Recent Scholarship
International Relations
Atac, C. Akca, “Bagimsizlik savasçiligindan dünya hükümdarlingina: Amerikan imparatorluk anlayisinin tarihsel gelisimi” (From freedom fightership to global sovereignty: The historical development of the American understanding of imperialism), Dogu Bati: Düsünce Dergisi (Istanbul), 42 (June–Aug. 2007), 111–26. In Turkish.
Borgwardt, Elizabeth, “’When You State a Moral Principle, You Are Stuck With It’: The 1941 Atlantic Charter as a Human Rights Instrument,” Virginia Journal of International Law, 46 (Spring 2006), 501–62.
Campbell, Wesley J., “James Cole Mountflorence and the Politics of Diplomacy,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 66 (Fall 2007), 210–35. Heavily illustrated.
Cohn, Deborah, “Combatting Anti-Americanism during the Cold War: Faulkner, the State Department, and Latin America,” Mississippi Quarterly, 59 (Summer–Fall 2006), 395–413.
Cook, Philip C., “Le Grand Charles, Delasoups, and Uncle Earl: De Gaulle’s Visit to New Orleans,” Louisiana History, 49 (Winter 2008), 5–20.
Heiss, Mary Ann, “Colonialism and the Atlantic Alliance: Anglo-American Perspectives at the United Nations, 1945–1963,” in nato and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts, ed. Mary Ann Heiss and S. Victor Papacosma, 25–42. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. xvi, 244 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-87338-936-5.)
Iatrides, John O., “Failed Rampart: nato’s Balkan Front,” in nato and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts, ed. Mary Ann Heiss and S. Victor Papacosma, 58–74. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. xvi, 244 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-87338-936-5.)
Locher, Anna, and Christian Nuenlist, “Containing the French Malaise? The Role of nato’s Secretary General, 1958–1968,” in nato and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts, ed. Mary Ann Heiss and S. Victor Papacosma, 75–90. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. xvi, 244 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-87338-936-5.)
Rotter, Andrew Jon, “The Religious Typology of American Foreign Relations,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 29 (2007), 23–37.
Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher, “Spanish Origins of American Empire: Hispanism, History, and Commemoration, 1898–1915,” International History Review (Burnaby), 30 (March 2008), 32–51.
Terachi, Koji, “‘Every War Must End’ or Ending a Quagmire for the United States: Laos, Vietnam and . . .,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 29 (2007), 133–49.
Várdy, Steven, “Louis Kossuth: A Celebrated, Disillusioned Hungarian Revolutionary’s Visit to Pittsburgh in 1852,” Western Pennsylvania History, 91 (Spring 2008), 18–31. Heavily illustrated.
Anderson, Mark Christian, “Capability Theory and the United Nations in the Decade after the End of the Cold War” (University of Idaho, 2007). Order No. DA3265574.
Cerami, Joseph R., “Policy Innovation and Public Leadership: The Clinton Administration’s Counterproliferation Policy Initiative” (Pennsylvania State University, 2007). Order No. DA3266082.
Chapman, Terrance L., “Information and Institutional Legitimacy: The un Security Council, Regional Organizations, and State Behavior” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264063.
Cheng, Emily, “Sentimental Journey: Transnational Adoption from China and Post–World War II U.S. Liberalism” (University of California, San Diego, 2007). Order No. DA3263454.
Demsky, Jeffrey Scott, “Going Public in Support: American Discursive Opposition to Nazi Anti-Semitism, 1933–1944” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3271125.
Fan, Shuhua, “‘Cultural Engineering’: The Harvard-Yenching Institute and Chinese Humanities, 1924–1951” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3267818.
Gerhardt, Hannes, “The Geopolitics of Distant Suffering: U.S. Government and Faith-Based Responses to ‘Genocide’ in Sudan” (University of Arizona, 2007). Order No. DA3267826.
Graham, Angela, “‘A Colossus and a Conundrum’: Canada, the United States, and Canadian China Policy, 1942–1970” (McMaster University, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR36042.
Kim, Chang Young, “A Historiographic Study of the Missiological Contribution of the American Presbyterian Missions and Its Correlation to the Missions of the Korean Presbyterian Church” (Reformed Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3265887.
Lynes, Krista Geneviève, “Imaging Boundaries: Video, Gender, and the Politics of Visibility” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2007). Order No. DA3265726.
Mitoma, Glenn Tatsuya, “Globalizing Rights: Defining, Declaring, and Denying Human Rights in the Age of American Hegemony, 1939–1955” (Claremont Graduate University, 2007). Order No. DA3268253.
Nemeth, Tammy Lynn, “Canada–United States Oil and Gas Relations, 1958 to 1974” (University of British Columbia, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR31897.
Pasquale, Charles D., “Pivotal Deterrence and U.S. Security Policy in the Taiwan Strait” (Old Dominion University, 2007). Order No. DA3264827.
