Reviews

Author:

Brian C. Rathbun

Reviewer:

Robin Markwica

Markwica on Rathbun, 'Reasoning of State: Realists, Romantics and Rationality in International Relations (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)'

Brian C. Rathbun. Reasoning of State: Realists, Romantics and Rationality in International Relations (Cambridge Studies in International Relations). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 350 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-44618-1.

Reviewed by Robin Markwica (European University Institute) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Barbara J. Keys, ed.

Reviewer:

John Soares

Soares on Keys, 'The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights'

Barbara J. Keys, ed. The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights. Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 248 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5150-0.

Reviewed by John Soares (Notre Dame University) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Keisha N. Blain, Tiffany M. Gill, eds.

Reviewer:

Meredith Roman

Roman on Blain and Gill, 'To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism'

Keisha N. Blain, Tiffany M. Gill, eds. To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism. Black Internationalism Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019. 280 pp. $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08411-9.

Reviewed by Meredith Roman (The College at Brockport) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Asa McKercher, Philip Van Huizen, eds.

Reviewer:

Tarah Brookfield

Brookfield on McKercher and Van Huizen, 'Undiplomatic History: The New Study of Canada and the World'

Asa McKercher, Philip Van Huizen, eds. Undiplomatic History: The New Study of Canada and the World. Rethinking Canada in the World Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. 384 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-5695-9; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-5694-2.

Reviewed by Tarah Brookfield (Wilfrid Laurier University) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

John Fisher, Effie G. H. Pedaliu, Richard Smith, eds.

Reviewer:

Sue Onslow

Onslow on Fisher and Pedaliu and Smith, 'The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century'

John Fisher, Effie G. H. Pedaliu, Richard Smith, eds. The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 594 pp. $159.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-46580-1.

Reviewed by Sue Onslow (University of London) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Ayça Çubukçu

Reviewer:

Johanna Goossens

Goossens on Çubukçu, 'For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq'

Ayça Çubukçu. For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 240 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5050-3.

Reviewed by Johanna Goossens (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Kimberly D. McKee

Reviewer:

Young Sun Park

Park on McKee, 'Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States'

Kimberly D. McKee. Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States. Asian American Experience Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019. xii + 231 pp. $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08405-8; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04228-7.

Author:

Hall Gardner

Reviewer:

Sarang Shidore

Shidore on Gardner, 'IR Theory, Historical Analogy, and Major Power War'

Hall Gardner. IR Theory, Historical Analogy, and Major Power War. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 339 pp. ($84.99), ISBN 978-3-030-04635-4.

Reviewed by Sarang Shidore (The University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

John M. Thompson

Reviewer:

Benjamin Coates

Coates on Thompson, 'Great Power Rising: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy'

John M. Thompson. Great Power Rising: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 288 pp. $23.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-19-085997-8; $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-085995-4.

Reviewed by Benjamin Coates (Wake Forest University) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Jessica Marie Falcone

Reviewer:

Suchandra Ghosh

Ghosh on Falcone, 'Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built'

Jessica Marie Falcone. Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 324 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-2346-9; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-2348-3.

Author:

Jeff Handmaker, Karin Arts, eds.

Reviewer:

Eric A. Heinze

Heinze on Handmaker and Arts, 'Mobilising International Law for "Global Justice"'

Jeff Handmaker, Karin Arts, eds. Mobilising International Law for "Global Justice". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 262 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49794-7.

Reviewed by Eric A. Heinze (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Lisa Rofel, Sylvia J. Yanagisako

Reviewer:

Tiantian Zheng

Zheng on Rofel and Yanagisako, 'Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion'

Lisa Rofel, Sylvia J. Yanagisako. Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion. The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. xiii + 377 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0045-7; $104.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-0029-7.

Reviewed by Tiantian Zheng (State University of New York, Cortland) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Eddie Michel

Reviewer:

Julianne H. Haefner

Haefner on Michel, 'The White House and White Africa: Presidential Policy toward Rhodesia during the UDI Era, 1965-1979'

Eddie Michel. The White House and White Africa: Presidential Policy toward Rhodesia during the UDI Era, 1965-1979. New York: Routledge, 2018. xiii + 256 pp. $149.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-31999-8.

Reviewed by Julianne H. Haefner (Central Michigan University) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Willeke Sandler

Reviewer:

Jakob Zollmann

Zollmann on Sandler, 'Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich'

Willeke Sandler. Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 360 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-069790-7.

Reviewed by Jakob Zollmann (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Emma Kuby

Reviewer:

Dan Stone

Stone on Kuby, 'Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945'

Emma Kuby. Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xii + 295 pp. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3279-9.

Reviewed by Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

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Markwica on Rathbun, 'Reasoning of State: Realists, Romantics and Rationality in International Relations (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)'

Soares on Keys, 'The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights'

Roman on Blain and Gill, 'To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism'

Brookfield on McKercher and Van Huizen, 'Undiplomatic History: The New Study of Canada and the World'

Onslow on Fisher and Pedaliu and Smith, 'The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century'

Goossens on Çubukçu, 'For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq'

Park on McKee, 'Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States'

Shidore on Gardner, 'IR Theory, Historical Analogy, and Major Power War'

Coates on Thompson, 'Great Power Rising: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy'

Ghosh on Falcone, 'Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built'

Heinze on Handmaker and Arts, 'Mobilising International Law for "Global Justice"'

Zheng on Rofel and Yanagisako, 'Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion'

Haefner on Michel, 'The White House and White Africa: Presidential Policy toward Rhodesia during the UDI Era, 1965-1979'

Zollmann on Sandler, 'Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich'

Stone on Kuby, 'Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945'

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