The H-Diplo DiscussionNETWORK is a moderated, electronic list with over 4,000 subscribers who discuss foreign relations history, broadly defined. The list has a companion RSS feed and full online archives of all content dating back to 1993. (more»)

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We commission scholarly reviews of academic articles on topics in foreign relations history cover both print and online-only journals, including Diplomatic History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, and History Compass. (more»)

Reviewer: Nicholas Khoo
Article Author: Lorenz Luthi
Journal Issue: Journal of Cold War Studies 10.1 (Winter 2008)
Title(s): “The Vietnam War and China’s Third-Line Defence Planning before the Cultural Revolution, 1964-1966.”
Publication Date: 11 July 2008

Reviewer: William R. Keylor
Article Author: Peter Jackson; Martin S. Alexander
Journal Issue: Intelligence and National Security 22.4 (2007)
Title(s): "French Military Intelligence responds to the German Remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936 - Note concerning the consequences that follow, from a military point of view, from Germany's renunciation of the Locarno Treaty." "French Military Intelligence responds to the German Remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936 - A look at French intelligence machinery in 1936." "French Military Intelligence responds to the German Remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936 - The military consequences for France of the end of Locarno."
Publication Date: 9 July 2008

Reviewer: Jonathan Reed Winkler
Article: “The Cold War at 60,” a special issue of the New England Journal of History 64:1 (Fall 2007).
Publication Date: 3 July 2008

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Our roundtable reviews provide in-depth coverage of key works in foregn relations and diplomatic history. Every roundtable features a panel of distinguished specialists and, often, thoughtful replies from the authors themselves. (more»)

Author: Kristin Hoganson
Title: Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
Reviewers: Thomas Maddux, Christopher Endy, Mary Renda, Ian Tyrrell, Mari Yoshihara

Author: Richard K. Betts
Title: Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security
Reviewers: Joshua Rovner, Erik J. Dahl, Glenn Hastedt, Richard Russell

Author: David F. Schmitz
Title: The Triumph of Internationalism: Franklin D. Roosevelt and a World in Crisis, 1933-1941
Reviewers: Thomas Maddux, Mark Gilderhus, Alonzo L. Hamby, T. Christopher Jespersen, J. Simon Rofe

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H-Diplo participates in the H-Net Book Reviews program and reviews books on foreign relations history, broadly defined, including monographs, primary source collections, and essay collections. We also publish some specialized reviews such as our roundtable reviews and capsule booknotes. (more»)

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	Reviewer: Stefan Berger Author: Christoph Classen Title: Faschismus und Antifaschismus: Die Nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit im Ostdeutschen Hörfunk (1945-1953)
	Reviewer: Antoine Capet Author: David Reynolds Title: Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century
	Reviewer: Gerard Hugues Author: Simon P. Newman, ed Title: Europe's American Revolution

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The Spotlight is an H-Diplo column designed to stimulate a dialogue about the contours of “international history.” Who are “international” historians, and what are they writing? How are the methodologies and lines of inquiry unfolding? As an Internet-based source of commentary and analysis, the IHS aims to use the flexibility of an electronic format to draw attention to a wide range of materials – research programs, journal articles, and even web sites of potential interest to list members. (more»)

IHS 2007, No. 1- What did the League do, exactly?

H-Diplo essays range from state of the field thoughtpieces to extended critiques of selected works to retrospectives on noteworthy historical figures. (more»)

Essayist: Mark Stout
Title: Review of R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Jackson, and Len Scott, eds.. Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State.
Publication Date: 9 July 2008

Essayist: William Glenn Gray
Title: "Fractal Geometry." Review of Helga Haftendorn, Georges-Henri Soutou, Stephen F. Szabo, and Samuel F. Wells, Jr., eds. The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of the New Europe
Publication Date: 22 May 2008

Essayists: Kim Munholland
Title: Review of Irwin M. Wall. Les États-Unis et la guerre d’Algérie, préface de Georges-Henri Soutou, traduit de l’anglais par Philippe-Étienne Raviart
Publication Date: 10 January 2008

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