Cornell University Press Military History Catalogue 2019

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

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2019

M I L I TA R Y HISTORY

The Last Card Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Br ands, and William Inboden, eds.

This is the real story of how George W. Bush came to double-down on Iraq in the highest stakes gamble of his entire presidency. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly thirty senior officials, including President Bush himself. The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which President Bush overruled much of the military leadership and many of his trusted advisors, and authorized the deployment of roughly 30,000 additional troops to the warzone in a bid to save Iraq from collapse in 2007.

The adoption of a new counterinsurgency strategy and surge of new troops into Iraq altered the American posture in the Middle East for a decade to come. In The Last Card we have access to the deliberations among the decision-makers on Bush’s national security team as they embarked on that course. In their own words, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and others, recount the debates and disputes that informed the process as President Bush weighed the historical lessons of Vietnam against the perceived strategic imperatives in the Middle East. For a president who had earlier vowed never to dictate military strategy to generals, the deliberations in the Oval Office and Situation Room in 2006 constituted a trying and fateful moment.

Even a president at war is bound by rules of consensus and limited by the risk of constitutional crisis. What is to be achieved in the warzone must also be possible in Washington, D.C. Bush risked losing public esteem and courted political ruin by refusing to disengage from the costly war in Iraq. The Last Card is a portrait of leadership—firm and daring if flawed—in the Bush White House.

The personal perspectives from men and women who served at the White House, Foggy Bottom, the Pentagon, and in Baghdad, are complemented by critical assessments written by leading scholars in the field of international security. Taken together, the candid interviews and probing essays are a first draft of the history of the surge and new chapter in the history of the American presidency.

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“The Last Card provides an extraordinarily useful collective oral history of the decision-making leading to the ‘surge,’ and offers a set of incisive essays that critique and assess the decision and process that led to it.”

—Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia “This book does not disappoint! It nicely illuminates the complexities and challenges of crisis decision-making—I don’t know of another project quite like it.”

—James H. Lebovic, The George Washington University Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

Jeffrey A. Engel is Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.

Hal Brands is Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

William Inboden is Executive Director and William Powers, Jr., Chair of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Empire’s Labor The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars Adam Moore

In a dramatic unveiling of the previously shadowed community of civilian logistical support, Adam Moore investigates the global army of laborers that provides services to US overseas military operations. Empire’s Labor brings the hundreds of thousands of men and women who assist US operations to the fore, highlighting the changes the US military has undergone since the Vietnam War. In Vietnam the ratio of contractors to uniformed personnel was roughly 1:6; in the Balkans and Iraq the ration was at least equal. This growth in logistics contracting is such a fundamental change in how the US fights wars that the its military now depends on a global army of contractors throughout the world.

Focusing on the experiences of workers from the Philippines and Bosnia, two significant sources of “third country nationals” (TCNs), Moore concentrates on the development of logistics outsourcing in the 1990s; the networks, infrastructures, and practices that span the spaces through which people, information, and goods circulate; and life on the bases themselves. He finds that a clear racial hierarchy exists between southeast European workers (who tend to work for primary contractors) and Asian workers (mostly employed by Turkish and Gulf-based subcontractors), with stark differences in recruitment, pay, and working conditions, types of employment, and freedom of movement on the bases. Through his case studies and interviews, Moore provides a voice to the agency, aspirations, and experiences of the thousands who labor for the US military.

Adam Moore is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Peacebuilding in Practice. Follow him on Twitter @sokolkrc.

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“Empire’s Labor is an excellent, powerful, and clear book that exposes a major foundation of what has become a permanent state of war for the United States. Adam Moore makes important contributions to understandings of empire, war, the US military, militarization, and labor relations, among other issues critical to understanding our world.”

—David Vine, American University

The Stuff of Soldiers A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects Br andon M. Schechter

The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter concentrates on objects, the uniform world of material goods, to show how diverse soldiers in the ranks of the Red Army united, and how these mundane items separated civilians from soldiers.

Through a detailed reading of propaganda leaflets, official proclamations, military newspapers and journals, manuals, letters, diaries, memoirs, and interviews, The Stuff of Soldiers helps us to see how the use of everyday items collided with the realities of war. The range of documents showcases ethnic tensions, women’s particular problems at the front, fear, and detailed descriptions of violence and looting.

Each chapter features a series of related objects, such as weapons, uniforms, rations, or the knock knacks in a soldier’s backpack. These objects narrate the experience of people at war and explore the changes taking place in Soviet society in the course of the most destructive conflict in recorded history.

Schechter demonstrates that spoons, shovels, belts, and watches held as much meaning and importance to the waging of war as guns and tanks. As The Stuff of Soldiers clearly and boldly shows, Soviet wartime culture put great stock in the transformative nature of material culture in an attempt to create a modern, culture person and soldier during World War II. Brandon Schechter is the Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History at New York University. He is a contributor to Objects of War, edited by Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra.

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The Life of Alcibiades Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens Jacqueline de Romilly tr ansl ated by Elizabeth Tr apnell R awlings

More appealing than the classic The Mind of Thucydides, Jacqueline de Romilly’s biographical treatment of the charismatic Athenian statesman Alcibiades showcases the life and times of the gifted orator and general.

Translated into English for the first time, The Life of Alcibiades chronicles the dramatic life of a man who achieved renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War. An extraordinary adventure story and a cautionary tale, de Romilly reveals the dangers that political opportunism and demagoguery pose to democracy. As de Romilly expertly documents, the life of Alcibiades was one of wanderings and vicissitudes, promises and disappointments, brilliant successes and ruinous defeats. The Life of Alcibiades takes the reader from scandal to scandal; from Athens to Sparta, to Persia, and back; and from political intrigue to incidents worthy of a modern-day “celebrity.”

In de Romilly’s account, Alcibiades is a cautionary figure for our own times, providing lessons we should all take from history through this deeply fascinating life.

Jacqueline de Romilly (1913–2010 was a distinguished scholar of Greek history and culture. In 1973 she became Chair of Greek at the College de France, the first woman nominated to this prestigious institution. In 1988, she was elected to the Académie Française, as the second woman member. de Romilly was an A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University from 1974 to 1980.

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The Nuclear Spies America’s Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin Vince Houghton

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union’s nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project’s intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi’s plan for an atomic bomb. What changed, and what went wrong?

Houghton’s riveting retelling of this fascinating case of American spy ineffectiveness in the then-new field of scientific intelligence provides us with a fresh look at the early years of the Cold War. During that time, scientific intelligence quickly grew to become a significant portion of the CIA budget as it struggled to contend with the incredible advance in weapons and other scientific discoveries immediately after World War II. As Houghton shows, the abilities of the Soviet Union’s scientists, its research facilities and laboratories, and its educational system became a key consideration for the CIA in assessing the threat level of its most potent foe. Sadly, for the CIA, scientific intelligence was extremely difficult to do well. When the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb in 1949, no one in the American intelligence services saw it coming.

Vince Houghton is Historian and Curator at the International Spy Museum. He taught courses in Cold War history and intelligence history at the University of Maryland and is the host and creative director of Spycast, the Spy Museum’s popular podcast. His work has been published widely in such media as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Economist, Vanity Fair, and others.

“The Nuclear Spies deftly navigates the decisions made, for better or worse, by World War II–era American intelligence agencies. This book [adds to our] understanding of scientific intelligence as a tool for national security.”—Valerie Plame, former covert CIA Operations Officer “The Nuclear Spies makes a significant contribution to intelligence studies by filling a gap in the literature: the importance of individual and institutional threat perceptions and cultural preconceptions when it comes to the development of strategic policy.”

—Genevieve Lester, US Army War College “Vince Houghton is clearly well versed in the history and the intelligence challenges about which he is writing, resulting in an illuminating and valuable book.”

