H-Diplo Publication Schedule, 01 to 26 May

Diane N. Labrosse Discussion

The H-Diplo publication schedule for the period 01 to 26 May is as follows:

Week of 01 May:

1. H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Stephen J. Macekura, Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Introduction by Kurk Dorsey, University of New Hampshire

Reviewed by:

David C. Engerman, Brandeis University

Joshua Howe, Reed College

Evelyn Krache Morris, Independent Scholar

Simon Toner, University of Sheffield

2. H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review of Kirssa Cline Ryckman and Mike Ryckman, “All Politics is Local: The Domestic Agenda of Terror Groups and the Study of Transnational Attack,” Journal of Global Security Studies, 2:1 (February 2017): 55-73.

Reviewed by: Seung-Whan Choi, University of Illinois at Chicago

3. The H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Series: America and the World - 2017 and Beyond

“Expertise and Naïveté in Decision-Making. Theory, History, and the Trump Administration”

Essay by Lori Helene Gronich, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

4. H-Diplo Review Essay on Fernando Guirao, Frances M.B. Lynch, and Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez, eds., Alan S. Milward and a Century of European Change (New York and London: Routledge, 2012) and Fernando Guirao and Frances M.B. Lynch, eds., Alan S. Milward and Contemporary European History. Collected Academic Reviews (New York and London, Routledge, 2016).

Reviewed by Alexander Reinfeldt, Universität Hamburg

5. H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Asa McKercher, Camelot and Canada: Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Introduction by Michael Carroll, MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada

Reviewed by:

Stephen Azzi, Carleton University

Jack Cunningham, University of Toronto

Daniel Macfarlane, Western Michigan University

Robert B. Rakove, Stanford University

Week of 08 May:

1. H-Diplo Roundtable Review of David Milne, Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2015.

Introduction by Andrew Preston, Cambridge University

Reviewed by:

Brooke L. Blower, Boston University

Robert K. Brigham, Vassar College

Ryan Irwin, State University of New York at Albany

James Graham Wilson, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

2. H-Diplo Article Review of Donggil Kim, “New insights into Mao’s initial strategic consideration towards the Korean War intervention.” Cold War Studies 16:3 (August 2016): 239-254.

Reviewed by Dajung Park, Center for Korean Peninsula Studies, Peking University

3. The H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Series: America and the World - 2017 and Beyond

Trump and Europe – An Inauspicious Start

Essay by Piers Ludlow, London School of Economics

4. H-Diplo Article Review of Anne-Sophie Gijs, “Fighting the Red Peril in the Congo. Paradoxes and Perspectives on an Equivocal Challenge to Belgium and the West (1947-1960).” Cold War History 16:3 (2016): 273-290.

Reviewed by Matthew G. Stanard, Berry College

5. H-Diplo Article Review of Asa McKercher, “A Helpful Fixer in a Hard Place: Canadian Mediation in the U.S. Confrontation with Cuba.” Journal of Cold War Studies 17:3 (Summer 2015): 4-35.

Reviewed by Lana Wylie, McMaster University

Week of 15 May:

1. H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable Review of David A. Lake, The Statebuilder's Dilemma:  On the Limits of Foreign Intervention. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.

Introduction by Francis J. Gavin, The Johns Hopkins University 

Reviewed by:

David Chandler, University of Westminister

Bridget L. Coggins, University of California, Santa Barbara

Stephen D. Krasner, Stanford University

2. H-Diplo Article Review of Kazushi Minami, “Re-examining the end of Mao’s revolution: China’s changing statecraft and Sino-American relations, 1973–1978.” Cold War History, 16:4 (2016), 359-375.

Reviewed by Sheng Peng, University of Oxford

3. The H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Series: America and the World - 2017 and Beyond

Trump and Latin America: Asymmetry and the Problem of Influence

Essay by Tom Long, University of Reading, and Max Paul Friedman, American University

4. H-Diplo Article Review of Evan McCormick, “Freedom Tide?: Ideology, Politics, and the Origins of Democracy Promotion in US Central America Policy, 1980–1984.” Journal of Cold War Studies 16:4 (Fall 2014): 60-109.

Reviewed by Simon Miles, University of Texas at Austin

5. H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review of Austin Carson and Keren Yarhi-Milo, “Covert Communication: The Intelligibility and Credibility of Signaling in Secret.” Security Studies 126:1 (2017): 124-156.

Reviewed by Lindsey A. O’Rourke, Boston College

Week of 22 May:

1. H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review of Phil M. Haun, Coercion, Survival, and WarWhy Weak States Resist the United States.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 2015.

Introduction by Dan Byman, Georgetown University

Reviewed by:

Dan Altman, Dartmouth College

Christine M. Leah, Yale University

Todd Sechser, University of Virginia

Andrew L. Stigler, Naval War College

2. H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review of Benjamin Zala, “Polarity Analysis and Collective Perceptions of Power: The Need for a New Approach.” Journal of Global Security Studies 2:1 (February 20017): 2-17.

Reviewed by Nerses Kopalyan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

3. H-Diplo Article Review of Nathaniel K. Powell, “The “Cuba of the West”? France’s Cold War in Zaire, 1977-1978,” Journal of Cold War Studies 18:2 (Spring 2016): 64-96.

Reviewed by Anna Konieczna, University Paris-Est Créteil 

4.  H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review of Charles W. Mahoney, “Buyer Beware: How Market Structure Affects Contracting and Company performance in Private Military Industry.” Security Studies, 26:1 (January 2017): 30-59.

Reviewed by Joanna Spear, George Washington University

Regards,

Diane Labrosse, H-Diplo managing editor