The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-15 Max Boot’s Reagan: His Life and Legacy wp.me/p2Insd-7xE “it was Reagan’s embrace of the Christian right and the white backlash to civil rights that helped pave the way for Trump’s populist movement” –Henry Richard Maar III

Article Review 1251 Jan Záhořík’s “Shifting between Pragmatism and Ideology: Communist Czechoslovakia and Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia during the Cold War, 1955–1974” “reveals the existence of loopholes for maneuverability within the Socialist-bloc countries” –Solomon Getahun hdiplo.org/to/AR1251

H-Diplo Review 647 Jean-Jacques Matignon Les 55 jours de Pékin: Journal d’un médecin au siège des légations, 28 mai–18 août 1900 “the Boxer rebellion was...a protest against foreign invasion and missionaries because advantages had been given to the missions” –Iside Costantini hdiplo.org/to/R647

H-Diplo Review 646 David T. Byrne’s James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography “will help connect Burnham’s philosophy with the United States’ post-World War II-era political philosophy…[and] those who support current US President Donald Trump” –Seth Offenbach hdiplo.org/to/R646

H-Diplo Article Review 1250 David I. Goldman’s “The Autobahn Crises of 1963: The US Military and the Last Major Cold War Showdowns over Berlin” “anyone who is interested in the history of Berlin as a Cold War borderland...will benefit from reading it” –Adam R. Seipp hdiplo.org/to/AR1250

The Jervis Effect: The Scholarship and Legacy of Robert Jervis, edited by Richard H. Immerman, Stacie E. Goddard, and Diane N. Labrosse Find it here: cup.columbia.edu/book/the-jer...

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-14 Douglas Porch’s Defeat and Division: France at War 1939–1942 and Resistance and Liberation: France at War 1942–1945 “brilliant addition to World War II military history” –Deborah Bauer wp.me/p2Insd-7xq

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-13 Donald Stoker’s Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present “a critique of both American policymakers...[and] American scholars in their efforts to employ the concept of grand strategy” –Jeremy Friedman wp.me/p2Insd-7xg

The Jervis Forum Review 146 Natasha Piano’s Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science “a crucial read for future theorists of democracy” –Robert P. Jackson wp.me/p2Insd-7x4

The Jervis Forum Review 145 Paul W. Schroeder’s America’s Fatal Leap, 1991–2016 “makes it easy to understand why so many of those who knew him regarded him not only with great respect but also with affection” –John A. Thompson wp.me/p2Insd-7wW

Article Review 1249 Giles Scott-Smith’s “‘Of the Utmost Importance for the Survival of Mankind’: The Alerdinck Foundation, the Media, and Citizen Diplomacy to End the Cold War, 1984–1992” “worthwhile to look at the way non-state actors advocated for change” –Rósa Magnúsdóttir hdiplo.org/to/AR1249

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-12 Liliane Stadler’s Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992 “challenges the view of neutrality as static, showing how Switzerland adapted this policy in order to maintain relevance” –Sandra Bott wp.me/p2Insd-7xa

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-11 Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström, and Malin Åkebo, eds.' Relational Peace Practices “Peace should not be characterized as stagnation. Social change can be peaceful and aided by constructive conflict.” –Louis Kriesberg wp.me/p2Insd-7wP

H-Diplo Review 645 Paolo Fonzi, Sabine Rutar, and Xavier Bougarel, eds.’ Food, Scarcity and Power in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War “Food...as a means of propaganda, as a symbol of dominance and control, and a tool of revolution and empire building” –Gaj Trifković hdiplo.org/to/R645

The Jervis Forum Review 144 Tehila Sasson’s The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire "challenges the faith in the market, self-employment, and small-scale financialization solutions as a path forward for developing nations” –John Shields wp.me/p2Insd-7wz