—Richard Immerman, Temple University

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Divided Allies Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill

By directly challenging existing accounts of post-World War II relations among the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, Divided Allies is a significant contribution to transnational and diplomatic history. At its heart, Divided Allies examines why strategic cooperation among these closely allied Western powers in the Asia-Pacific region was limited during the early Cold War. Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill probe the difficulties of security cooperation as these leadership of these four nations balanced intramural competition with the need to develop common strategy against the new communist power, the People’s Republic of China.

Robb and Gill expose contention and disorganization in direct contrast to previous accounts of cooperation and common purpose among non-communist allies in the early phase of containment strategy in Asia-Pacific. In particular, the authors note the centrality of economic, racial, and cultural elements to planning for regional security and they highlight how these domestic matters resulted in international disorganization. Divided Allies shows that, amidst these contentious relations, the antipodean powers Australia and New Zealand occupied an important role in the region and successfully utilized quadrilateral diplomacy to advance their own national interests, such as the crafting of the 1951 ANZUS collective security treaty.

As fractious as were allied relations in the early days of NATO, Robb and Gill demonstrate that the post-World War II Asia-Pacific was as contentious, and that Britain and the commonwealth nations were necessary and equal partners in the development of early global Cold War strategy.

Thomas K. Robb is Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is author of Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American “Special Relationship” and A Strained Partnership.

David James Gill is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is author of Britain and the Bomb. Follow him on Twitter @ GillDavidJames.

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“Divided Allies changes the way we think about existing Cold War history. Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill’s work will spark substantial research, and the book will be a rich resource for scholars in international relations, diplomatic history, and regional studies..

—Jarrod N. Hayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Massachusetts

The Day After Why America Wins the War but Loses the Peace Brendan R. Gall agher

Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, we mopped the floor with our enemies. But in short order, things went horribly wrong. We soon discovered we had no coherent plan to manage the “day after.” This helped set the stage for an extraordinary historical moment in which America’s role in the world, along with our commitment to democracy at home and abroad, have become subject to growing doubt. With the benefit of hindsight, can we discern what went wrong? Why have we had such great difficulty planning for the aftermath of war?

Brendan R. Gallagher—an Army lieutenant colonel with multiple combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, and a Princeton PhD—seeks to tackle this vital question. Gallagher argues there is a tension between our desire to create a new democracy and our competing desire to pull out as soon as possible. Our leaders often strive to accomplish both to keep everyone happy. But by avoiding the tough underlying decisions, it fosters an incoherent strategy. This makes chaos more likely.

The Day After draws on new interviews with dozens of civilian and military officials, ranging from US cabinet secretaries to four-star generals. It also sheds light on how, in Kosovo, we lowered our postwar aims to quietly achieve a surprising partial success. Striking at the heart of what went wrong in our recent wars, and what we should do about it, Gallagher asks whether we will learn from our mistakes, or provoke even more disasters?

Human lives, money, elections, and America’s place in the world may hinge on the answer.

Brendan R. Gallagher is a US Army lieutenant colonel in the infantry who has completed seven tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, including multiple deployments with the 75th Ranger Regiment.

He received the General George C. Marshall award as the top US graduate at the Army Command and General Staff College, and is currently a battalion commander. He holds a PhD in public and international affairs from Princeton.

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“A thought-provoking, exhaustivelyresearched, and compelling account (and cautionary tale) of the enormous challenges of the ‘post-conflict’ phases of America’s major post-9/11 interventions— by a true soldier-scholar who served on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan and then carefully studied the conflicts in which he had led soldiers.”

—General Petreaus, US Army (Ret) “The Day After is a searing indictment of American strategic incompetence—a tale of a musclebound giant repeatedly unable to transform military victory into durable political success. Brendan Gallagher shows that the main cause of the problem is national leaders who simply refuse to confront tough choices or engage in disciplined postwar planning. This book will make you angry—and it should.”—Gideon Rose, author of How Wars End “The Day After asks why America has so often won the war but lost the peace that followed. Brendan Gallagher’s answers are correct, and timeless: Postwar is harder than war. Beware of magical thinking.

Learn from history.”

—Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, US Army (Ret.), author of Knife Fights

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Rough Draft Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance Amy J. Rutenberg

Rough Draft explains both the causes and the consequences of the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers’ idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected who they targeted for conscription and for deferments.

Along with much of the American population, federal officials believed college educated men could better protect the nation from the threat of communism as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for these men grew rapidly between 1945 and 1965, making it less and less likely that middle-class white men would serve in the Cold War military. Meanwhile, officials used the War on Poverty to target poorer men for conscription in the hopes that military service would offer them skills they could use in civilian life.

As Rutenberg shows, manpower policies between World War II and the Vietnam War had unintended consequences. While some men resisted military service in Vietnam for reasons of political conscience, most of those who avoided military service did so because manpower polices made it possible. By protecting middle-class breadwinners in the name of national security, Rough Draft sheds light on how policy planners militarized certain civilian roles, a move that, ironically, separated military service from the obligations of masculine citizenship and, ultimately, helped kill the draft in the United States.

Amy J. Rutenberg is Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University. Follow her on Twitter @amyjay401.

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Constructing Allied Cooperation Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in Multilateral Military Coalitions Marina E. Henke

How do states overcome problems of collective action in the face of human atrocities, terrorism and the threat of weapons of mass destruction? What does international burden-sharing in this context look like? These are the questions Marina E. Henke addresses in her new book Constructing Allied Cooperation.

Through qualitative and quantitative analysis of eighty multilateral military coalitions, Henke demonstrates that coalitions do not emerge naturally. As Constructing Allied Cooperation shows, these ties constitute an invaluable state capability to engage others in collective action: they are tools to construct cooperation.

Pulling apart the strategy behind multilateral military coalition-building, Henke looks at the ramifications and side effects as well. Her theory and evidence force us to revisit the conventional wisdom on how cooperation in military operations comes about. The author generates new insights with respect to who is most likely to join a particular intervention, what factors influence the strength and capacity of individual coalitions, and what diplomacy and diplomatic ties are good for. As the Trump administration promotes an “America First” policy and withdraws from international agreements and the United Kingdom completes Brexit, Constructing Allied Cooperation is an important reminder that international security cannot be delinked from more mundane forms of cooperation; multilateral military coalitions thrive or fail depending on the breadth and depth of existing social and diplomatic networks.

“Marina E. Henke’s book is intriguing, interesting, and provocative. Her ability to insightfully explain the transactional nature of relationships between large and small actors attempting to complete their coalitions reveals in great detail the complicated nature of international coalition building.”

—Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist University “Constructing Allied Cooperation will be a valuable resource for those interested in multilateral military coalitions and international security cooperation more generally. It combines theoretical innovation with rich empirical work.”

—Alexander Thompson, Ohio State University

Marina E Henke is Assistant Professor of International Relations and the Co-Chair of the War & Society Working Group at Northwestern University.

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Skis in the Art of War K. B. E. E. Eimeleusd edited and tr ansl ated by William D. Fr ank introduction and commentary by E. John B. Allen

K. B. E. E. Eimeleus was far ahead of his time with his advocacy of ski training in the Russian armed forces. Nearly three decades after he published his book, the Finnish army, employing many of the ideas first proposed by Eimeleus, used mobile ski troops to hold the Soviet Union at bay during the Winter War of 1939–40, and in response, the Soviet government organized a massive ski mobilization effort prior to the German invasion in 1941.

Employing terminology never before used in Russian to describe movements with which few were familiar, Skis in the Art of War gives a breakdown of the latest techniques from Scandinavia and Finland. The book was perhaps the first attempt in any language to do so, and is an early and brilliant example of knowledge transfer from Scandinavia to Russia within the context of sport.

In this lucid translation that includes most of the original illustrations, scholar and biathlon competitor William D. Frank collaborates with E. John B. Allen, arguably the world’s preeminent authority on ski history.

K. B. E. E. Eimeleus (Carl Bror Emil Aejmelaeus-Äimä) served at the highest levels of the Finnish government after independence until his death in 1935.

William D. Frank is the author of Everyone to Skis! and former competitive biathlon athlete.

