Forum on Contagion and War: Lessons from the First World War
John Vasquez’s book adds to the enormous mass of writings on the outbreak and spread of the First World War, with the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War having stimulated a further raft...
View ArticleArticle Review 138 on “The Sturdy Child vs. the Sword of Damocles: Nuclear...
With the advent of nuclear weapons came the question of how their very existence changed the way we conduct and think about warfare. Nearly seventy five years after their first (and, to date, only)...
View ArticleReview Essay 52 on Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in The Modern Age
These days, international relations (IR) and the study of war need more books that are big in ambition, asking important questions and providing sweeping answers. Unfortunately, the professional...
View ArticleRoundtable 12-13 on Peacekeeping in the Midst of War
Peacekeeping was born in 1948, in the midst of the American civil rights and anti-colonial movements. The basic thrust of the idea was to resolve violent conflict without resorting to violence. In...
View ArticleRoundtable 13-10 on Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and...
Samuel Moyn raises many questions in his new, provocative book, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War. The four reviews, by Anne Kornhauser, Jana K. Lipman, Tejasvi Nagaraja,...
View ArticleH-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable 14-7 on Barder, Global Race War: International...
“Theory” makes the world of the professors go ‘round. It is the gold ring on the dissertation-award, post-doc, tenure ladder, lead article, monograph, promotion, citation count endowed chair carousel....
View ArticleH-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable on Malkasian, The American War in Afghanistan &...
Just over 21 years ago, the United States invaded Afghanistan. Just over one year ago, the United States withdrew from Afghanistan. Understanding the two decades in between, which became by almost any...
View ArticleH-Diplo|RJISSF Review Essay 73: Threlkeld on Barnhart & Trager, The...
At the turn of the twentieth century, women suffragists in the United States and Britain argued that because women were more naturally pacifist than men, allowing them to vote would lead to greater...
View ArticleH-Diplo|RJISSF Commentary II-1: “Massacre in Israel: A Transformational...
H-Diplo|RJISSF Commentary Editor: Diane Labrosse | Production Editor: Christopher Ball 15 October 2023 | Vol. II: No. 1 “Massacre in Israel: A Transformational Moment, or More of the Same?”...
View ArticleH-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-10 on Chan, Rumbles of Thunder
With the recent return of great-power politics, we are also seeing a resurrection of power transition, a realist theory in international relations.[1] Positing an inevitable war between the reigning...
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