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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

David A. Hollinger, “Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World and Changed America” (Princeton UP, 2017).
2018/4/6

David A. Hollinger‘s Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World and Changed Amer

Katrin Paehler, “The Third Reich’s Intelligence Service: The Career of Walter Schellenberg” (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
2018/4/6

Who was the spymaster of the Third Reich? How did Nazi ideology influence intelligence collection? K

William R. Polk, “Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North” (Yale UP, 2018)
2018/4/6

Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North (Yale Univers

Antony G. Hopkins, “American Empire: A Global History” (Princeton UP, 2018)
2018/3/19

In an expansive, engrossing, voluminously in depth analysis of the subject, Professor A. G. Hopkins,

David Narrett, “Adventurism and Empire” (UNC Press, 2015)
2018/2/23

In his new book, Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlan

Brian Jenkins, “Lord Lyons: A Diplomat in an Age of Nationalism and War” (McGill-Queens UP, 2014)
2018/2/8

Described upon his death in 1887 as the ideal diplomatist, Richard Lyons served Great Britain in a v

David Stevenson, “1917: War, Peace, and Revolution” (Oxford UP, 2018)
2018/1/22

In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018), David Stevenson examines a pivo

Hendrik Meijer, “Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
2018/1/18

As a United States senator in the 1930s and 1940s, Arthur Vandenberg was one of the leading Republic

Stephen G. Craft, “American Justice in Taiwan: The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy” (Kentucky UP, 2017)
2018/1/18

On May 23, 1957, US Army Sergeant Robert Reynolds was acquitted of murdering Chinese officer Liu Zir

Stewart Patrick, “The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World” (Brookings Institution Press, 2017)
2018/1/8

The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World (Brookings Institution Press, 2017) is an i

Herman Salton, “Dangerous Diplomacy: Bureaucracy, Power Politics and the Role of the UN Secretariat in Rwanda” (Oxford UP, 2017)
2018/1/8

I was in graduate school during Bosnia and Rwanda. Like everyone else, I watched the video footage a

David Head, “Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic” (U. Georgia Press, 2015)
2017/12/12

When the nations of Latin America fought for their independence in the early 19th century, they comm

Ricardo D. Salvatore, “Disciplinary Conquest: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945 (Duke UP, 2016)
2017/10/30

Ricardo D. Salvatore‘s new book, Disciplinary Conquest: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945 (D

Harry Bennett, “The Royal Navy in the Age of Austerity, 1919-1922: Naval and Foreign Policy under Lloyd George” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
2017/9/27

Great Britain’s victory in the First World War brought with it the competing challenges of defending

Dalia Muller, “Cuban Emigres and Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World (UNC Press, 2017)
2017/6/23

Cuba and Mexico have a long history of exchange and interaction. Cubans traveled to Mexico to work,

Julie Gottlieb, “‘Guilty Women’: Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain” (Palgrave Macmilan, 2015)
2017/5/18

Historically, foreign policy has been seen as a sphere shaped and determined by the concerns of men

Mark P. Bradley, “The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
2017/4/17

In his farewell address, President George Washington warned his fellow citizens of the dangers of wh

Daniel Immerwahr, “Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development” (Harvard UP, 2015)
2017/3/17

Modernization dominates development’s historiography. Historians characterize moments in development

Julie Wilhelmsen “Russia’s Securitization of Chechnya: How War Became Acceptable (Routledge, 2017)
2017/2/14

In Russia’s Securitization of Chechnya: How War Became Acceptable (Routledge, 2017), a study of the

Victor Taki, “Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire” (I.B. Taurus, 2016)
2016/12/14

Victor Taki’s Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire (I.B. Taurus, 2016) invite