Jervis Forum Article Review 190: Yoder on Casler and Jost, “Lost in Transmission” In “Lost in Transmission: Bureaucracy, Noise, and Communication in International Politics,” Don Casler and Tyler Jost introduce a novel variable that affects the credibility of interstate signaling: the clarity and…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-33 on Owens, Erased “Erased.” It is not an adjective. It is a verb in the passive tense. Working to become a feminist in one’s own scholarship means becoming wary of verbs that are presented in the passive tense. One learns that one must complete the passive-tensed…

Chaos Unleashed Policy Series Introductory Essay: Emerging Master Narratives of IR Theory in the Age of Trump Building on the first two books in the Jervis Forum’s series about Donald Trump’s impact on international politics, our forthcoming set of essays and planned third volume take stock of the…

Announcing “Chaos Unleashed” Series The Jervis Forum H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Policy Series Chaos Unleashed: The Second Trump Administration and the Future of the Liberal International Order General Editors: Richard H. Immerman, Jack L. Snyder, and Diane N. Labrosse Production Editor: Christopher Ball…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-32 on Maurer and Goldstein eds., “Brian McKercher” As someone who has done a fair amount of research on the Anglo-American relationship, it is a distinct pleasure for me to introduce H-Diplo’s forum on Diplomacy & Statecraft’s special issue on the work of Brian…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-31 on Anderson, ed., Natopolitanism This collection is a contribution to the heated debate on whether NATO expansion is responsible for the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The editor, Grey Anderson, argues that NATO bears primary responsibility for the war.[1]…

Untitled The Jervis Forum H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 178 Benoît Pelopidas, ed., Nuclear France: New Questions, New Sources, New Findings (Routledge, 2025). ISBN 9781032582023. Anna Bartoux, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard…

Jervis Forum Review 177: Nychyk on Kim, Putin’s Revenge Putin’s Revenge: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine by Lucian Kim is an exciting complement to the emerging literature on Russia's war against Ukraine, which started in 2014 and escalated into a full-scale invasion in 2022.[1] The book’s main goal is…

Jervis Forum Review 176: Wood on Beck, Homeland In his own words, Richard Beck describes his ambitious book, Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life, as an effort to explain “how the war on terror changed life in the United States” (317). Beck is a senior writer at n +1, a print and digital…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-30 on Golub, Warriors in Washington Dame Freya Stark, an iconoclastic British world traveler, writer, and keen observer of international affairs, met a great many important leaders in her time. Not all of them inspired her. She was nevertheless awe-struck by Henry…

Jervis Forum Review 175: Nord on Duroselle, Cahiers de l’été 1944 The Jervis Forum H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 175 Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, Cahiers de l’été 1944. Édition établie, présentée et annotée par Laurence Badel (Paris: Gallimard, 2025). ISBN:…

Jervis Forum Review 174: Carroll on Channell-Justice, Without the State Emily Channell-Justice’s Without the State is a rich, ethnographic exploration of leftist activism in Ukraine before, during, and after the 2013–2014 EuroMaidan Revolution. It offers an intimate view of leftist social and…

Jervis Forum Review 173: Fettweis on Popescu, No Peer Rivals There’s nothing like a foolish, unnecessary war to inspire a fundamental reexamination of US grand strategy. The 2003 invasion of Iraq renewed scholarly interest in the concept of strategic restraint, which seemed to offer an alternative…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-29 on Friedman, The Commander-in-Chief Test Jeffrey A. Friedman’s The Commander in Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy is a masterful and timely new book by one of our discipline’s most insightful and creative scholars, who…

Jervis Forum Review 172: Evangelista on Kramer, Apocalyptic Crimes Nuclear weapons have been around for over 80 years. Is there anything new to be written about them? In particular, would H-Diplo readers knowledgeable about the topic find it worth their while to read a new book on the legality of…

Jervis Forum Article Review 189: McLaughlin on Maguire, et al., “Round table for the 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, Part I” Not long ago comedian Hasan Minhaj dropped a pithy line in one of his specials that would sum up why so many scholars first got into Vietnam War history: “every…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-28 on Fuhrmann, Influence Without Arms Matthew Fuhrmann’s Influence Without Arms is an ambitious, wide-ranging analysis of the role of nuclear latency in international politics. Scholarly investigation of the topic has been growing over the past decade, but there are few…

