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Paul C. Allen. Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598-1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2000. xvi + 335 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-07682-0.
Reviewed by Reid J. Rozen (Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (on leave)) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2000)
David F. Rudgers. Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. vii + 244 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-1024-2.
Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb (National Endowment for the Humanities ) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2000)
Judith S. Jeffrey. Ambiguous Commitments and Uncertain Policies: The Truman Doctrine in Greece, 1947-1952. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2000. xii + 257 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7391-0046-2.
Reviewed by Mark S. Byrnes (Department of History, Norwich University) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2000)
Greece was no Vietnam
Greece was no Vietnam
Andrew Moravcsik. The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. x + 514 pp. $22.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8014-8509-1.
Reviewed by Todd Alan Good (Bowling Green State University ) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2000)
Andrew Valls, ed. Ethics in International Affairs: Theories and Cases. Foreword by Virginia Held. Lanham, MD and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. xx + 241 pp. $64.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8476-9157-9.
Reviewed by Michael L. Krenn (Department of History, University of Miami ) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2000)
Arch Puddington. Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. xix + 382 pp. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-2158-1.
Reviewed by Scott Lucas (Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2000)
Robert J. McMahon. The Limits of Empire. The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xii + 276 pp. $18.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-10881-2.
Reviewed by Marc Frey (Institute of Anglo-American History, University of Cologne, Germany) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2000)
Paul G. Pierpaoli, Jr. Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. xi + 236 pp. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-1206-1.
Reviewed by Mark S. Byrnes (Department of History, Norwich University) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2000)
A Corporatist View of the Korean War at Home
Marc Trachtenberg. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement 1945-1963. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. xi + 402 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-00273-6; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-00183-8.
Reviewed by Tony Smith (Tufts University) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2000)
Marc Trachtenberg. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement 1945-1963. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. xi + 402 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-00273-6; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-00183-8.
Reviewed by Thomas R. Maddux (CSU Northridge) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2000)
Martin Hearson.
Imposing Standards: The North-South Dimension to Global Tax Politics (Cornell Studies in Money).
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 246 pp.
$19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-5598-9. 
David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Alexandra Bekasova, eds.
Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History.
Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. xxi + 343 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-912186-16-7.
Bernadette Whelan. De Valera and Roosevelt: Irish and American Diplomacy in Times of Crisis, 1932–1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xi + 387 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-83017-1.
Reviewed by David Woolner (Marist College) Published on H-Diplo (March, 2022) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Ryan D. Griffiths.
Secession and the Sovereignty Game: Strategy and Tactics for Aspiring Nations.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Illustrations, tables. xii + 231 pp.
$49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5474-6.
Rocío Zambrana.
Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (Radical Américas).
Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.
$94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-1183-5.