Petrova, Velina P., “The Marshall Plan Is Dead, Long Live Foreign Aid: The Shape of Foreign Development Assistance after WW II” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264095.
Rubenzer, Trevor, “Examining the Impact of Ethnic Minority Groups on U.S. Foreign Policy” (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2007). Order No. DA3262940.
Shulman, Peter Adam, “Empire of Energy: Environment, Geopolitics, and American Technology before the Age of Oil” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007). Order No. DA0818748.
Smith, Eric R., “Anti-Fascism, the United Front, and Spanish Republican Aid in the United States, 1936–1940” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3267047.
Walcher, Dustin Alan, “Missionaries of Modernization: The United States, Argentina, and the Liberal International Order, 1958–1963” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3275186.
Del Pero, Mario, Libertà e impero: Gli Stati Uniti e il mondo, 1776–2006 (Freedom and empire: The U.S. and the world, 1776–2006). (Rome–Bari: Laterza, 2008. 599 pp. €26.00, isbn 978-88-420-7438-0.) In Italian.
Galgani, Pier Francesco, America Latina e Stati Uniti: Dalla dottrina Monroe ai rapporti tra G.W. Bush e Chavez (Latin America and the United States: From the Monroe Doctrine to the relations between G. W. Bush and Chavez). (Milan: Angeli, 320 pp. €16.00, isbn 884648875X.) In Italian.
Gallagher, Charles R., Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii, 283 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-300-12134-6.)
Heiss, Mary Ann, and S. Victor Papacosma, eds., nato and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. xvi, 244 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-87338-936-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Henriksen, Thomas H., American Power after the Berlin Wall. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. viii, 250 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60094-2.)
Hess, Gary R., Vietnam: Explaining America’s Lost War. (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell, 2008. xii, 218 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-1-4051-2527-7. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-4051-2528-4.)
Izzo, Donatella, Giorgio Mariani, and Paola Zaccaria, eds., American Solitudes: Individual, National, Transnational. (Rome: Carocci, 2007. 452 pp. €37.00, isbn 978-88-430-4433-7.)
Kim, Deok-Ho, and Yong-Jin Won, eds., Americanization: Haebang yihoo Hangukeseoeui migukwha (The Americanization of South Korean society after 1945). (Seoul: Peureunyeoksa, 2008. 463 pp. Paper, Won 20,000, isbn 978-89-91510-67-8.) In Korean.
Marshall, P. J., The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America, c. 1750–1783. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. x, 398 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-19-927895-4. Paper, $37.95, isbn 978-0-19-922666-5.) Originally published in 2005.
Moss, Kenneth B., Undeclared War and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy. (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2008. xviii, 298 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8856-4. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8018-8857-1.)
Nichols, Thomas M., Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xiv, 171 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4066-5.)
Palmer, Michael A., The Last Crusade: Americanism and the Islamic Reformation. (Dulles: Potomac, 2007. x, 273 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-59797-062-4.)
Rossini, Daniela, Woodrow Wilson and the American Myth in Italy: Culture, Diplomacy, and War Propaganda, trans. Antony Shugaar. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 263 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-674-02824-1.) Originally in Italian.
Schulz, William F., ed., The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. viii, 314 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8122-4111-2.)
Serfaty, Simon, Architects of Delusion: Europe, America, and the Iraq War. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 172 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8122-4060-3.)
Thompson, John Herd, and Stephen J. Randall, Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. 424 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0773533982.) Fourth Edition.
Wenger, Andreas, Vojtech Mastny, and Christian Nuenlist, Origins of the European Security System: The Helsinki Process Revisited, 1965–1975. (New York: Routledge, 2008. 288 pp. $140.00, isbn 9780415433877.)
Ziemann, Benjamin, ed., Peace Movements in Western Europe, Japan, and the usa during the Cold War. (Essen: Klartext, 2008. 286 pp. Paper, €29.90, isbn 978-3-89861-763-5.)
Engel, Jeffrey A., ed., The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xxxii, 544 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-691-13006-4.)
Geyer, David C., ed., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. 40: Germany and Berlin, 1969–1972. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2007. xxxii, 1142 pp. $71.00, isbn 978-0-16-079016-4.)
Miller, James E., Douglas E. Selvage, and Laurie Van Hook, eds., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. 29: Eastern Europe; Eastern Mediterranean, 1969–1972. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2007. xliv, 1160 pp. $71.00, isbn 978-0-16-079018-8.)
Nickles, David P., ed., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. 28: China, 1973–1976. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2007. xxxii, 1002 pp. $68.00, isbn 978-0-16-077110-1.)
Selvage, Douglas E., ed., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. 39: European Security, 1969–1976. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2007. xxxviii, 1131 pp. $71.00, isbn 978-0-16-077109-5.)
Wilkowski, Jean M., Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. xii, 352 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-268-04413-8.)
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