Jervis Forum Review 171: Ermolaeva on Faure, The Rise of the Russian Hawks Was there, in fact, a “previously deliberated plan,” and does it remain in effect today? This question lies at the heart of contemporary Russian studies, as scholars seek to unravel the phenomenon most often described as…

Jervis Forum Review 170: Oakley on Coll, The Achilles Trap Steve Coll, who is the author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S, has once again provided readers with an engaging and well-researched book on US policy in the Middle East; this time on the factors that led to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.[1]…

The Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-27 Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace: The Vitality and Failure of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda “a closer look on how and if WPS can continue to carry this weight is in order.” –Jamie J. Hagen wp.me/p2Insd-7HW

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-27 on Kirby and Shepherd, Governing the Feminist Peace Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace is an engagement with, and evaluation of, the complexities of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda 25 years into its tenure by two scholars who…

Jervis Forum Review 169 Meredith Roman The Black Panthers and the Soviets: A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements “highlight(s) the ways white Americans may have overlooked the negative experiences that many of their fellow citizens have had with the police”–Sarah B. Snyder wp.me/p2Insd-7Hw

Jervis Forum Review 169: Snyder on Roman, The Black Panthers and the Soviets New York Times journalist Harrison Salisbury interviewed Soviet dissident Valery Chalidze in 1973, and the two discussed the emotions that citizens in each country experienced toward the police. For his part, Salisbury…

Roundtable Review 17-26 Martin Senn and Carmen Wunderlich, eds., “The Complexity of Nuclear (Dis)Ordering.” The national security risk of the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the 1960s, which was heralded inter alia by the Chinese nuclear test in 1964 and the relative ease of the new technique…

Jervis Forum Review 168 Sam Lebovic’s State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America’s Secrecy Regime “many Americans increasingly doubt the honesty, transparency, and processes of government institutions and officials.” –Cameron Givens and Christopher McKnight Nichols wp.me/p2Insd-7Hy

Jervis Forum Review 168: Givens on Lebovic, State of Silence The messy history of the US secrecy regime—its legal peregrinations, frequent oversteps, and steady expansion over the last century into an unwieldy labyrinth of various statutes, executive orders, and bureaucratic practices—shines a…

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-26 Martin Senn and Carmen Wunderlich, eds. “The Complexity of Nuclear (Dis)Ordering” “What is the nuclear order; what role does complexity play in strengthening or weakening this order” –Colleen Larkin wp.me/p2Insd-7HG

Episode 6 of the Frontiers of International Security (FOIS) podcast on “Causes of War,” with Erik Gartzke, University of California, San Diego, is available here: youtube.com/watch?v=MOcf...

FOIS Ep. 6: “Causes of War” with Erik Gartzke H-Diplo and the Jervis Forum are pleased to release Episode 6 of our podcast series, Frontiers of International Security (FOIS). In this episode, host Joe Parent talks about Causes of War with Erik Gartzke, University of California, San Diego: FOIS Ep.…

Jervis Forum Review 167: Latif on Lopes, The Self-Deception Trap  The title of Carlos Lopes’s book is provocative. It arrives at a critical time in Europe-Africa relations, as traditional aid frameworks expire and new partnerships struggle to emerge from colonial shadows. Drawing on his experience…

Jervis Forum Review 166: Beeler on Lambert, No More Napoleons For more than four decades Andrew Lambert, John Knox Laughton Professor of Naval History in the War Studies Department of Kings College, has been challenging and overturning many of the presumed verities regarding the nineteenth century…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-25 on Shirk, Making War on the World Is the modern nation-state waning in significance or durably cementing itself as the dominant mode of political organization? This question is at the heart of Making War on the World: How Transnational Violence Reshapes Global Order,…

Jervis Forum Review 165: Bell on Edelstein, The Revolution to Come Dan Edelstein has written a truly important work of history—in my view, one of the most important of the decade. On one level, it is the most complete and persuasive history we have of the concept of “revolution,” across the sweep…

