H-Diplo Review 653 Oz Frankel’s Coca Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets: Israel in the American Orbit, 1967–1973 “shifts the focus away from binary framings of Americanization” –Jakobi Williams hdiplo.org/to/R653

JF Review 155 Thomas Crosbie The Political Army: The Military, Democracy, and Strategic Communication in the Twenty-First Century “modern challenges to civilian-military relations stem...from... strategic manipulation of military legitimacy in democratic politics.” –Jerry E. Landrum wp.me/p2Insd-7Ei

Jervis Forum Review 155: Landrum on Crosbie, The Political Army In The Political Army: The Military, Democracy, and Strategic Communication in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Crosbie offers a penetrating and empirically grounded analysis of the increasing entanglement between military…

Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-21 Richard Aldous and Nigel Ashton, eds. “David Reynolds: Studies in Competitive Cooperation” “paints a picture of…special Anglo-American relations as being sustained by a Cold War imperative.” –Tia Culley wp.me/p2Insd-7Ec

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-21 on Aldous and Ashton, eds., “David Reynolds” It is a distinct pleasure for me to introduce this forum on Diplomacy & Statecraft’s special issue in honor of David Reynolds. Presented to him by a group of his former doctoral students, it consists of a Festschrift that…

Jervis Forum Article Review 186 Thomas Stock’s “North Korea in the Twilight of Communism: Ideological Transformation and International Relations during the Cold War’s Final Decade” “a compelling reinterpretation of North Korea’s ideological trajectory in the 1980s.” –Junhyoung Lee wp.me/p2Insd-7DT

Jervis Forum Article Review 186: Lee on Stock, “North Korea in the Twilight of Communism” Thomas Stock’s article, “North Korea in the Twilight of Communism: Ideological Transformation and International Relations during the Cold War’s Final Decade,” offers a compelling reinterpretation of North…

The Jervis Forum Review 154 Van Jackson’s Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace “reminds readers how rare and precious this past half-century of relative peace in the world’s most populous zone has been” –Jonathan R. Hunt wp.me/p2Insd-7DQ

Review 154 Van Jackson, Pacific Power Paradox In the memorably titled book, A Desert Named Peace, Benjamin Claude Brower unearths the wellsprings of invasion, insurgency, and reprisal in the colonial Sahara. In Pacific Peace Paradox, Van Jackson introduces his readers to the idea of a “Pacific…

Review 652 Yihong Pan’s Not Just a Man’s War: Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45 “reviews the literature and visual media that have memorialized the struggles, trauma, and the incredible feats of survival of Chinese women” –Collin Rusneac hdiplo.org/to/R652

JF Roundtable Review 17-20 Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s Allan Pinkerton: America’s Legendary Detective and the Birth of Private Security “Scottish traditions of the informer were transformed into the distinctly American form of threat exaggeration...and political secrecy.” –Paul O’Hara wp.me/p2Insd-7DO

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-20 on Jeffreys-Jones, Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton is mostly known as a prominent private detective in the United States. What a pleasure it is to have Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s latest book so more can be learned about this famous Scottish immigrant who came to the US;…

The Jervis Forum Review 153 Michael P.M. Finch’s Making Makers: The Past, the Present, & the Study of War “offers a return to the basics in our understanding of strategy and its evolution since the end of World War II.” –Nathaniel L. Moir wp.me/p2Insd-7DF

Jervis Forum Review 153: Moir on Finch,Making Makers In late February 2025, Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, spoke to the United Nations General Assembly. Sikorski explained that We live in turbulent times. After a short break from history, that some of us enjoyed, it has again caught…

H-Diplo AR 1256 Steven Crawford Grundy’s “Mission Impossible: Explaining the Failure of Ho Chi Minh’s Mediation Efforts Inside the Marxist-Leninist World, 1960–1961” “explores Hồ Chí Minh’s attempts...to act as a mediator between the [PRC] and the Soviet Union”–Martin Grossheim hdiplo.org/to/AR1256

JF Review 152 Richard Overy’s Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan “Cruelty can be effective; it can never be just. Never is it necessary, but war heightens its allure. That’s because all sides suffer in war, and suffering fuels revenge.” –Zachary Shore wp.me/p2Insd-7Dv

Roundtable Review 17-19 Mara E. Karlin’s The Inheritance: America’s Military After Two Decades of War “captures a specific frustration among military officers surrounding the “thank you for your service” sentiment that was in vogue during...the post-9/11 wars.” –Katherine Kuzminski wp.me/p2Insd-7Dl