E. John B. Allen is author of From Skisport to Skiing and Culture and Sport of Skiing from Antiquity to World War II.

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“This book embraces larger issues, including the history of sport, the history of local ingenuity in overcoming the challenges of climate, the history of adapting specialized skills and resources to military use, and the life history of a fascinating figure in the world of sports.”

—Bruce W. Menning, University of Kansas, author of Bayonets Before Bullets

A Fiery Gospel The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Road to Righteous War Richard M. Gamble

Since its composition in Washington’s Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent and redemptive imagery, drawn freely from prophetic passages of the Old and New Testaments, and fewer still think about the implications of that apocalyptic language for how Americans interpret who they are and what they owe the world.

In A Fiery Gospel, Richard M. Gamble describes how this camp-meeting tune, paired with Howe’s evocative lyrics, became one of the most effective instruments of religious nationalism.

He takes the reader back to the song’s origins during the Civil War, and reveals how those political and military circumstances launched the song’s incredible career in American public life.

Gamble deftly considers the idea behind the song—humming the tune, reading the music for us—all while reveling in the multiplicity of meanings of and uses to which Howe’s lyrics have been put. “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” has been versatile enough to match the needs of Civil Rights activists and conservative nationalists, war hawks and peaceniks, as well as Europeans and Americans. This varied career shows readers much about the shifting shape of American righteousness.

Yet it is, argues Gamble, the creator of the song herself—her Abolitionist household, Unitarian theology, and Romantic and nationalist sensibilities—that is the true conductor of this most American of war songs.

A Fiery Gospel depicts most vividly the surprising genealogy of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and its sure and certain position as a cultural piece in the uncertain amalgam that was and is American civil religion.

Richard M. Gamble is the Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Chair of History and Politics at Hillsdale College. He is author of In Search of the City on a Hill and The War for Righteousness.

“Lively. . . . Readers with an interest in 19th-century American religious and political popular culture will enjoy this biography of a hymn.”—Publishers Weekly “We think we know ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’, but Richard Gamble better acquaints us with the mostly unknown author, Julia Ward Howe, and the almost entirely unknown history of her iconic poem. The result is a treasure trove of insight on Howe and her anthem, and the dubious career of American religious nationalism.”—Mark Noll, author of In the Beginning Was the Word “Richard Gamble’s amazing story of a heroic song, beautifully told and thoroughly researched, will appeal to readers with a wide range of interests, including American history and literature, patriotism, women’s achievements, popular culture, and Biblical religion.”—Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought

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Political Survivors The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 Emma Kuby

In 1949, as Cold War tensions in Europe mounted, French intellectual and former Buchenwald inmate David Rousset called upon fellow concentration camp survivors to denounce the Soviet Gulag as a “hallucinatory repetition” of Nazi Germany’s most terrible crime. In Political Survivors, Emma Kuby tells the riveting story of what followed his appeal, as prominent members of the wartime Resistance from throughout Western Europe united to campaign against the continued existence of inhumane internment systems around the world. The International Commission against the Concentration Camp Regime brought together those originally deported for acts of anti-Nazi political activity who believed that their unlikely survival incurred a duty to bear witness for other victims. Over the course of the next decade, these pioneering activists crusaded to expose political imprisonment, forced labor, and other crimes against humanity in Franco’s Spain, Maoist China, French Algeria, and beyond.

Until now, the CIA’s secret funding of Rousset’s movement has remained in the shadows. Kuby reveals this clandestine arrangement between European camp survivors and American intelligence agents. She also brings to light how Jewish Holocaust victims were systematically excluded from Commission membership—a choice that fueled the group’s rise, but also helped lead to its premature downfall. The history that she unearths provides a striking new vision of how wartime memory shaped European intellectual life and ideological struggle after 1945. Political Survivors argues that Cold War dogma and acrimony overshadowed the humanitarian possibilities of the nascent anti-concentration camp movement as Europe confronted the violent decolonizing struggles of the 1950s.

Emma Kuby is Assistant Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. A specialist in modern France and its overseas empire, she has authored numerous articles on violence, justice, and memory in post-war Europe.

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“A meticulous, nuanced look inside the deeply fraught postwar political theater in France and Europe.”—Kirkus Reviews “Political Survivors is a breakthrough in the study of public ethics in the twentieth century. Kuby recovers the history of the French and transnational movement of victims of concentration camps against the repetition of similar horrors, showing how our world of human rights and Holocaust memory could have been very different. A masterful achievement.”

—Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough “Brilliant and original, Political Survivors combines a new, more probing form of political history with an innovative, more populist kind of intellectual history. From Auschwitz to Algeria, from national victimhood in the Occupation to national atrocity in Algeria, Kuby re-thinks the larger arc of French history in the postwar period.”

—Mary Louise Roberts, author of What Soldiers Do

Enduring Alliance A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order Timothy Andrews Sayle

Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some sixty years after its inception, some consider its foundation uncertain and its structure weak. At this moment of incipient strategic crisis, Timothy A. Sayle offers a sweeping history of the most critical alliance in the post-World War II era.

In Enduring Alliance, Sayle recounts how the western European powers, along with the United States and Canada, developed a treaty to prevent encroachments by the Soviet Union and to serve as a first defense in any future military conflict.

As the growing and unruly hodgepodge of countries, councils, commands, and committees inflated NATO during the Cold War, Sayle shows that the work of executive leaders, high-level diplomats, and institutional functionaries within NATO kept the alliance alive and strong in the face of changing administrations, various crises, and the flux of geopolitical maneuverings.

Resilience and flexibility have been the true hallmarks of NATO. As Enduring Alliance deftly shows, the history of NATO is organized around the balance of power, preponderant military forces, and plans for nuclear war. But it is also the history riven by generational change, the introduction of new approaches to conceiving international affairs, and the difficulty of diplomacy for democracies. As NATO celebrates its seventieth anniversary, the alliance once again faces challenges to its very existence even as it maintains its place firmly at the center of western hemisphere and global affairs.

Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor of History and a fellow of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and the Southern Methodist University’s Center for Presidential History.

“The logic, history, and analysis of Enduring Alliance are impeccable, and Timothy Andrews Sayle’s account is particularly useful at this moment when the Atlantic partnership is on unsteady ground. A must-read for policymakers seeking to ensure the Pax Atlantic is the indispensable and truly enduring alliance of our times.”

—Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret), Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, 2009–2013, and author, The Accidental Admiral “A deeply researched and engaging account of the complicated and consequential history of the United States and NATO. Sayle offers new insights, exposes various myths, and explores the complexities and challenges of this unique, oft-troubled, but resilient alliance.

Must-read for scholars of history, security studies, and institutions, as well as anyone concerned about the state of NATO today.”

—Francis J. Gavin, author of Nuclear Statecraft

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The Sexual Economy of War Discipline and Desire in the U.S. Army Andrew Byers

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ECONOMY OF In The Sexual Economy of War, Andrew Byers argues that in the early twentieth century, concerns about unregulated sexuality affected every aspect of how the US Army conducted military operations. Far from being an exercise marginal to the institution and its scope of operations, governing sexuality was, in fact, integral to the military experience during a time of two global conflicts and numerous other army deployments.

In this revealing study, Byers shows that none of the issues related to current debates about gender, sex, and the military— the inclusion of LGBTQ soldiers, sexual harassment and violence, the integration of women—is new at all. Framing the American story within an international context, he looks at case studies from the continental United States, Hawaii, the Philippines, France, and Germany. Drawing on internal army policy documents, soldiers’ personal papers, and disciplinary records used in criminal investigations, The Sexual Economy of War illuminates how the US Army used official policy, legal enforcement, indoctrination, and military culture to govern wayward sexual behaviors. Such regulation, and its active opposition, leads Byers to conclude that the tension between organizational control and individual agency has deep and tangled historical roots.

Andrew Byers researches the history of the regulation of the human body and the intersection of science, sexuality, and law in civilian and military contexts.

