory in Empirical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Introduction by William C. Wohlforth
Reviewers:
Michael Cairo, Transylvania University
Michael C. Horowitz, University of Pennsylvania
William R. Thompson, Indiana University
Joshua A. Fogel. Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 320 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-28330-5.
Reviewed by Matthew D. Johnson (History Department, Grinnell College)
Published on H-Diplo (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Thomas G. Mahnken, Dan Blumenthal, eds. Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security. Stanford: Stanford Security Studies, 2014. 320 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9149-6; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8047-9274-5.
Reviewed by Richard Fisher (International Assessment and Strategy Center)
Published on H-Diplo (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Robert Gerwarth, Erez Manela, eds. Empires at War, 1911-1923. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Illustrations, maps. 256 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-870251-1.
Reviewed by Maureen Healy (Lewis and Clark College)
Published on H-Diplo (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Moeed Yusuf, ed. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia: Through a Peacebuilding Lens. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2014. 328 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60127-191-4.
Reviewed by Chris Colley (Indiana University)
Published on H-Diplo (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Approaches to Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia
Jonathan Tonge. Comparative Peace Processes. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014. ix + 228 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7456-4290-1; $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7456-4289-5.
Reviewed by Sung Yong Lee (University at Otago)
Published on H-Diplo (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