The Jervis Forum Review 151 Jill Kastner and William H. Wohlforth’s A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion “a significant correction to the perception that Russia’s operations in 2016 were somehow unique” –Stacie Goddard wp.me/p2Insd-7D7

Article Review 1255 Mitchell Lerner’s “Loving America but Loving Korea More: The Evolution of an Organization, a Field, and a Historian” “insightful observations surely of interest to the Korea-watcher but also...well beyond the confines of the Korean peninsula” –Kirk W. Larsen hdiplo.org/to/AR1255

The Jervis Forum Review 150 Sean Brennan’s Warren Austin, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and the Cold War at the United Nations, 1947–1960 “The crafting and implementation of US foreign policy at the UN are poorly understood processes…Brennan puts them under the microscope” –Dexter Fergie wp.me/p2Insd-7D5

H-Diplo Article Review 1254 Nikolay Erofeev: “Complementary Assistance: Multilateral Exchanges between the Soviet Union, China and Eastern European Countries in Cold War Mongolia” “valuable insights into Mongolia’s economic development...[and] relations with China” –Jun Fujisawa hdiplo.org/to/AR1254

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-18 Margaret Peacock’s Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East “a tremendous book with which to think about radio, the power of language and discourse, and what it means for our world today.” –Benjamin V. Allison wp.me/p2Insd-7CX

The Jervis Forum Review 149 Andrew R. Hom’s International Relations and the Problem of Time “the Problem of Time is both ubiquitous and…can bind together a field that otherwise seems to always be remaking itself into more specialized fragments” –Brent J. Steele wp.me/p2Insd-7CT

H-Diplo Article Review 1253 Amna Qayyum’s “‘The Ghost of Comilla’: Authoritarian Biopolitics and Global Development in Rural East Pakistan” “bridges South Asian history, global history, development studies, and the histories of sexuality” –Lourens van Haaften hdiplo.org/to/AR1253

H-Diplo Review 651 Ang Cheng Guan’s The Third Indochina War: An International History “illuminates the history of this grim and tangled feud among the states of Indochina” –SR Joey Long hdiplo.org/to/R651

Ang Cheng Guan’s The Third Indochina War: An International History “illuminates the history of this grim and tangled feud among the states of Indochina” –SR Joey Long hdiplo.org/to/R651

JF Roundtable Review 17-17 Alice Hunt Friend’s Mightier Than the Sword: Civilian Control of the Military and the Revitalization of Democracy wp.me/p2Insd-7CJ “What institutional prerogatives or professional norms must be asserted to counterbalance...impulses?” –Theo Milonopoulos

H-Diplo Authors in Conversation Greg Barnhisel’s Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power and Elyse Graham’s Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II hdiplo.org/to/AiC-1

H-Diplo Review 650 David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, and Mark Dyreson’s Black Mercuries: African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games “an encyclopedia of African American Olympic participation” –Erin E. Redihan hdiplo.org/to/R650

H-Diplo Review 649 Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui’s The Making of a Global FIFA: Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950–1974 “FIFA [has] ... become an influential voice in international politics and economics.” –Christos Kassimeris hdiplo.org/to/R649

H-Diplo Article Review 1252 John Bernell White Jr.’s “Breaking the Strategic Glass: The Carter Administration and Oman, 1977–1980” “important...to understand how Carter worked to create a new security architecture in the Gulf after the collapse of the Shah” –Benjamin V. Allison hdiplo.org/to/AR1252

JF Roundtable Review 17-16 Tyler Jost’s Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation “a central puzzle of decisionmaking in the realm of war and peace: why do leaders choose to start wars they wind up losing at high cost with little or no payoff?” –Jack Snyder wp.me/p2Insd-7xZ

H-Diplo Review 648 Francesca Piana’s Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees in the Long Aftermath of the First World War “a complex story that defines a period of in betweenness: from war to peacetime; from empire to nation-states” –Doina Anca Cretu hdiplo.org/to/R648

JF Review 148 Paul Schroeder’s Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered “breaks with the majority of historians who believe that Germany’s restless, aggressive policy was perhaps the most important cause of World War I” –Thomas Parker wp.me/p2Insd-7xK

JF Review 147 Lucie Kadlecová’s Cyber Sovereignty: The Future of Governance in Cyberspace “countries may have to…allow for some genuine erosion of their authority and control…to reflect the limitations of any individual state’s control over the global internet” –Josephine Wolff wp.me/p2Insd-7xG

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

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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