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RJISSF Roundtable on Alice Hunt Friend’s Mightier Than the Sword

On November 24, the Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum (RJISSF) published a roundtable on Alice Hunt Friend’s Mightier Than the Sword: Civilian Control of the Military and the Revitalization of Democracy (Stanford University Press, 2024). Risa Brooks, Polina Beliakova, Sam Brannen, Carrie A. Lee, Theo Milonopoulos, Heidi A. Urban, and Alice Hunt Friend took […]

H-Diplo Authors in Conversation on Greg Barnhisel’s Code Name Puritan and Elyse Graham’s Book and Dagger

On November 21, H-Diplo published an Authors in Conversation piece on Greg Barnhisel’s Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power (University of Chicago Press, 2024) and Elyse Graham’s Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II (Ecco, 2024). Elyse Graham […]

Director Elizabeth Saunders in Special Issue of International Organization

On November 20, Saltzman Institute Director Elizabeth Saunders had a co-authored article published in a special issue of International Organization on “The Future of Global Governance and World Order” (Volume 79 Issue S1). The article is titled, “The Unconstrained Future of World Order: The Assault on Democratic Constraint and Implications for US Global Leadership,” and is available online here. 

H-Diplo Review of Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui’s The Making of a Global FIFA

On November 19, H-Diplo published a review of Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui’s The Making of a Global FIFA: Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950–1974 (De Gruyter, 2023). Christos Kassimeris of the European University Cyprus authored the review. The review can be found here.

Jervis Forum Roundtable Review Featuring Intro from Jack Snyder

On November 17, The Jervis Forum published a Roundtable Review of Tyler Jost’s book, Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation (Cambridge University Press, 2024). The review features an introduction by Saltzman Institute member Jack Snyder, which traces connections to the scholarship of former Institute Director Warner Schilling and our current Director Elizabeth Saunders. You can read the review […]

RJISSF Roundtable on Tyler Jost’s Bureaucracies at War

On November 17, The Jervis Forum published a roundtable on Tyler Jost’s Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Jack Snyder, Sarah E. Croco, Todd H. Hall, Marika Landau-Wells, Yeling Tan, and Tyler Jost took part in the discussion. The roundtable is available here. 

H-Diplo Article Review of Jan Záhořík’s “Shifting between Pragmatism and Ideology”

On November 7, H-Diplo published an article review of Jan Záhořík’s “Shifting between Pragmatism and Ideology: Communist Czechoslovakia and Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia during the Cold War, 1955–1974” (Journal of Cold War Studies 26:1 [Winter 2024]: 5–28). Solomon Getahun of Central Michigan University authored the review. The review can be found here.

H-Diplo Review of Jean-Jacques Matignon’s Les 55 jours de Pékin

On November 6, H-Diplo published a review of Jean-Jacques Matignon’s Les 55 jours de Pékin: Journal d’un médecin au siège des légations, 28 mai–18 août 1900, edited by Juliette Bourdin (Jean-Jacques Wuillaume, 2022). Iside Costantini of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle authored the review. The review can be found here.

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