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DISCIPLINE AND DESIRE IN THE U.S. ARMY

ANDREW BYERS “Andrew Byers’s mastery of sources—most particularly in the United States Army’s courts-martial records—is rare. His book makes clear that the Army’s attempts to regulate sex, and the contests over how, why, and when to regulate it, matter a great deal.”

—Beth Bailey, author of America’s Army “This is an excellent book, broad-ranging in scope and analysis, and eminently readable. Andrew Byers’s unpacking of American martial masculinity in the context of overseas deployment—colliding as it did with tropical environments and racial miscegenation—is especially astute.”

—Bobby A. Wintermute, co-author of Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare

Quarters The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution John Gilbert McCurdy

When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III “for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.” In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America.

Providing new interpretations and analysis of the Quartering Act of 1765, McCurdy sheds light on a misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution.

Quarters unearths the vivid debate in eighteenth-century America over the meaning of place. It asks why the previously uncontroversial act of accommodating soldiers in one’s house became an unconstitutional act. In so doing, Quarters reveals new dimensions of the origins of Americans’ right to privacy. It also traces the transformation of military geography in the lead up to independence, asking how barracks changed cities and how attempts to reorder the empire and the borderland led the colonists to imagine a new nation.

Quarters emphatically refutes the idea that the Quartering Act forced British soldiers in colonial houses, demonstrates the effectiveness of the Quartering Act at generating revenue, and examines aspects of the law long ignored, such as its application in the backcountry and its role in shaping Canadian provinces.

Above all, Quarters argues that the lessons of accommodating British troops outlasted the Revolutionary War, profoundly affecting American notions of place. McCurdy shows that the Quartering Act had significant ramifications, codified in the Third Amendment, for contemporary ideas of the home as a place of domestic privacy, the city as a place without troops, and a nation with a civilian-led military.

“Quarters is a magnificent book of relevance to colonial American and British imperial history; there is much to praise.”

—Colin Nicolson, University of Stirling “I have confidence that Quarters will become the authoritative text on military quartering in British colonial America due to its wide range throughout British America and its close attention to politics.”

—Serena Zabin, Carleton College “Quarters is seriously argued and casts a whole new light on one of the more important Parliamentary enactments of the 1760s. John Gilbert McCurdy’s analysis is a must-read revision of the history of the imperial crisis.”

—Peter Hoffer, University of Georgia

John Gilbert McCurdy is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of Citizen Bachelors.

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Statecraft by Stealth Secret Intelligence and British Rule in Palestine Steven B. Wagner

Britain relied upon secret intelligence operations to rule Mandatory Palestine. Statecraft by Stealth sheds light on a time in history when the murky triad of intelligence, policy, and security supported colonial governance. It emphasizes the role of the Anglo-Zionist partnership, which began during World War I and ended in 1939, when Britain imposed severe limits on Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine.

Steven Wagner argues that although the British devoted considerable attention to intelligence gathering and analysis, they never managed to solve the basic contradiction of their rule: a dual commitment to democratic self-government and to the Jewish national home through immigration and settlement.

As he deftly shows, Britain’s experiment in Palestine shed all pretense of civic order during the Palestinian revolt of 1936–41, when the police authority collapsed and was replaced by a security state, created by army staff intelligence. That shift, Wagner concludes, was rooted in Britain’s desire to foster closer ties with Saudi Arabia just before the start of World War II, and thus ended its support of Zionist policy.

Statecraft by Stealth takes us behind the scenes of British rule, illuminating the success of the Zionist movement and the failure of the Palestinians to achieve independence. Wagner focuses on four key issues to stake his claim: an examination of the “intelligence state” (per Martin Thomas’s classic, Empires of Intelligence), the Arab revolt, the role of the Mufti of Jerusalem, and the origins and consequences of Britain’s decision to end its support of Zionism.

Wagner crafts a superb story of espionage and clandestine policy-making, showing how the British pitted individual communities against each other at particular times, and why.

Steven Wagner is a Lecturer in International Security in the Social and Political Sciences Department at Brunel University.

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“A readable, gripping narrative, resting on an equally impressive source base. Wagner has done remarkable detective work in multilingual archives—including both Hebrew and Arabic—to show how British intelligence was fundamental to power and policy in Mandate Palestine.”

—Michael S. Goodman, King’s College London

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere When Total Empire Met Total War Jeremy A. Yellen

In The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan’s “total empire” met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual colonies understood the concept of the Sphere, offering two sometimes competing, sometimes complementary, and always intertwined visions—one from Japan, the other from Burma and the Philippines.

Yellen argues that, from 1940 to 1945, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere epitomized two concurrent wars for Asia’s future: the first was for a new type of empire in Asia, and the second was a political war, waged by nationalist elites in the colonial capitals of Rangoon and Manila. Exploring Japanese visions for international order in the face of an ever-changing geopolitical situation, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere explores wartime Japan’s desire to shape and control its imperial future while its colonies attempted to do the same. At Japan’s zenith as an imperial power, the Sphere represented a plan for regional domination; by the end of the war, it had been recast as the epitome of cooperative internationalism. In the end, the Sphere could not survive wartime defeat, and Yellen’s lucidly written account reveals much about the desires of Japan as an imperial and colonial power, as well as the ways in which the subdued colonies in Burma and the Philippines jockeyed for agency and a say in the future of the region.

Jeremy A. Yellen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

“A fascinating new study of Japanese decision-making during the Pacific War. Based on research in archives from seven countries and print media in five capitals, it gives ample voice to Japanese subject peoples, offering a powerful corrective to the standard dismissal of colonial leaders as mere ‘collaborators.’”

—Frederick R. Dickinson, author of World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919-1930 “The research foundation of this book is splendid. Yellen’s familiarity of very recent work, especially by Japanese scholars, is impressive. His work in primary archives is deep and broad.”

—Michael A. Barnhart, author of Japan and the World since 1868 “There is no comparable study in the English language. Yellen’s readable approach makes this book an excellent teaching tool for courses on the Pacific War. It will also appeal to general readers interested in learning more about Japan’s challenge to the Western Powers.”

—E. Bruce Reynolds, editor of Japan in the Fascist Era

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A Scrap of Paper Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War Isabel V. Hull

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW BOOK AWARD

In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. She demonstrates how differences in state structures and legal traditions shaped the way the three belligerents fought the war.

Hull focuses on seven cases: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory, the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare, the introduction of new weaponry, and reprisals. A Scrap of Paper reconstructs the debates over military decision-making and clarifies the role law played— where it constrained action, where it was manipulated, where it was ignored, and how it developed in combat—in each case.

A Scrap of Paper is a passionate defense of the role that the law must play to govern interstate relations in both peace and war.

Isabel V. Hull is John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. She is the author of Absolute Destruction and Sexuality, State and Civil Society in Germany, 1700–1815, both from Cornell.

“A Scrap of Paper is an outstanding book and a work of exceptional scholarship.”

—American Journal of International Law “A Scrap of Paper is a strong demonstration of the worth of international law and the laws of war in particular, and vindicates Ms. Hull’s standing as one of our greatest historians of modern European politics.”

—The Wall Street Journal “Isabel V. Hull gives a thorough and thoughtful investigation into one of the war’s trigger points, the legal issues surrounding Germany’s invasion of Belgium.

A Scrap of Paper is a luminous account of war and international law with implications for recent and ongoing world conflicts.”

—Shepherd Express “This book . . . makes a distinct contribution not only to the best hisoriography of the war, but also to the developing body of literature on the intersection of law and international conflict.”

—Canadian Military History

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War Tourism Second World War France from Defeat and Occupation to the Creation of Heritage Bertr am Gordon

As German troops entered Paris following their victory in June 1940, the American journalist William L. Shirer observed that they carried cameras and behaved as “naïve tourists.” One of the first things Hitler did after his victory was to tour occupied Paris, where he was famously photographed in front of the Eiffel Tower.

