H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-47 on Francis Gavin, Wonder and Worry: Contemporary History in an Age of Uncertainty. wp.me/p2Insd-7PM

Jervis Forum Review 186: Messingschlager on Dikötter, Red Dawn Over China Frank Dikötter’s Red Dawn Over China begins with dust, not destiny. “Time grinds everything into dust,” he writes (xii), framing a preface about archival survival, political forgetting, and the later construction of…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-45 on Spruyt, The World Imagined The traditional foundations of international order are undergoing fundamental changes, wrought simultaneously by American unilateralism, the rise of… https://issforum.org/policy/jervis-forum-roundtable-17-45-on-spruyt-the-world-imagined

H-Diplo Review 662 Erin Redihan reviews Tatiana Vagramenko and Nadezhda Beliakova, eds., _The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR_. Lexington Books, 2025. hdiplo.org/to/R662

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-44 on Egeland, The Struggle for Abolition In the fall of 2025, President Donald J. Trump announced that the United States would return to nuclear testing....

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-43 on Wyne, America’s Great-Power Opportunity Ali Wyne’s America’s Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing US Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition…...

H-Diplo Review 661: Margaret Crosby reviews Michael Carley, _Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies Against Hitler, 1930–1936_; Carley, _Stalin’s Failed Alliance: The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936–1939_; Carley, _Stalin’s Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939–1941_. hdiplo.org/to/R661

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-42 on Davy, Defrosting the Cold War and Beyond The historical record of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and its successor, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has been a mixed one. In general, scholars of Cold War…

"Chaos Unleashed: The Second Trump Administration and the Future of the Liberal International Order" "Trump’s Commercial Realism" by Randall L. Schweller. issforum.org/to/CU-4

H-Diplo Article Review 1264: Telepneva on Unfried, "Internationalism, Cooperation and Personal Entanglements between Cuba, the German Democratic Republic, and Angola in the Socialist World" hdiplo.org/to/AR1264

H-Diplo Review 660: Antonopoulos on Young, _Kissinger's Betrayal_ hdiplo.org/to/R660

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-41 on Kramer, The Fate of the Soviet Bloc’s Military Alliance The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991 marked the formal end of the Soviet Bloc’s principal military alliance and closed a central institutional chapter of the Cold War in Europe. Yet the alliance’s rapid…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-40 on Schramm, _Why Democracies Fight Dictators_ issforum.org/roundtables/...

Jervis Forum Review 185: Parker on Katz and Bohbot, While Israel Slept Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot have written the first detailed book account of the 2023 Hamas attack against Israel and particularly why Israel let down its defenses.[1] They argue that the Israeli mistakes took place on many…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-39 on Walker, States-in-Waiting On 14 August 2025, a range of student, church, religious, and other organizations representing the Naga community in India celebrated the 78th anniversary of the Naga state’s declaration of independence on 15 August 1947. The date passed…

Jervis Forum Review 184: Hartung on Youngs, Feminist International Relations through a Technospatial Lens In Feminist International Relations through a Technospatial Lens: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Gillian Youngs provides a compelling case for taking a feminist interdisciplinary approach to…

Jervis Forum Article Review 196: Gray on Bennewitz and Müller, “West Germany, Guatemala, and the Transnational Dynamics of Cold War Police Assistance” issforum.org/articlerevie...

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-38 Michael David-Fox's Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule wp.me/p2Insd-7Nk

Jervis Forum Article Review 194: Baylis on Salmon and Smith, eds., “Official History” This Special Issue of Diplomacy and Statecraft provides an interesting and important contemporary contribution to the debates and controversies in the historiography of UK official history. It is the first of two…

FOIS Ep. 10: Hegemony with Joshua Byun H-Diplo and the Jervis Forum are pleased to release Episode 10 of our podcast series, Frontiers of International Security (FOIS). In this episode, host Joe Parent talks about hegemony with Joshua Byun, Boston University. The FOIS YouTube channel can be found…

Jervis Forum Policy Series: Populism, Alliance Resilience, and the Future of Global Order The contemporary electoral successes of populist leaders, most notably Donald Trump in the United States, have strained long-standing international alliances and institutions in ways not seen since the early…

Jervis Forum Review 183: Houser on Ndahangwapo, Defending the Investment In June of 2025, the drive from Northern Namibia to Swakopmund looked a little different than it has in past years. What are normally bare, fairly uncrowded roads were undergoing a massive overhaul. Construction vehicles with…

