The late Paul Schroeder, who died in 2020, was perhaps his generation’s greatest historian of nineteenth century European diplomacy. His books, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848, Metternich’s Diplomacy at its Zenith 1820–1823, and Austria, Great Britain, and the Crimean War: The Destruction of the European Concert, covered the period in great breadth and depth.[1]... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Next year will mark the thirty-year anniversary of John Perry Barlow’s seminal “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” manifesto arguing that the internet would withstand government efforts to control it by the very nature of its virtual presence and borderlessness.[1] Those thirty years have brought with them a host of new government efforts to... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Roundtable Review 17-15 Max Boot…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-14 Douglas Porch, Defeat and Division: France at War 1939–1942. Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9781107047464…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
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
In Democratic Elitism, Natasha Piano provides a vital reappraisal of the so-called “elite theory” of polymathic political thinkers Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, and Robert Michels.[1] Her reinterpretation argues that this “Italian School of Elitism” has been misappropriated in the Anglophone world. They are not in fact “elite theorists,” but “democratic theorists of elitism” (x). Piano... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 145 Paul W. Schroeder. America’s Fatal Leap, 1991–2016. Verso, 2025. ISBN: 9781804295762. 29 October 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.| 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 Review 144 Tehila Sasson. The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire. Princeton University Press, 2024.| H-Diplo|RJISSF
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Article Review 185 Wang Chenyi. “Mao’s Cambodian Legacy: An ‘Ideological Victory’ and a Strategic Failure.” Journal of Cold War Studies 6:1…| 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
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
Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-9 on Powers, Nationalisms in International Politics| H-Diplo|RJISSF
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
18 July 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-P1 | Website: rjissf.org | X: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Jennifer L. Erickson Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Thomas Parker, George Washington University 16 July 2025 | PDF: http://issforum.org/to/RE134 | Website: rjissf.org | X: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse | Commissioning Editor: Daniel R. Hart |…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
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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