Focusing on tourism by the German military and both French and German civilians during the war, as well as war-related memory tourism since, War Tourism addresses the fundamental linkages between the two. As Bertram M. Gordon shows, Germans toured occupied France by the thousands in groups organized by their army and guided by suggestions in magazines such as Der Deutsche Wegleiter für Paris [The German Guide for Paris]. Despite the hardships imposed by war and occupation, many French civilians continued to take holidays, facilitated, in part, by the Popular Front legislation of 1936. This practice solidified the idea of workers’ vacations, leading to a postwar surge in tourism.

After the end of the war, the phenomenon of memory tourism transformed sites such as the Maginot Line fortresses. The influx of tourists with links—directly or indirectly—to the war took hold and continues to play a significant economic role in Normandy and elsewhere. As France moved from wartime to a postwar era of reconciliation and European union, memory tourism has held strong and exerts significant influence across the country.

Bertr am Gordon is Professor of European History at Mills College. He is the author of Collaborationism in France during the Second World War and The Historical Dictionary of World War II France.

“Gordon takes readers on a fascinating journey, illuminating how France emerged as a tourist icon between the wars, then thrived during the Second World War and its aftermath. We see that pleasure travel

by German soldiers and French citizens helped to build both a real and imaginary destination location—one that still fuels transatlantic flights.”

—Sandra Ott, author of Living with the Enemy “In this splendid book on the growth of tourism, the reader travels with Gordon to key sites of memory in twentieth-century France. Drawing on French and German archives, Parisian police records, contemporary guide books, films, diaries, and interviews, Gordon displays a dazzling command of European history, tourism, and memory studies.”

—Elizabeth Campbell, author of Defending National Treasures

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The Avars A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567–822 Walter Pohl

The Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian steppes in the mid-sixth century CE and dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. Fierce warriors and canny power brokers, the Avars were more influential and durable than Attila’s Huns, yet have remained hidden in history. Walter Pohl’s epic narrative, translated into English for the first time, restores them to their rightful place in the story of early medieval Europe.

The Avars offers a comprehensive overview of their history, tracing the Avars from the construction of their steppe empire in the center of Europe; their wars and alliances with the Byzantines, Slavs, Lombards, and others; their apex as the first socalled barbarian power to besiege Constantinople (in 626); to their fall under the Frankish armies of Charlemagne and subsequent disappearance as a distinct cultural group. Pohl uncovers the secrets of their society, synthesizing the rich archaeological record recovered from more than 60,000 graves of the period, as well as accounts of the Avars by Byzantine and other chroniclers.

In recovering the story of the fascinating encounter between Eurasian nomads who established an empire in the heart of Europe and the post-Roman Christian cultures of Europe, this book provides a new perspective on the origins of medieval Europe itself.

Walter Pohl is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Vienna, and Director of the Institute of Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is the editor of Visions of Community and Strategies of Identitifcation, and author of numerous works in German.

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“Walter Pohl has succeeded in stripping much of this veil of mystery from the Avars. . . . a heterogeneous group from central Asia who dominated the Byzantine Danube frontier in a complicated relationship that saw raids, wars, trade, and the payment of large annual sums of tribute. In tracing the history of the Avars and the peoples they dominated or fought and traded with, this is an illuminating history of southeast Europe in the early Middle Ages.”

—Speculum “This volume contain a wealth of information and informed discussion; it will repay careful study by anyone involved in the late Roman and early medieval period, and will remain the standard guide into the foreseeable future.”

—English Historical Review

Rising Titans, Falling Giants How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson

As a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states suffering from decline; and it has to do so in a careful and strategic manner. In Rising Titans, Falling Giants Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson focuses on the policies that rising states adopt toward their declining competitors in response to declining states’ policies, and what that means for the relationship between the two.

Rising Titans, Falling Giants integrates disparate approaches to realism into a single theoretical framework, provides new insight into the sources of cooperation and competition in international relations, and offers a new empirical treatment of great power politics at the start and end of the Cold War. Shifrinson challenges the existing historical interpretations of diplomatic history, particularly in terms of the United States-China relationship. Whereas many analysts argue that these two nations are on a collision course, Shifrinson declares instead that rising states often avoid antagonizing those in decline, and highlights episodes that suggest the US-China relationship may prove to be far less conflict-prone than we might expect.

Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Boston University. He has published in International Security, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Quarterly, and other venues.

“Rising Titans, Falling Giants fills a gap in the literature that had until now not been properly researched: how do rising states formulate their strategy toward their declining peers. Its theory is precise; the historical evidence it presents is convincing and sometimes novel. A must-read for those interested in world politics.”

—Nuno Monteiro, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of International Security Studies, Yale University “Rising Titans, Falling Giants provides an insightful and innovative interpretation of international behavior. It should be read and pondered by all those wishing to understand American foreign policy today.”

—Jack Matlock, author of Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended, and Superpower Illusions.

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The Commander’s Dilemma Violence and Restraint in Wartime Amelia Hoover Green

Why do some military and rebel groups commit many types of violence, creating an impression of senseless chaos, whereas others carefully control violence against civilians? A classic catch-22 faces the leaders of armed groups and provides the title for Amelia Hoover Green’s book. Leaders need large groups of people willing to kill and maim—but to do so only under strict control. How can commanders control violence when fighters who are not under direct supervision experience extraordinary stress, fear, and anger? The Commander’s Dilemma argues that discipline is not enough in wartime. Restraint occurs when fighters know why they are fighting and believe in the cause— that is, when commanders invest in political education.

Drawing on extraordinary evidence about state and nonstate groups in El Salvador, and extending her argument to the Mano River wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, Amelia Hoover Green shows that investments in political education can improve human rights outcomes even where rational incentives for restraint are weak—and that groups whose fighters lack a sense of purpose may engage in massive violence even where incentives for restraint are strong. Hoover Green concludes that high levels of violence against civilians should be considered a “default setting,” not an aberration.

Amelia Hoover Green is Assistant Professor of Politics at Drexel University and a consultant to the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG). At Drexel, she teaches courses in comparative politics, research methods, and armed conflict; for HRDAG, she has consulted on wartime rights violations in Kosovo, Liberia, El Salvador, and other places. She lives in Philadelphia with her family.

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“Amelia Hoover Green’s project has been carried through with scrupulous attention to detail. I am extremely impressed by the care with which Hoover Green developed her theory on how military commanders succeed (or fail) in socializing soldiers to exercise violence in battle yet treat civilians in a deliberately nonviolent way.”

—Leigh Binford, College of Staten Island, City University of New York “The Commander’s Dilemma is a must-read book that makes a novel contribution to the literature of civilian victimization during civil war. Focusing on repertoires of armed group violence, Hoover Green focuses on the links between political education and practices of both violence and restraint. Hoover Green provides a model for how an author can engage in ethical and personal reflections while presenting a coherent and well-defended argument.”

—Erica Chenoweth, University of Denver

Covert Regime Change America’s Secret Cold War Lindsey A. O’Rourke

States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d’état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups.

In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O’Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O’Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene.

Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. Preventive operations seek to stop a state from taking certain actions, such as joining a rival alliance, that may make them a future security threat. Hegemonic operations try to maintain a hierarchical relationship between the intervening state and the target government. Despite the prevalence of covert attempts at regime change, most operations fail to remain covert and spark blowback in unanticipated ways.

Covert Regime Change assembles an original dataset of all American regime change operations during the Cold War. This fund of information shows the United States was ten times more likely to try covert rather than overt regime change during the Cold War. Her dataset allows O’Rourke to address three foundational questions: What motivates states to attempt foreign regime change? Why do states prefer to conduct these operations covertly rather than overtly? How successful are such missions in achieving their foreign policy goals?

“Fantastic. . . . A well-written, important work that should productively inform foreign-policy debates going forward, particularly in the post–Iraq, post–Libya world where we can see, fully on display, the destructive power of regime change gone wrong. . . . O’Rourke’s book should be essential reading.”