Jervis Forum Article Review 193: Jerslid on Fujisawa, “Soviet Aid and the Mongolian Economy” Jun Fujisawa uses the example of Mongolia within the Council of Mutual Economic Aid (CMEA) to pose excellent questions about small states in the socialist world and their efforts to counter Soviet…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-37 on Ingleson, Made in China The term “Made in China” has taken on many forms in the last few decades. The seemingly simple statement identifying the manufacturing origin of an item has been a source of pride, consternation, confusion, or humor, depending on the…

Learning the Scholar’s Craft: Scholarship by Accident I arrived on the fringes of academia by accident after a career in journalism. Before embarking on that I spent a year teaching English at the Italian Naval Academy in Livorno (Leghorn). My history course at Oxford had included a voluntary…

H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Review 182: Johnson on Turner, Lessons in Diplomacy Diplomats and politicians have long been keen to make sure that their explanation of the international events they were involved with during their careers were a matter of public record. In some cases, they try to set the…

Jervis Forum Article Review 192: Brennan on Savranskaya and Blanton, eds., “The Long Telegram of the 1990s” After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the fall of 1991, Russia, under the leadership of President Boris Yeltsin, entered its second experiment in liberal democracy, the first being the…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-36 on Heuser, Flawed Strategy It is a great pleasure to add this short introduction to a collection of six sparky essays by leading scholars who have responded forcefully to the battle ensign that Beatrice Heuser hoisted in her book, Flawed Strategy: Why Smart Leaders…

Jervis Forum Tribute to the Life and Legacy of Marshall D. Shulman I first met Marshall Shulman when I was a sophomore in college. Well, sort of. In the fall of 1960 I read a review of his in the New York Times.[1] Amidst the day’s dominant hardline, single-minded view of the Soviet threat, his…

Jervis Forum Review 181: Mall on Nasser, “‘To Defend the Peace of Asia’” Historians of Asia are increasingly investigating modern inter-Asian ties that drew on pan-national solidarities, both during the era of Western colonialism, and following the establishment of independent nation-states on the…

Jervis Forum Review 180: Turner on Standfield, The Politics of Women, Peace, and Security in UN Mediation “Women can’t win” (152). That is the simple but effective message conveyed by Catriona Stanfield’s in-depth examination of the way the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has been…

FOIS Ep. 9: Energy with Erik Voeten H-Diplo and the Jervis Forum are pleased to release Episode 9 of our podcast series, Frontiers of International Security (FOIS). In this episode, host Joe Parent talks about Energy with Erik Voeten, Georgetown University. The FOIS YouTube channel can be found at…

Jervis Forum Chaos Unleashed Policy Series: “America First” in the Second Trump Administration How wrong can one be? In my contribution to the second volume in this series, I questioned the extent to which US foreign policy was determined by individual presidents, and also how much the coming into…

Jervis Forum Roundtabl 17-35 on Weiner, The Mission What is the proper role of an intelligence agency in a democracy? What responsibilities do policymakers have to give intelligence agencies the direction they need to fill that role? These questions drive Tim Weiner’s The Mission: The CIA in the…

New FOIS Episodes with Tanisha Fazal and Ron Krebs H-Diplo and the Jervis Forum are pleased to release two new episodes of our podcast series, Frontiers of International Security (FOIS). In Episode 7, host Joe Parent talks about Change with Tanisha M. Fazal. In Episode 8, host Joe Parent talks…

Jervis Forum Article Review 191: Pierre on Badel, “‘Auxiliary’ Jobs?” The scholarship of Laurence Badel focuses on modern diplomatic practices, women’s roles in diplomacy and international relations, and the relationships between diplomacy, economic actors, and European integration, while also…

Jervis Forum Review 179: Genini on Nychyk, Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU At a time of mounting geopolitical instability and renewed power politics, Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014–2015 stands out as a timely and incisive…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-34 on Haun, Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War Theoretical discussions of strategic bombardment—or strategic attack in current US Air Force doctrine—have from its inception consistently dominated airpower scholarship and theory. Prior to World War II, only two airmen…

Jervis Forum Review 178: Bartoux on Pelopidas, ed., Nuclear France Historians of the nuclear age face a significant challenge in drawing lessons from the past. The absence of nuclear war to date has, thankfully, limited the field of empirical evidence about the effects of deterrence. However, this…

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:…