The Jervis Forum Article Review 185 Wang Chenyi’s “Mao’s Cambodian Legacy: An ‘Ideological Victory’ and a Strategic Failure” Why did the CCP support "the Pol Pot regime rhetorically and materially, even as it murdered...hundreds of thousands of Cambodian Chinese?” –Matthew Galway wp.me/p2Insd-7ws

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-5 Alexis Peri’s Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women “sometimes power can emanate from unexpected places.” –Rachel Applebaum hdiplo.org/to/RT27-5

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-9 Kathleen E. Powers’s Nationalisms in International Politics “challenges the conventional wisdom about nationalism and supranationalism by demonstrating that not all nationalisms and supranationalisms are the same.” –Jiyoung Ko wp.me/p2Insd-7wj

Jervis Forum Article Review 184 Nicholas D. Anderson’s “Push and Pull on the Periphery: Inadvertent Expansion in World Politics” “uses the presence of globally connected telegraph stations as an indicator of central government control over the periphery.” –Andrew Payne wp.me/p2Insd-7wa

Article Review 1248 Yinan He’s “China’s Cultural Revolution and Mao’s External Threat Inflation: Crushing Soviet-Style Capitalist Restoration, 1966–1969” “shows the relationship between propaganda offensives...[and] the unfolding of the Cultural Revolution” –Austin Jersild hdiplo.org/to/AR1248

H-Diplo Review 644 Suzy Kim’s Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War “Korean women and their international counterparts risked ostracism, imprisonment, and even their lives to demand peace and justice.” –Markus Bell hdiplo.org/to/R644

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-4 Emily Conroy-Krutz’s Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations “important consequences for how we talk about “religion and foreign policy” and Christianity’s relationship to the state today” –Cara Lea Burnidge hdiplo.org/to/RT27-4

Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-8 Fawaz A. Gerges’ What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East “masterfully shows how the Middle East has been repeatedly thwarted in its attempts at transformation.” –May Darwich wp.me/p2Insd-7vW

H-Diplo Review 643 Nick Bunker In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950 When “Gallup pollsters asked...Americans [about] “the main problem which will be discussed” in the upcoming midterm elections…respondents focused on...economy and foreign policy"–Christopher Elias hdiplo.org/to/R643

Review 143 Steven M. Gillon Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush Trump's presidency will be a "record for the longest period that America has been led by presidents who did not serve in war”–John Nagl wp.me/p2Insd-7vJ

Article Review 183 Diplomatic Departures: Negotiating Britain’s International Outreach in the Contemporary World “relevance [with] diverging views between the Global North and South over who is the instigator in both the Russian-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars” –Daniel Feather wp.me/p2Insd-7vB

Roundtable Review 17-7 Lauren Benton’s They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence “Imperial powers permitted conquest if it prevented global war. Peace often meant war, at least on a liminal scale. The modern world...cannot, escape imperial violence.” –Michael Brenes wp.me/p2Insd-7vt

Roundtable Review 17-6 Alexander B. Downes’ Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong “makes one of its most important contributions by putting the regime-change failures Iraq and Afghanistan in broader comparative and historical context” –Erica De Bruin wp.me/p2Insd-7vj

H-Diplo Review 642 Joseph Horowitz’s The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War “highlights the value of international music exchanges for promoting recognition of the common humanity of peoples in different countries” –David S. Foglesong hdiplo.org/to/R642

Jervis Forum Article Review 182 Aviva Guttmann’s “Covert Diplomacy to Overcome a Crisis: West German and Israeli Intelligence after the Munich Olympics Attack” “[many claimed] that had Israel been allowed to manage the situation, it would have ended differently” –Ronit Berger Hobson wp.me/p2Insd-7vb

Jervis Forum Article Review 181 James Stocker’s "Beginning of Winter: The George H.W. Bush Administration, the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, and the Emergence of the Post–Cold War World" “illustrates the Armenian lobby’s effectiveness in shaping US policy” –Richard Balzano wp.me/p2Insd-7v2

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-3 Jeffrey Crean’s The Fear of Chinese Power: An International History “argues that fears of China over the past 140 years have been based on racialized stereotypes of the Chinese” –Zach Fredman hdiplo.org/to/RT27-3

Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-5 David V. Gioe and Michael J. Morell's “Spy and Tell: The Promise and Peril of Disclosing Intelligence for Strategic Advantage” “under a new presidential administration…this article warrants renewed attention” – Melissa Graves wp.me/p2Insd-7uR

Jervis Forum Review 142 Caroline Winterer’s How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America “as Americans “dug little holes of time” across the continent, they enlarged certain political projects, using deep time to defend slavery and Indian removal” –Ryan Irwin wp.me/p2Insd-7uK

H-Diplo Review 641 Ross Melnick’s Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World “explores the relationships between movies and empire” –Oliver Boyd-Barrett hdiplo.org/to/R641

Jervis Forum Article Review 180 Mark Kramer’s “Borders, States, and Armed Conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia Since 1945: The Moral Hazard of Great-Power Encroachments” “focuses on Russia’s aggressive foreign policy” –Oksana Ermolaeva wp.me/p2Insd-7uF

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-2 Mateo Jarquín: The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History “incentive to other historians to consider whether other Latin American events of the Cold War…[could] be re-imagined as Latin American global diplomatic events.” –Alan McPherson hdiplo.org/to/RT27-2

Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-4 Brian C. H. Fong’s US-China Rivalry: Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific “outlines multiple scenarios for the future of US-China relations based on different systemic structures” –Yuan-kang Wang wp.me/p2Insd-7ud

Article Review 179 Ronald Popp’s Predicting Trouble: Anticipating Foreign Crises and Planning for Contingencies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations Highlights “the prioritization of immediate policy implementation over long-term contingency planning” –Mary Ann Heiss wp.me/p2Insd-7ux

H-Diplo Review 640 Matthew K. Shannon’s Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century “Iranian nationalism emerged in many forms during the mid-twentieth century long before the Islamic revolution” –Tom Smith hdiplo.org/to/R640

Jervis Forum Article Review 178 Andrew Kenealy's The Velvet Revolution’s Best Supporting Actors: Shirley Temple Black and U.S. Embassy Prague, 1989 “counters...periodically recurring waves of conspiracy theories” –Pavel Mücke wp.me/p2Insd-7uq

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-3 Roger D. Petersen’s Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention wp.me/p2Insd-7u3 “counterinsurgency and military intervention will not go away, despite any US desire to turn away from it” –Jacqueline L. Hazelton

Roundtable Review 17-2 Brian D. Blankenship’s The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics “the risk to the United States of putting too much pressure on its allies without reassuring them—the United States loses its influence over them"–Michaela Mattes wp.me/p2Insd-7tU

RJISSF Review 141 Aggie Hirst’s Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military “players of war games are themselves being fundamentally changed by the games as they play them." –Nina Kollars wp.me/p2Insd-7ty

RJISSF Review 140 David E. Sanger’s New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West “convincingly links the developments in Taiwan to those in Ukraine.” –Anna Calori wp.me/p2Insd-7tu

RJISSF Article Review 177 Rong Wei and Tim Summers’ The Chinese Government’s Negotiating Strategy Over the Future of Hong Kong: Revisiting the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration “has ramifications which continue to affect present-day Hong Kong” –Reed Chervin wp.me/p2Insd-7tq

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-1 Antony G Hopkins’ Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931 “provides major revisions to our understanding of the historiography of colonial capitalism and the fortunes of African merchants” –Emmanuel K. Akyeampong hdiplo.org/to/RT27-1

RJISSF Article Review 176: Robin E. Möser’s ‘A Fly in the Ointment’: Apartheid South Africa’s Transnational Nuclear Network during the Cold War, 1953-1976 wp.me/p2Insd-7tf

Article Review 639: Jeffrey Ahlman’s Ghana: A Political and Social History hdiplo.org/to/R639

RJISSF Review 139: Peter Heather’s and John Rapley’s Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West wp.me/p2Insd-7t7