—The National Interest “Covert action to change foreign governments is exceptionally controversial, hard to research, and usually explored only by journalists. All who read this book will be impressed with the depth, detail, and clarity of Lindsey O’Rourke’s analysis. No other academic study of the question tops this one.”

—Richard Betts, Columbia University

Lindsey A. O’Rourke is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Her research focuses on regime change, international security, and US foreign policy.

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Armed with Expertise The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War Joy Rohde

During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. Yet the controversy it inspired was not new. Decades earlier, similar national security concerns brought the Department of Defense and American social scientists together in the search for intellectual weapons that could combat the spread of communism during the Cold War. In Armed with Expertise, Joy Rohde traces the optimistic rise, anguished fall, and surprising rebirth of Cold War-era military-sponsored social research.

Beginning in the 1950s, political scientists, social psychologists, and anthropologists optimistically applied their expertise to military problems, convinced that their work would enhance democracy around the world. As Rohde shows, by the late 1960s, a growing number of scholars and activists condemned Pentagon-funded social scientists as handmaidens of a technocratic warfare state and sought to eliminate military-sponsored research from American intellectual life.

But the Pentagon’s social research projects had remarkable institutional momentum and intellectual flexibility. Instead of severing their ties to the military, the Pentagon’s experts relocated to a burgeoning network of private consulting agencies and for-profit research offices. In examining the controversies over Cold War social science, Rohde reveals the persistent militarization of American political and intellectual life, a phenomenon that continues to raise grave questions about the relationship between expert knowledge and American democracy.

Joy Rohde is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

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“In an age when research funding has never seemed more important to academics’ career prospects, Armed with Expertise offers a historical lesson worth heeding.”

—Times Higher Education Supplement “A significant, highly readable, relevant contribution to understanding the relationship between social science expertise and the US national security state. . . . Recent authorized and unauthorized revelations . . . suggest that Rohde’s work has much to say to Americans today. Summing Up: Highly recommended.”

—Choice “Crisply written and carefully documented, Armed with Expertise shows that militarization did not end after the Vietnam War; it merely went underground, ready to resurface for a new war on terror.”

—Journal of American History “Rohde’s compelling book offers an invaluable guide to that shadowy world in its formative decades.”

—American Historical Review

Memories of War Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic Thomas A. Chambers

Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the nation forged its independence. Decades after the signing of the Constitution, the battlefields of Yorktown, Saratoga, Fort Moultrie, Ticonderoga, Guilford Courthouse, Kings Mountain, and Cowpens, among others, were unmarked except for crumbling forts and overgrown ramparts. Not until the late 1820s did Americans begin to recognize the importance of these places.

In Memories of War, Thomas A. Chambers recounts America’s rediscovery of its early national history through the rise of battlefield tourism in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Travelers in this period, Chambers finds, wanted more than recitations of regimental movements when they visited battlefields; they desired experiences that evoked strong emotions and leant meaning to the bleached bones and decaying fortifications of a past age. Chambers traces this impulse through efforts to commemorate Braddock’s Field and Ticonderoga, the cultivated landscapes masking the violent past of the Hudson River valley, the overgrown ramparts of Southern war sites, and the scenic vistas at War of 1812 battlefields along the Niagara River. Describing a progression from neglect to the Romantic embrace of the landscape and then to ritualized remembrance, Chambers brings his narrative up to the beginning of the Civil War, during and after which the memorialization of such sites became routine, assuming significant political and cultural power in the American imagination.

Thomas A. Chambers is Associate Professor of History at Niagara University. He is the author of Drinking the Waters: Creating an American Leisure Class at Nineteenth Century Mineral Springs.

“Americans in the early republic had trouble escaping war’s shadow. According to Thomas A. Chambers, [battlefield tourism] contoured the nation’s public memory as much as any patriotic oration or celebration. Chambers has moved the debate about public memory into new territory. This is a valuable book that demands respect from historians of the early republic.”

—Journal of American History “Chambers explores how and why key American battlefields became memorials and tourist attractions, and the potentially powerful psychological and emotional effect these sites can have on visitors evoking the past. Fascinating and original, this is recommended to scholars and informed readers of American military and cultural history.”

—Library Journal “This fascinating study offers a close examination of just how overgrown fields and crumbling fortresses came to be reclaimed as objects worthy of preservation and visitation.”

—The Weekly Standard

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14/18—Rupture or Continuity Belgian Art around World War I edited by Inga Rossi-Schrimpf and L aur a Kollwelter

World War I had a major effect on Belgian visual arts. German occupation, the horror at the battlefield and the experience of exile, led to multiple narratives and artistic expressions by Belgian artists during and after the war. Belgian interbellum art is extremely vibrant and diverse. 14/18 – Rupture or Continuity takes a look at Belgian artistic life in the years around the First World War and how it was affected by this event. The Great War was a catalyst of artistic oppositions, leading on one hand to a Belgian avant-garde that explored new forms and styles, while continuing to uphold a more traditional and established art on the other. Whereas the war experience consolidated an already present style for some artists, for others it constituted a revolution leading to new artistic adventures. The collection of essays highlights these contrasting facets of Belgian art in its rich historical context during the early 20th century.

Inga Rossi-Schrimpf is the curator of modern works on paper (19th–21st century) at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and Coordinating Curator of the Fin-de-Siècle Museum, Brussels, Belgium.

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Contributors: Werner Adriaenssens (Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels), Erik Buelinckx (Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels), Sophie de Schaepdrijver (Pennsylvania State University), Ole W. Fischer (University of Utah, Salt Lake City), Eva Francioli (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Laura Kollwelter (Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels), Christina Kott (Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2), Françoise Lucbert (Université Laval, Québec), Peter Pauwels (independent art historian, Antwerp), Hubert Roland (F.R.S. – FNRS / Université Catholique de Louvain), Inga RossiSchrimpf (Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels), Sergio Servellón (FeliXart Museum, Drogenbos), Sandrine Smets (Royal Museum of Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels), Hans Vandevoorde (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Caterine Verdickt (Universiteit Antwerpen)

Twilight of the Titans Great Power Decline and Retrenchment Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent

In this bold new perspective on the United States–China power transition, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine all great power transitions since 1870. They find that declining and rising powers have strong incentives to moderate their behavior at moments when the hierarchy of great powers is shifting. How do great powers respond to decline? they ask. What options do great powers have to slow or reverse their descent?

In Twilight of the Titans, MacDonald and Parent challenge claims that policymakers for great powers, unwilling to manage decline through moderation, will be pushed to extreme measures. Tough talk, intimidation, provocation, and preventive war, they write, are not the only alternatives to defeat. Surprisingly, retrenchment tends not to make declining states tempting prey for other states nor does it promote domestic dysfunction. What retrenchment does encourage is resurrection. Only states that retrench have recovered their former position.

MacDonald and Parent show how declining states tend to behave, what policy options they have to choose from, how rising states respond to decline, and what conditions reward which strategies. Using case studies that include Great Britain in 1872 and 1908, Russia in 1888 and 1903, and France in 1893 and 1924, Twilight of the Titans offers clear evidence that declining powers have a wide array of options at their disposal and offers guidance on how to use the right tools at the right time. The result is a comprehensive rethinking of power transition and hegemonic war theories and a different approach to the policy problems that declining states face. What matters most, the authors write, is the strategic choices made by the great powers.

Paul K. MacDonald is associate professor of political science at Wellesley College. He is author of Networks of Domination.

“A meaningful contribution to the debate about whether the decline of a great power is to be feared as a cause of war in the international system. Parent and McDonald took a big, important question and tried to find an answer by aggregating what we know about both great powers and their mid-level counterparts. It is not simply an interesting academic question; they make a very strong case that fighting preventive wars is self-defeating for declining powers.”

—The Atlantic “A terrific contribution to the debate over the so-called Thucydides trap. . . . So much good data, smart analysis, and beautiful writing.”

—War on the Rocks “Unique, convincing and important.”

—Survival

Joseph M. Parent is associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Uniting States and coauthor of American Conspiracy Theories.

