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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

Mark Bradley and Marilyn Young, “Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars” (Oxford UP, 2008)
2011/3/14

What to think about the Vietnam War? A righteous struggle against global Communist tyranny? An episo

Amanda Podany, “Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East” (Oxford UP, 2010)
2010/8/19

I have a (much beloved) colleague who calls all history about things before AD 1900 “that old stuff.

Julian E. Zelizer, “Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security From WWII to the War on Terrorism” (Basic Books, 2010)
2010/1/14

Historians are by their nature public intellectuals because they are intellectuals who write about,

Michaela Hoenicke, “Know Your Enemy: American Debate on Nazism, 1933-1945” (Cambridge UP, 2009)
2009/11/29

To Americans, Hitler et al. were a confusing bunch. The National Socialists were Germans, and German

James Mann, “The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War” (Viking, 2009)
2009/3/20

Ronald Reagan was a odd fellow. Nobody seems to know what to make of him. He started as a Democrat a

Robert Hendershot, “Family Spats: Perception, Illusion and Sentimentality in the Anglo-American Special Relationship” (VDM, 2009)
2009/3/13

Gordon Brown, the British PM, came calling to Washington recently. He jumped the pond, of course, to

Howard Jones, “The Bay of Pigs” (Oxford UP, 2008)
2008/8/30

There is just something about Fidel Castro that American presidents don’t like very much. Maybe it’s