Big books on grand strategy like Donald Stoker’s 704-page Purpose and Power face an uphill struggle.[1] As John Schuessler noted in a recent H-Diplo roundtable on The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy, the “sprawling” and disorganized nature of the field means that “all is not well with the study of grand strategy.”[2] Scholars, Schuessler continued,... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-12 Liliane Stadler. Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992. Brill…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-11 Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström, and Malin Åkebo, eds., Relational Peace Practices. Manchester University Press…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-10 Alexis Peri, Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women.| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Nationalisms in International Politics represents an ambitious attempt to integrate theories from social psychology and International Relations (IR) to explain how nationalism operates. Nationalism and its impact on world politics is a topic of longstanding importance, with pioneering entries from E.H. Carr (reviewed by none other than Hans Morgenthau), Ernest Gellner, Ernst Haas and others,... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Roundtable Review 17-5 David V. Gioe and Michael J. Morell, “Spy and Tell: The Promise and Peril of Disclosing Intelligence for Strategic Advantage,” Foreign Affairs 7:4 (2024): 138-152.| H-Diplo|RJISSF
A quick chat between Nicco and Pavel, recorded a while ago and only published now due to the summer pause!| LibreNews
2 September 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt17-1 | Website: rjissf.org X: @HDiplo | BlueSky: @h-diplo.bsky.social | Mastodon: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Daniel R.| H-Diplo|RJISSF
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11 July 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-47 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: John M. Schuessler Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
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I’ve said before that I love when we’re all surprisingly in sync with our monthly reads, and wow is everyone in sync this month – except for me! Below is mostly one comic that seems to have taken WWAC’s casual reading by storm, plus two very conceptually and aesthetically different recommendations. I think it’s a...| WWAC
We’ve got a wide array of fantasy and romance for you all this time around, with an epic historical tearjerker and a thoughtful piece of progressive nonfiction to round things out! Emily: A new edition of Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells came out November 19th from Tor, and it may now be my...| WWAC
30 December 2024 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-20 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Joshua Shifrinson Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…| H-Diplo|RJISSF