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Objects of War The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement edited by Leor a Ausl ander and Tar a Zahr a

Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool.

And yet the profession tends to be suspicious of things; words are its stock-in-trade. What new insights can historians gain about the past by thinking about things? A central object (and consequence) of modern warfare is the radical destruction and transformation of the material world. And yet we know little about the role of material culture in the history of war and forced displacement: objects carried in flight; objects stolen on battlefields; objects expropriated, reappropriated, and remembered.

Objects of War illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals wrought by war and forced displacement. Chapters consider theft and pillaging as strategies of conquest; soldiers’ relationships with their weapons; and the use of clothing and domestic goods by prisoners of war, extermination camp inmates, freed people, and refugees to make claims and to create a kind of normalcy.

While studies of migration and material culture have proliferated in recent years, as have histories of the Napoleonic, colonial, World Wars, and postcolonial wars, few have focused on the movement of people and things in times of war across two centuries. This focus, in combination with a broad temporal canvas, serves historians and others well as they seek to push beyond the written word.

Leor a Ausl ander is Professor of European Social History and Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Cultural Revolutions and Taste and Power.

Tar a Zahr a is Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Kidnapped Souls, The Lost Children, and The Great Departure.

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“This volume offers readers a fresh perspective on war, displacement, and the significance of materiality to those who flee, those who fleece them, and to the objects themselves.”

—Leslie Moch, Michigan State University “An inspiring, well-written volume that explores, through fascinating case studies, the symbolic meaning that objects—from things as little as a piece of textile, to those as grand as a palace—gain in times of war and forced migration.”

—Gregor Thum, University of Pittsburgh Contributors: Noah Benninga, Sandra H. Dudley, Bonnie Effros, Cathleen M. Giustino, Alice Goff, Gerdien Jonker, Aubrey Pomerance, Iris Rachamimov, Brandon M. Schechter, Jeffrey Wallen, and Sarah Jones Weicksel

The Control Agenda A History of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Mat thew J. Ambrose

The Control Agenda is a sweeping account of the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), their rise in the Nixon and Ford administrations, their downfall under President Carter, and their powerful legacies in the Reagan years and beyond.

Matthew Ambrose pays close attention to the interplay of diplomacy, domestic politics, and technology, and finds that the SALT process was a key point of reference for arguments regarding all forms of Cold War decision making. Ambrose argues elite US decision makers used SALT to better manage their restive domestic populations and to exert greater control over the shape, structure, and direction of their nuclear arsenals.

Ambrose also asserts that prolonged engagement with arms control issues introduced dynamic effects into nuclear policy.

Arms control considerations came to influence most areas of defense decision making, while the measure of stability SALT provided allowed the examination of new and potentially dangerous nuclear doctrines. The Control Agenda makes clear that verification and compliance concerns by the United States prompted continuous reassessments of Soviet capabilities and intentions; assessments that later undergirded key US policy changes toward the Soviet Union. Through SALT’s many twists and turns, accusations and countercharges, secret backchannels and propaganda campaigns the specter of nuclear conflict loomed large.

“Ambrose is no ideologue or partisan. He is clear that the collapse of arms-limitation negotiations would have been far worse than the flawed process. But he is cleareyed about how efforts at arms reduction struggled in the face of stronger factors.”

—Survival “Matthew Ambrose has written a superb account of the history of the SALT process of arms control. I know of no book that tells this story from Nixon through Reagan.

The Control Agenda fills a huge gap in the literature and I predict it will stand the test of time.”

—Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

Mat thew Ambrose received a PhD in History from The Ohio State University. He previously worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Historical Office, and is is currently a Defense Analyst for the Government Accountability Office. He lives with his family in Arlington, Virginia.

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Stopping the Bomb The Sources and Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy Nichol as L . Miller

Stopping the Bomb examines the historical development and effectiveness of American efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Nicholas L. Miller offers here a novel theory that argues changes in American nonproliferation policy are the keys to understanding the nuclear landscape from the 1960s onward.

The Chinese and Indian nuclear tests in the 1960s and 1970s forced the US government, Miller contends, to pay new and considerable attention to the idea of nonproliferation and to reexamine its foreign policies. Stopping the Bomb explores the role of the United States in combating the spread of nuclear weapons, an area often ignored to date. He explains why these changes occurred and how effective US policies have been in preventing countries from seeking and acquiring nuclear weapons. Miller’s findings highlight the relatively rapid move from a permissive approach toward allies acquiring nuclear weapons to a more universal nonproliferation policy no matter whether friend or foe.

Four in-depth case studies of US nonproliferation policy— toward Taiwan, Pakistan, Iran, and France—elucidate how the United States can compel countries to reverse ongoing nuclear weapons programs. Miller’s findings in Stopping the Bomb have important implications for the continued study of nuclear proliferation, US nonproliferation policy, and beyond.

Nichol as L . Miller is Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He has previously published articles in the American Political Science Review, Security Studies, International Organization, and International Security.

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“This is an intense and meticulously sourced study on the topic of nuclear weapons proliferation, beginning with America’s introduction of the Atomic Age. Miller has refitted his doctoral dissertation theorizing on the extent of the effectiveness of America’s foreign policy to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons. His book provides a full explanation of America’s policy with a time sequence necessarily focusing on the domino effect of states acquiring a nuclear weapons capability and the import of bureaucratic decisions on international political behavior.”

—Choice “This book offers elegant theory and compelling evidence on the sources and efficacy of US nonproliferation efforts.

Countering the claim that ‘sanctions don’t work,’ Miller outlines the conditions under which they can be consequential. A musthave resource for experts and a growing audience attentive to these issues.”

—Etel Solingen, University of California Irvine

Wars of Law Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict Tanisha M. Fazal

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION LAW SECTION ANNUAL BOOK AWARD

In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement, conduct, and conclusion of wars over the course of the past one hundred fifty years.

After a brief history of the codification of international humanitarian law (IHL), Fazal outlines three main arguments: early laws of war favored belligerents but more recent additions have constrained them; this shift may be attributable to a growing divide between lawmakers and those who must comply with IHL; and lawmakers have been consistently inattentive to how rebel groups might receive these laws.

By using the laws of war strategically, Fazal suggests, belligerents in both interstate and civil wars relate those laws to their big-picture goals. In Wars of Law, we learn that, as codified IHL proliferates and changes in character—with an ever-greater focus on protected persons—states fighting interstate wars become increasingly reluctant to step over any bright lines that unequivocally oblige them to comply with IHL. On the other hand, Fazal argues, secessionists fighting wars for independence are more likely to engage with the laws of war because they have strong incentives to persuade the international community that, if admitted to the club of states, they will be good and capable members of that club.

Why have states stopped issuing formal declarations of war?

Why have states stopped concluding formal peace treaties? Why are civil wars especially likely to end in peace treaties today?

Addressing such basic questions about international conflict, Fazal provides a lively and intriguing account of the implications of the laws of war.

“You know what states rarely do nowadays?

Issue formal declarations of war. You know why? Of course you don’t, because you’re not Tanisha Fazal, who knows more about the laws of war than you do. So you should read her book.”

—The Washington Post “Intriguing. . . . Skillfully blends quantitative and qualitative methods to produce something genuinely original.”

—Foreign Affairs

Tanisha M. Fazal is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation, winner of the Best Book Award of the APSA Conflict Processes Section.

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Philosophers at the Front Phenomenology and the First World War edited by Nicol as de Warren and Thomas Vongehr

The First World War witnessed an unprecedented mobilization of philosophers: as soldiers at the front, as public figures on the home front, as nurses in field hospitals; as mothers and wives, sons and fathers in wartime. In Germany, the war irrupted in the midst of the rapid growth of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological movement – widely considered one of the most significant philosophical movements in twentieth century thought. Philosophers at the Front offers a documentary history of phenomenology in the First World War. Through an exceptional collection of primary source materials (letters, postcards, original writings, photographs) from the Husserl Archives in Leuven, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and the Archives of the University of Göttingen, the complex narratives of how the war affected the lives and thought of central figures in the phenomenological movement are charted. Key figures such as Edmund Husserl, his sons Wolfgang and Gerhart, Max Scheler, Edith Stein, Adolf Reinach, Martin Heidegger, and others are included in this collection of materials.

The volume includes reproductions of original material, as well as German transcription of all texts and their English translation.

Nicol as de Warren is professor of philosophy at the Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy / Husserl Archives at KU Leuven.

Thomas Vongehr studied philosophy in Munich and obtained his PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in 1995.

Since 2002, he is assistant at the Husserl Archives at KU Leuven.

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Dangerous Guests Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence Ken Miller

In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisoners—both British regulars and their so-called Hessian auxiliaries—in makeshift detention camps far from the fighting. As the Americans’ principal site for incarcerating enemy prisoners of war, Lancaster stood at the nexus of two vastly different revolutionary worlds: one national, the other intensely local. Captives came under the control of local officials loosely supervised by state and national authorities.

Concentrating the prisoners in the heart of their communities brought the revolutionaries’ enemies to their doorstep, with residents now facing a daily war at home.

Many prisoners openly defied their hosts, fleeing, plotting, and rebelling, often with the clandestine support of local loyalists. By early 1779, General George Washington, furious over the captives’ ongoing attempts to subvert the American war effort, branded them “dangerous guests in the bowels of our Country.”

The challenge of creating an autonomous national identity in the newly emerging United States was nowhere more evident than in Lancaster, where the establishment of a detention camp served as a flashpoint for new conflict in a community already unsettled by stark ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences.

Many Lancaster residents soon sympathized with the Hessians detained in their town while the loyalist population considered the British detainees to be the true patriots of the war. Miller demonstrates that in Lancaster, the notably local character of the war reinforced not only preoccupations with internal security but also novel commitments to cause and country.

“Ken Miller makes and original and important contribution to our understanding of the American Revolution. . . Dangerous Guests is an original, engaging work that stands as an important community study as well as an examination of the rebel treatment of prisoners of war during the War of Independence. It deserves a wide readership.”

—Journal of Early American History “As Miller notes at the outset, Dangerous Guests is a ‘case study of revolutionary Lancaster’ (p. 5). And as such, it is an important and intriguing book that broadens our understanding of the ways a local community was transformed by the arrival of large numbers of enemy captives during the War of American Independence.”

—Journal of the Early Republic

Ken Miller is Associate Professor of History at Washington College.

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Cauldron of Resistance Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam Jessica M. Chapman

In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chiefof-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam. The United States sanctioned the results of this election, which was widely condemned as fraudulent, and provided substantial economic aid and advice to the RVN. Because of this, Diem is often viewed as a mere puppet of the United States, in service of its Cold War geopolitical strategy. That narrative, Jessica M. Chapman contends in Cauldron of Resistance, grossly oversimplifies the complexity of South Vietnam’s domestic politics and, indeed, Diem’s own political savvy.

Based on extensive work in Vietnamese, French, and American archives, Chapman offers a detailed account of three crucial years, 1953–1956, during which a new Vietnamese political order was established in the south. It is, in large part, a history of Diem’s political ascent as he managed to subdue the former Emperor Bao Dai, the armed Hoa Hao and Cao Dai religious organizations, and the Binh Xuyen crime organization. It is also an unparalleled account of these same outcast political powers, forces that would reemerge as destabilizing political and military actors in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Chapman shows Diem to be an engaged leader whose personalist ideology influenced his vision for the new South Vietnamese state, but also shaped the policies that would spell his demise. Washington’s support for Diem because of his staunch anticommunism encouraged him to employ oppressive measures to suppress dissent, thereby contributing to the alienation of his constituency, and helped inspire the organized opposition to his government that would emerge by the late 1950s and eventually lead to the Vietnam War. Jessic a M. Chapman is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College.

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“Chapman delivers a nuanced yet accessible analysis of the political scene in 1950s-era southern Vietnam. This book will be of interest to those who wish to learn more about the origins of US involvement in Vietnam prior to the war.

Readers will gain an understanding not only of Ngo Dinh Diem, but also of the other major noncommunist politico-religious groups struggling for power. . . .

Summing Up: Highly recommended.”

—Choice “Skillfully argued, Cauldron of Resistance marks an impressive advancement in the study of Ngo Dinh Diem and the Republic of Vietnam. All readers will find Chapman’s work informative. Historians in particular will appreciate the author’s recreation of the political landscape of southern Vietnam during the formative years of Diem’s rise to power. All libraries are incomplete without this book.”

—H-War

The End of Grand Strategy US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski

In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America’s military actually does, day to day. They argue that a series of fundamental recent changes in the global system, the inevitable jostling of bureaucratic politics, and the practical limitations of field operations combine to ensure that each presidential administration inevitably resorts to a variety of strategies.

Proponents of different American grand strategies have historically focused on the pivotal role of the Navy. In response, Reich and Dombrowski examine six major maritime operations, each of which reflects one major strategy. One size does not fit all, say the authors—the attempt to impose a single overarching blueprint is no longer feasible. Reich and Dombrowski declare that grand strategy, as we know it, is dead. The End of Grand Strategy is essential reading for policymakers, military strategists, and analysts and critics at advocacy groups and think tanks.

Simon Reich is Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of Global Norms, American Sponsorship and the Emerging Patterns of World Politics and coauthor most recently of Good-bye Hegemony!.

Peter Dombrowski is Professor in the Strategic Research Department at the Naval War College. He is the coeditor of The Indian Ocean and US Grand Strategy and Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective.

“The End of Grand Strategy should be widely read, first, to distinguish grand strategy from traditional strategy. . . .

The second reason to read Reich and Dombrowski is to see the difficulties 21st-century decision makers confront in preparing to fight. . . . Today, a strategy’s aim almost always should be to establish what constitutes a satisfactory outcome rather than a clear-cut victory. A grand strategic goal should be expressed in terms of control that may take a long time to achieve and require great patience. I think Reich and Dombrowski have implied as much, and that is one more reason for reading their fine book.”

—Proceedings “Reich and Dombrowski’s approach offers a description of US grand strategic theory found in no other text and a set of developed case studies that flesh out each identified strategic approach. . . .

The End of Grand Strategy presents highly comprehensible policy overviews and histories of each topic engaged with.”

—H-NET Reviews

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Over the Horizon Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers David M. Edelstein

How do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a dilemma with regard to China and others over whether to embrace competition and thus substantial present-day costs or collaborate with its rivals to garner short-term gains while letting them become more powerful.

This problem lends considerable urgency to the lessons to be learned from Over the Horizon. David M. Edelstein analyzes past rising powers in his search for answers that point the way forward for the United States as it strives to maintain control over its competitors.

Edelstein focuses on the time horizons of political leaders and the effects of long-term uncertainty on decision-making. He notes how state leaders tend to procrastinate when dealing with long-term threats, hoping instead to profit from short-term cooperation, and are reluctant to act precipitously in an uncertain environment. To test his novel theory, Edelstein uses lessons learned from history’s great powers: late nineteenth-century Germany, the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, interwar Germany, and the Soviet Union at the origins of the Cold War. Over the Horizon demonstrates that cooperation between declining and rising powers is more common than we might think, although declining states may later regret having given upstarts time to mature into true threats.

David M. Edelstein is Associate Professor of International Affairs in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Center for Security Studies, and Department of Government at Georgetown University. He is the author of Occupational Hazards.

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“Over the Horizon asks important questions, provides clear arguments, and delivers an elegant theory that pushes Realist scholarship in new directions.”

—H-War “Edelstein provides a timely analysis of the relations between established and rising great powers in order to determine why variations between cooperation and competition occur between them.”

—Choice “Edelstein has issued a clarion call for scholars to directly study states’ temporal calculations and how these calculations affect foreign policy.”

—Political Science Quarterly

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