Reviews

Author:

Paul Midford

Reviewer:

Mina Pollmann

Pollmann on Midford, 'Overcoming Isolationism: Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism'

Paul Midford. Overcoming Isolationism: Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism. Studies in Asian Security Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. xvii + 245 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-1169-6.

Reviewed by Mina Pollmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Theodora Dragostinova

Reviewer:

Artan R. Hoxha

Hoxha on Dragostinova, 'The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene'

Theodora Dragostinova. The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 340 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-5555-2.

Author:

Amnon Aran

Reviewer:

Ziv Rubinovitz

Rubinovitz on Aran, 'Israeli Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War'

Amnon Aran. Israeli Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 433 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-05249-9.

Reviewed by Ziv Rubinovitz (University of Haifa, Israel) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Joana Cook

Reviewer:

Laura Sjoberg

Sjoberg on Cook, 'A Woman's Place: US Counterterrorism since 9/11'

Joana Cook. A Woman's Place: US Counterterrorism since 9/11. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xvi + 564 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-750655-4.

Author:

Hagar Kotef

Reviewer:

Tristan Sturm

Sturm on Kotef, 'The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine'

Hagar Kotef. The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. xvii + 300 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1133-0.

Reviewed by Tristan Sturm (Queen's University Belfast) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Francine Hirsch

Reviewer:

Michael S. Bryant

Bryant on Hirsch, 'Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II'

Francine Hirsch. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xvi + 536 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-937793-0.

Author:

Benjamin A. Cowan

Reviewer:

Lowell Gustafson

Gustafson on Cowan, 'Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right'

Benjamin A. Cowan. Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 304 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6206-0; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-6207-7; $24.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4696-6208-4.

Author:

Bohdan S. Kordan, Mitchell C. G. Dowie

Reviewer:

Bohdan Harasymiw

Harasymiw on Kordan, 'Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis'

Bohdan S. Kordan, Mitchell C. G. Dowie. Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. 152 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00135-5.

Reviewed by Bohdan Harasymiw (University of Calgary) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Julie Garey

Reviewer:

Seth A. Johnston

Johnston on Garey, 'The US Role in NATO’s Survival after the Cold War (Palgrave Studies in International Relations)'

Julie Garey. The US Role in NATO’s Survival after the Cold War (Palgrave Studies in International Relations). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. xi + 259 pp. $5.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-030-13677-2.

Reviewed by Seth A. Johnston (Georgetown University) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Erica De Bruin

Reviewer:

Peter B. White

White on De Bruin, 'How to Prevent Coups d'État: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival'

Erica De Bruin. How to Prevent Coups d'État: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xiv + 199 pp. $46.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5191-2.

Reviewed by Peter B. White (Auburn University) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Christine Walker

Reviewer:

Kathleen E.A. Monteith

Monteith on Walker, 'Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire'

Christine Walker. Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire. Williamsburg: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 336 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5879-7; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-5526-0.

Author:

Mary S. Barton

Reviewer:

Ross Kennedy

Kennedy on Barton, 'Counterterrorism between the Wars: An International History, 1919-1937'

Mary S. Barton. Counterterrorism between the Wars: An International History, 1919-1937. The Greater War 1912-1923 Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 224 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-886404-2.

Reviewed by Ross Kennedy (Illinois State University) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Danielle C. Skeehan

Reviewer:

Jordan B. Smith

Smith on Skeehan, 'The Fabric of Empire: Material and Literary Cultures of the Global Atlantic, 1650-1850'

Danielle C. Skeehan. The Fabric of Empire: Material and Literary Cultures of the Global Atlantic, 1650-1850. Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Illustrations. xiii + 184 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-3968-6.

Reviewed by Jordan B. Smith (Widener University) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Lydia Boyd, Emily Burrill, eds.

Reviewer:

Mary Hames

Hames on Boyd and Burrill, 'Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa: Human Rights, Society, and the State'

Lydia Boyd, Emily Burrill, eds. Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa: Human Rights, Society, and the State. Critical Human Rights Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. 216 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-32740-8.

Reviewed by Mary Hames (University of the Western Cape) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Quito Swan

Reviewer:

Meredith L. Roman

Roman on Swan, 'Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice'

Quito Swan. Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. 408 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-6641-7.

Reviewed by Meredith L. Roman (The College at Brockport (SUNY)) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

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Pollmann on Midford, 'Overcoming Isolationism: Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism'

Hoxha on Dragostinova, 'The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene'

Rubinovitz on Aran, 'Israeli Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War'

Sjoberg on Cook, 'A Woman's Place: US Counterterrorism since 9/11'

Sturm on Kotef, 'The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine'

Bryant on Hirsch, 'Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II'

Gustafson on Cowan, 'Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right'

Harasymiw on Kordan, 'Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis'

Johnston on Garey, 'The US Role in NATO’s Survival after the Cold War (Palgrave Studies in International Relations)'

White on De Bruin, 'How to Prevent Coups d'État: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival'

Monteith on Walker, 'Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire'

Kennedy on Barton, 'Counterterrorism between the Wars: An International History, 1919-1937'

Smith on Skeehan, 'The Fabric of Empire: Material and Literary Cultures of the Global Atlantic, 1650-1850'

Hames on Boyd and Burrill, 'Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa: Human Rights, Society, and the State'

Roman on Swan, 'Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice'

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