H-Diplo Publication Schedule, 16 to 27 January

The H-Diplo publication schedule for the period 16 to 27 January is as follows:

Week of 16 January:

1. H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Amanda Boczar, An American Brothel: Sex and Diplomacy in the Vietnam War. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022. ISBN: 1501761358.  

Introduction by Heather Stur, University of Southern Mississippi

Reviewers:

Gregory Daddis, San Diego State University

Ariel Natalo-Lifton, Temple University

Kara Dixon Vuic, Texas Christian University

Kelly Wilson-Buford, Arkansas University

Author’s Response by Amanda Boczar, University of South Florida Libraries

2. H-Diplo Article Review of Alsu Tagirova, “From Crisis Management to Realignment of Forces: The Diplomatic ‘Geometry’ of the 1969–1978 Sino-Soviet Border Talks,” Journal of Cold War Studies 24:1 (Winter 2022), 116-154.

Reviewed by Xue Fu, East China Normal University.

3. H-Diplo Review Essay of Kristin Hoganson and Jay Sexton, eds., The Cambridge History of America and the World. Volume 2: 1820-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Reviewed by Stephen Tuffnell, University of Oxford.

4. H-Diplo/RJISSF Roundtable Forum on Stephen J. Macekura. The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and Its Critics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Introduction by: Nils Gilman, Berggruen Institute

Reviewed by:

Trevor Jackson, George Washington University

Amanda McVety, Miami University

Author’s Response by Stephen Macekura, Indiana University

Week of 23 January:

1. H-Diplo/RJISSF Roundtable Review of Chien-Wen Kung, Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022.

Introduction by: Dong Wang, Lived Places Publishing, New York

Reviewers:

John Fitzgerald, Swinburne University and Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Gavin Healy, University of Michigan

Bradley Simpson, University of Connecticut

Author’s response by: Chien-Wen Kung, National University of Singapore

2. H-Diplo Article Review of Nguyet Nguyen, “Accidental Activists: USAID Builds a Vietnamese Antiwar Elite,” Diplomatic History 46:3 (June 2022): 549-574.

Reviewed by Addison Jensen, University of California, Santa Barbara

3. H-Diplo Review Gene Zubovich, Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.

Reviewed by Sarah B. Snyder, American University

4. H-Diplo/RJISSF Roundtable Review of Carter Malkasian, The American War in Afghanistan: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021 ISBN: 9780197550779, and Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2021, ISBN: 9781982159009.

Introduction by William Inboden, the University of Texas at Austin

Reviewers:

Conrad Crane, U.S. Army War College

Todd Greentree, Changing Character of War Centre at Oxford University

Elisabeth Leake, Fletcher School at Tufts University

Jeffrey H. Michaels, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals

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With best regards,

Diane Labrosse, H-Diplo Managing Editor