H-Diplo, with the Jervis Forum

H-Diplo and the Jervis Forum are pleased to release Episode 11 of our podcast series, Frontiers of International Security (FOIS). In this episode, host Joe Parent talks about spheres of influence with Lindsey O'Rourke, Boston College: youtu.be/GPfWSgDoY7A

The Jervis Forum Article Review 195 Pete Millwood's “China’s Abandonment of Self-Reliance and Sino-American Opening before 1979” "how, and why, did China shift from a Maoist commitment to self-reliance that was marked by autarkic industrial policy and limited engagement with capitalist economies toward extensive imports of foreign science and technology?" -Wenting He wp.me/p2Insd-7N8 @PeteMillwood @WentingHe1103

The Jervis Forum Article Review 194 Patrick Salmon and Richard Smith, eds. “Official History: Writing the History of Military Operations and Intelligence” "provides an interesting and important contemporary contribution to the debates and controversies in the historiography of UK official history" -John Baylis wp.me/p2Insd-7N2

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-8 Brandon Bloch's Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy "takes on a difficult puzzle, one that has rarely been properly studied: how did Protestant elites make peace with liberal democracy?" -Udi Greenberg hdiplo.org/to/RT27-8 @BrandonBloch5

H-Diplo and the Jervis Forum are pleased to release Episode 10 of our podcast series, Frontiers of International Security (FOIS). Host Joe Parent talks about Hegemony with Joshua Byun, Boston University: youtube.com/watch?v=HTDuaW… The FOIS YouTube channel can be found at @JervisForum" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@JervisForum. @josh_byun

The Jervis Forum Policy Series – Chaos Unleashed Populism, Alliance Resilience, and the Future of Global Order "the fate of the liberal international order may not rest solely in the hands of national leaders, but in the adaptive strategies of the institutions they seek to control." -Allison Carnegie & Richard Clark wp.me/p2Insd-7MU @AllieCarnegie @ProfRickyClark

The Jervis Forum Review 183 Saima Nakuti Ndahangwapo's Defending the Investment: Rossing Uranium and the Business of Decolonization in Namibia "makes a compelling, and almost deterministic, case for uranium being the driving force behind Namibia’s status as Africa’s last colony." -Myra Houser wp.me/p2Insd-7MH

The Jervis Forum Article Review 193 Jun Fujisawa's “Soviet Aid and the Mongolian Economy: the Global South in CMEA, 1962–1991” "pose excellent questions about small states in the socialist world and their efforts to counter Soviet centralizing tendencies." -Austin Jersild wp.me/p2Insd-7ME

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-37 Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson's Made in China: When US China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade "Those who read these reviews...while surrounded by items bearing those three little words, “Made in China,” will have a clear path to better understanding why they are so ubiquitous." -Meredith Oyen wp.me/p2Insd-7Ms @lizingleson @MeredithOyen

Essay Series on Learning the Scholar’s Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars: “Scholarship by Accident” “I managed to learn the scholar’s craft...this was the result of the happy chance of moving to Oxford, the hospitality of St Antony’s, the opportunity to mingle with great scholars, write for academic journals, and emulate the scholars with whom I worked” -Richard Davy wp.me/p2Insd-7MA

The Jervis Forum Review 182 Leigh Turner's Lessons in Diplomacy: Politics, Power and Parties "what role, if any, can or should diplomats play in relationships between states in the twenty-first century...when robots and other forms of artificial intelligence appear to be making ever more strategic inroads into how the international system operates" -Gaynor Johnson wp.me/p2Insd-7Mg @RLeighTurner @gaynorhistorian

The Jervis Forum Article Review 192 Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton, eds. “The Long Telegram of the 1990s: ‘Whose Russia Is It Anyway: Towards a Policy of Benign Respect’” "since US and Russian relations are as bad now as they were in the darkest periods of the Cold War, it is worth exploring how we arrived at this sad destination." -Sean Brennan wp.me/p2Insd-7M2 @SeanBrennan1979

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-36 Beatrice Heuser's Flawed Strategy: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions "offers fresh insights into the underexplored psychological roots of modern grand strategic failures, tracing the cognitive biases that fuel both the complacency of liberal idealism and the escalation of security dilemmas when the liberal internationalist project breaks down." -D.G. Kim wp.me/p2Insd-7LS @BeatriceHeuser

The Jervis Forum Tribute to the Life and Legacy of Marshall D. Shulman “When looking at this world around us, both the declining condition of arms control and the ragged state of civility within the US and between it and other nations, I often ask myself, “what would Marshall do?”” –Gloria Duffy wp.me/p2Insd-7Ln

The Jervis Forum Review 181 Yasser Ali Nasser’s “‘To Defend the Peace of Asia’: The Chinese Peace Committee and Visions of Asian History, 1949–60” “demonstrates how Chinese engagements with the legacy of colonialism and its aftermath, after the establishment of the People’s Republic, extended beyond socialist solidarity.” –Shatrunjay Mall wp.me/p2Insd-7LJ

The Jervis Forum Review 180 Catriona Standfield’s The Politics of Women, Peace, and Security in UN Mediation “Women are expected to be able to transcend their political differences...[and] represent all women as well as promote the all-encompassing category of “women’s interests” through their participation.” –Catherine Turner wp.me/p2Insd-7LB @DrCTurner

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-7 Gaynor Johnson, ed. Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-Century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture “speaks effectively to larger themes in transatlantic studies. Looming largest of all are the...questions of whether the Anglo-American relationship can be called ‘special’ and whether it is in decline.” –Finn Pollard hdiplo.org/to/RT27-7 @gaynorhistorian @heresfinn

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: youtube.com/watch?v=AaPcFn… The FOIS YouTube channel can be found at @JervisForum" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@JervisForum.

The Jervis Forum Policy Series – Chaos Unleashed “America First” in the Second Trump Administration: An Historical Perspective “from being the principal architect of the post-World War II liberal international order, and its foremost upholder, the United States became both the most explicit critic and a violator of that order.” –John A. Thompson wp.me/p2Insd-7Lw

H-Diplo Review 659 Lea David’s A Victim’s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights “advancing a structuralist argument about how encounters with victims’ surviving possessions…set in motion an “emotional energy” that then can be used or misused in various ways as the surviving object moves from discovery to memorialization” –Jonathan Bach hdiplo.org/to/R659 @Lea__David