FOIS Ep. 5: “The Future of Warfare” with Christopher J. Fettweis H-Diplo and the Jervis Forum are pleased to release Episode 5 of our podcast series, Frontiers of International Security (FOIS). In this episode, host Joe Parent talks about The Future of War with Christopher J. Fettweis, Tulane…

Article Review 188 Kjølv Egeland’s “The ‘Cosmic Bluff’ Revisited: Extended Nuclear Deterrence in the US–Norway Alliance” “interrogates the widely held belief that smaller states seek a nuclear patron when facing potentially existential military threats” –Konstantin Schendzielorz wp.me/p2Insd-7Gx

Jervis Forum Article Review 188: Schendzielorz on Egeland, “The ‘Cosmic Bluff’ Revisited” In “The ‘Cosmic Bluff’ Revisited” (2025), Kjølv Egeland offers a compelling reassessment of the core assumptions underpinning extended nuclear deterrence (END), the so-called nuclear umbrella. Focusing on…

The Jervis Forum Review 164 Matthieu Grandpierron’s Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline “wars...can be justified on basis of a nation’s global mission...if the mission is part of a historical master-narrative.” –Andreas Leutzsch wp.me/p2Insd-7Gs

Jervis Forum Review 164: Leutzsch on Grandpierron, Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War Matthieu Grandpierron’s Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline deals with the theoretical development and empirical verification of the concept of…

H-Diplo Article Review 1259 Christina Schwenkel's “Development through Dispossession: Coffee as Mutual Aid between Vietnam and East Germany” “a postcolonial critique of the continued one-sidedness of the scholarly literature on the Cold War struggle” –Ken MacLean hdiplo.org/to/AR1259

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-24 Osamah F. Khalil’s A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden “Under...Donald Trump, the lines between the war on drugs and the war on terror have become increasingly indistinguishable” –Henry Richard Maar III wp.me/p2Insd-7GK

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-24 on Khalil, A World of Enemies Under the second administration of Donald Trump, the lines between the war on drugs and the war on terror have become increasingly indistinguishable. This is perhaps most noticeable in the administration’s 2025 National Security…

FOIS Ep. 4: “The One about Sovereignty” with Bridget Coggins H-Diplo and the Jervis Forum are pleased to release Episode 4 of our podcast series, Frontiers of International Security (FOIS). In this episode, host Joe Parent talks about Sovereignty with Bridget Coggins, University of California,…

Episode 4 of the Frontiers of International Security (FOIS) podcast on “The One about Sovereignty,” with Bridget Coggins, University of California, Santa Barbara, is available here: youtube.com/watch?v=IKtJ...

The Jervis Forum Review 163 Gëzim Visoka’s The Derecognition of States “builds an inductive theory of state derecognition that sees it as a highly unstable political practice shaped by geopolitical conditions and the self-interest of the (de)recognizing state” –Michelle Murray wp.me/p2Insd-7G2

Jervis Forum Review 163: Murray on Visoka, The Derecognition of States The practice of diplomatic recognition is a cornerstone of international society.[1] Constitutive of international statehood, acts of recognition bestow sovereignty on an entity, entitle it to exclusive authority over its…

The Jervis Forum Review 162 Andrea Charron, Alexander Moens, and Stéphane Roussel, eds. The Legacy of 9/11: Views from North America “it was Trump, and not 9/11 or the COVID-19 pandemic, who most decisively altered the tenor and structure of Canada-US relations” –Jaap Verheul wp.me/p2Insd-7G0

The Jervis Forum Review 161 Sten Rynning’s NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance “delivers a subtle reminder that although the Europeans have often been exasperating partners, their loyalty as allies has endured tough tests” –Minna Ålander wp.me/p2Insd-7FW

Jervis Forum Review 162: Verheul on Charron, et al., eds. The Legacy of 9/11 The edited volume, The Legacy of 9/11: Views from North America, was prompted by the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Its central question is as simple as it is profound: Did 9/11…

Jervis Forum Review 161: Ålander on Rynning, NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine The endurance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has inspired scholars to examine the reasons for the transatlantic alliance’s success, particularly NATO’s ability to redefine its purpose and role after the…

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-23 Isaac Stanley-Becker’s Europe without Borders: A History “scholars and citizens more broadly need to be more critical of the kind of European integration process that we have built” –Anna Triandafyllidou wp.me/p2Insd-7FT