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New Books in Diplomatic History

Interviews with scholars of diplomacy, international relations, and geopolitics about their new book

Episodes

Total: 987

October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Mid

Americans frequently criticize US foreign policy for being overly costly and excessively militaristi

In his new book Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia (Cambridge Un

Since February 2022, a string of books have been published about the war in Ukraine but, for the mos

Jonathan Scott is one of the most original interpreters of the early modern world. How the Old World

Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century (UNC Press, 2023) off

Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the act

Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America's most consistently praised--and reviled

Many of our presumptions about the Panama Canal Zone are wrong; it was not carved out of uninhabited

Jeremy Yellen’s The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell

In Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908 (Syracuse University Press, 2023),

Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintaine

Huw Bennett is a Reader in International Relations at Cardiff Unviersity. He specializes in strategi

Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) - as the only permanent international court that add

The oil shock of 1973 changed everything. It brought the golden age of American and European economi

Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Knopf, 2023), a book ten ye

Security assistance has become the largest component of international peacebuilding and stabilisatio

Is the recent resurgence of military coups reshaping politics in sub-Saharan Africa? Is faith in mul

Michael W. Doyle's book Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War (Liveright, 2023) offers an urgent exa

Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge,