Recent Scholarship
International Relations
Bing, Albert, “kiss: Keep It Simple, Stupid! Critical Observations of the Croatian American Intellectuals during the Establishment of Political Relations between Croatia and the United States, 1990–1992,” Review of Croatian History (Zagreb), 2 (2007), 179–205.
Brands, Hal, “Economic Development and the Contours of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Nixon Administration’s Approach to Latin America, 1969–1974,” Peace & Change, 33 (April 2008), 243–73.
Brands, Hal, “Third World Politics in an Age of Global Turmoil: The Latin American Challenge to U.S. and Western Hegemony, 1965–1975,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Jan. 2008), 105–38.
Buckaloo, Derek, “The Cold War and Beyond: The Persistent, Puzzling Presence of the ‘Vietnam Syndrome,’” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 233–52.
Cavanaugh, Jeffrey M., “From the ‘Red Juggernaut’ to Iraqi wmd: Threat Inflation and How It Succeeds in the United States,” Political Science Quarterly, 122 (Winter 2007-2008), 555–84.
Costigliola, Frank, “The ‘Invisible Wall’: Personal and Cultural Origins of the Cold War,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 190–213.
Donoghue, Michael E., “Rape and Murder in the Canal Zone: Cultural Conflict and the U.S. Military Presence in Panama, 1955–56,” in Decentering America, by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, 277–311. (New York: Berghahn, 2007. xiv, 407 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-1-84545-205-6. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-84545-499-9.)
Dorsey, Kurk, “Water, Bread, and salt: Environmental Politics in the Cold War,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 102–18.
Eisenberg, Carolyn, “Nixon and Kissinger: Irrationality in Foreign Policy,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 253–69.
Enstad, Nan, “To Know Tobacco: Southern Identity in China in the Jim Crow Era,” Southern Cultures, 13 (Winter 2007), 6–23.
Etheridge, Brian C., “Di antideutsche Welle: The Anti-German Wave, Public Diplomacy, and Intercultural Relations in Cold War America,” in Decentering America, by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, 73–106. (New York: Berghahn, 2007. xiv, 407 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-1-84545-205-6. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-84545-499-9.)
Friedman, Max Paul, “Misperceptions of Empire: How Berlin and Washington Misread the ‘Ordinary Germans’ of Latin America in World War II,” in Decentering America, by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, 255–76. (New York: Berghahn, 2007. xiv, 407 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-1-84545-205-6. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-84545-499-9.)
Glantz, Mary E., “An Officer and a Diplomat? The Ambiguous Position of Philip R. Faymonville and United States–Soviet Relations, 1941–1943,” Journal of Military History, 72 (Jan. 2008), 141–77.
Hohman, Valleri J., “Hard Travel: American Encounters with the Modern Russian Theatre,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 19 (Fall 2007), 79–94.
Holmes, Virginia Iris, “Was Einstein Really a Pacifist? Einstein’s Forward-Thinking, Pragmatic, Persistent Pacifism,” Peace & Change, 33 (April 2008), 274–307.
Jacobs, Seth, “‘A Monumental Struggle of Good versus Evil’: American Crusaders in Vietnam and Iraq,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 214–32.
Mackenzie, Hector, “Shades of Gray? ‘The Foundations of Canadian Policy in World Affairs’ in Context,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 37 (Winter 2007), 459–73.
Maddock, Shane J., “Managing Armageddon: The Nuclear Arms Race and Arms Control since 1945,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 156–74.
Massie, Justin, “Canada’s (In)dependence in the North American Security Community: The Asymmetrical Norm of Common Fate,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 37 (Winter 2007), 493–516.
McMahon, Robert J., “The Security Imperative: U.S. Cold War Strategies, 1947–1963,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 141–55.
Meriwether, James H., “Endangering the Security of the Free World: Africa, the United States, and the Cold War,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 90–101.
Pernet, Corinne A., “‘For the Genuine Culture of the Americas’: Musical Folklore, Popular Arts, and the Cultural Politics of Pan Americanism, 1933–50,” in Decentering America, by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, 132–68. (New York: Berghahn, 2007. xiv, 407 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-1-84545-205-6. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-84545-499-9.)
Rotter, Andrew J., “Culture and the Cold War,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 175–89.
Schwarzkopf, Stefan, “Who Said ‘Americanization’? The Case of Twentieth-Century Advertising and Mass Marketing from a British Perspective,” in Decentering America, by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, 23–72. (New York: Berghahn, 2007. xiv, 407 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-1-84545-205-6. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-84545-499-9.)
Scott-Smith, Giles, “Attempting to Secure an ‘Orderly Evolution’: American Foundations, the Hague Academy of International Law, and the Third World,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 41 (Dec. 2007), 509–32.
Suri, Jeremi, “The Final Crises: Conflict and Leadership at the End of the Cold War,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 270–86.
Tavares, Hannah M., “The Racial Subjection of Filipinos in the Early Twentieth Century,” in The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education: Marginality, Agency, and Power, ed. Eileen H. Tamura, 17–40. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 226 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60043-0.)
Tyrrell, Ian, “Confronting the ‘E’ Word: American Empire and Transnational History,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 26 (July 2007), 41–53.
Breen, Deborah, “‘Empire of things’: Material Culture and the Americanization of Australia, 1850–1890” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3250178.
Flores, Ruben, “States of Culture: Relativism and National Consolidation in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950” (University of California, Berkeley, 2006). Order No. DA3254266.
Hong, Hyun Woong, “American Foreign Policy toward Korea, 1945–1950” (Oklahoma State University, 2007). Order No. DA3259599.
Keskin Kozat, Burçak, “Negotiating Modernization through U.S. Foreign Assistance: Turkey’s Marshall Plan (1948–1952) Re-Interpreted” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3253309.
Knight, Cranston S., “When War Was No Longer Unthinkable: American Perception of and Reaction to Japan prior to Pearl Harbor” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3261316.
Macris, Jeffrey R., “The Anglo-American Gulf: Britain’s Departure and America’s Arrival in the Persian Gulf” (Johns Hopkins University, 2007). Order No. DA3262374.
McCallister, Ernest B., “Relationship between Stated U.S. Presidential Policy and International Military Arms Sales from 1969–2003” (Walden University, 2007). Order No. DA3259078.
Muehlenbeck, Philip Emil, “Betting on the Dark Horses: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3258480.
Ritter, Christen Thomas, “Closing the Gold Window: Gold, Dollars, and the Making of Nixonian Foreign Economic Policy” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3260975.
Seiple, Chris, “Revisiting the Geo-Political Thinking of Sir Halford John Mackinder: United States–Uzbekistan Relations, 1991–2005” (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2007). Order No. DA3262884.
Smolynec, Gregory, “Multicultural Cold War: Liberal Anti-totalitarianism and National Identity in the United States and Canada, 1935–1971” (Duke University, 2007). Order No. DA3254731.
Snyder, Sarah Baldwin, “The Helsinki Process, American Foreign Policy, and the End of the Cold War” (Georgetown University, 2006). Order No. DA3255343.
Tolviasas, Tomas, “America on Display: U.S. Commercial and Cultural Exhibitions in the Soviet Bloc Countries, 1961–1968” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3253021.
Wheeler, Norton, “Invited Influence: American Private Associations in the Modernization of China, 1985–2005” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3261059.
Cho, Ji-Hyung, Heonbeobae bichin yoksa (Korean and American constitutions: A comparative history). (Seoul: Pureun Yoksa, 2007. 363 pp. Paper, Won 15,000, isbn 978-89-91510-49-4.) In Korean.
Davies, J.E., Constructive Engagement? Chester Crocker and American Policy in South Africa, Namibia, and Angola, 1981–88. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. x, 246 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1781-2. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1782-9.)
Haller, Gret, The Limits of Atlanticism: Perceptions of State, Nation, and Religion in Europe and the United States, trans. Alan Nothnagle. (New York: Berghahn, 2007. xii, 175 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-84545-318-3.) Originally published in German.
Kopstein, Jeffrey, and Sven Steinmo, eds., Growing Apart? America and Europe in the Twenty-First Century. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xvi, 237 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-521-87931-6. Paper, $23.99, isbn 978-0-521-70491-5.)
Roberts, Priscilla, ed., Bridging the Sino-American Divide: American Studies with Chinese Characteristics. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. xvi, 541 pp. $89.99, isbn 9781847183170.)
Schmitz, David F., The Triumph of Internationalism: Franklin D. Roosevelt and a World in Crisis, 1933–1941. (Dulles: Potomac, 2007. xxii, 151 pp. Cloth, $38.00, isbn 978-1-57488-930-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-57488-931-4.)
Sullivan, Michael J., III, American Adventurism Abroad: Invasions, Interventions, and Regime Changes since World War II. (Malden: Blackwell, 2008. xii, 267 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-4051-7075-8.) Revised and expanded edition.
Vukadinovic, Radovan, Vanjska politika SAD-a u doba hladnog rata (U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era). (Zagreb: Politicka kultura, 2007. 263 pp. isbn 978-953-258-018-1.) In Croatian.
Geyer, David C., and Douglas E. Selvage, eds., Soviet-American Relations: The Détente Years, 1969–1972. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2007. xliv, 1027 pp. $59.00, isbn 978-0-16-079065-2.)
Halberstam, David, The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era, ed. Daniel J. Singal. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xxiv, 223 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-7425-6007-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7425-6008-6.) Originally published in 1965.
Keane, Douglas, and Michael Warner, eds., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950–1955: The Intelligence Community, 1950–1955. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2007. xxx, 839 pp. $66.00, isbn 0-16-076468-8.)
McEldowney, Carol Cohen, Hanoi Journal, 1967, ed. Suzanne Kelley McCormack and Elizabeth R. Mock. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. xlvi, 151 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-604-0. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-1-55849-605-7.)
Seay, George Liston, The Art of Conversation: Dialogue at the Woodrow Wilson Center, ed. Peter J. Bean. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii, 259 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8783-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8018-8784-0.)
Van Hook, Laurie, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. 30: Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, 1973–1976. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2007. xxx, 873 pp. $66.00, isbn 978-0-16-079017-1.)
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