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Joshua Kurlantzick. A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. 336 pp. 28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4516-6786-8.
Reviewed by Chia Youyee Vang (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Published on H-Diplo (June, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
The H-Diplo publication schedule for the period 26 June to 15 July is as follows:
Week of 26 June:
1. H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review of Matthew A. Baum and Philip B.K. Potter, War and Democratic Constraint: How the Public Influences Foreign Policy. Princeton University Press, 2105.
Introduction by Elizabeth N. Saunders, George Washington University
Reviewers:
Sarah E. Croco, University of Maryland
Christopher F. Gelpi, The Ohio State University
Thomas J. Scotto, University of Strathclyde
H-Diplo
Roundtable Review
Volume XVIII, No. 30 (2017)
23 June 2017
Roundtable Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
Roundtable and Web Production Editor: George Fujii
Introduction by Thomas Schwartz
PDF version of H-Diplo Roundtable XVIII, 30 on Leopoldo Nuti, Frédéric Bozo, Marie-Pierre Rey, and Bernd Rother, eds. The Euro Missile Crisis and the End of the Cold War. Washington, D.C. and Stanford: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780804792868 (cloth, $65.00).
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A two-day international seminar on
The First World War: The Indian Context
5th-6th January 2018
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H-Diplo
Article Review
No. 705
22 June 2017
Article Review Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
Web and Production Editor: George Fujii
PDF version of H-Diplo Article Review 705 on Brandon Seto. “A Defense of Faith: SCAP and Japan’s Religious Rehabilitation in the Early Cold War.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 23:4 (2016): 368-393. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18765610-02304002.
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H-Diplo | ISSF POLICY Series
America and the World—2017 and Beyond
Stability versus Flexibility in Trumpian Foreign Policy
Essay by John Prados, National Security Archive
Published on 21 June 2017 | issforum.org
Editors: Robert Jervis, Francis Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse
Web and Production Editor: George Fujii
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Joshua Kurlantzick. A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. 336 pp. 28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4516-6786-8.
Reviewed by Chia Youyee Vang (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Published on H-Diplo (June, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Karim Makdisi, Vijay Prashad, eds. Land of Blue Helmets: The United Nations and the Arab World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016. 552 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-28694-8; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-28693-1.
Reviewed by Lise M. Howard (Georgetown University)
Published on H-Diplo (June, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
The Past and Future of UN Action: The Arab World
Lawrence Wright. The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State. New York: Knopf, 2016. 384 pp. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-385-35205-5.
Reviewed by Justin Conrad (UNC Charlotte)
Published on H-Diplo (June, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Robert J. Lieber. Retreat and its Consequences: American Foreign Policy and the Problem of World Order. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 152 pp. $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-50671-4.
Reviewed by Kyle Haynes (Purdue University)
Published on H-Diplo (June, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Marc Sageman. Misunderstanding Terrorism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 224 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4889-0.
Reviewed by Avery Plaw (University of Massachusettes, Dartmouth)
Published on H-Diplo (June, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
