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New Books in Diplomatic History

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

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Total: 987

If you are tired of reading the same, Washington-based, consensus, 'realist' and or 'neo-conservativ

Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Oxford University, one of the premi

Histories of banking and finance aren’t particularly well-known for being riveting, adventurous read

The study of Christianity, international relations, and the United States is going through something

A respected authority on 19th- and 20th-century Latin American and Caribbean History as well as a pa

In his book, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008), Pekka Hämäläinen refutes the traditi

The title of Guy Laron’s The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East (Yale University Press, 20

Although commonly regarded as one of the three or four greatest Presidents and certainly the greates

Human rights as a concern in U.S. foreign policy and international politics has been well-documented

In his new book, Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885 (Auckland U

There have been many histories and treatments of the Cold War, few however have the breath, range an

Most people know that slavery was foundational to the economic development of the United States in t

Today we talked with Nancy Mitchell about her book Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War, pu

As any scholar of the Vietnam War can tell you, the field doesn’t lack for study: it’s one of the mo

In this sweeping new biography, Colin G. Calloway, John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Na

In Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 201

Ji-Young Lee’s book investigates the changing nature of tribute relations during the Ming and High Q

Since 1945, the United States has lost every war it started. Why? A Vietnam War veteran, Tufts Unive

Counterinsurgency doctrine, the Vietnam War, and the vagaries of politics all come together in Max B

Daniel Bessner’s Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (Cornell U