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Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-41 on Kramer, The Fate of the Soviet Bloc’s Military Alliance The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991 marked the formal end of the Soviet Bloc’s principal military alliance and closed a central institutional chapter of the Cold War in Europe. Yet the alliance’s rapid…

H-Diplo Review 661: Margaret Crosby reviews Michael Carley, _Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies Against Hitler, 1930–1936_; Carley, _Stalin’s Failed Alliance: The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936–1939_; Carley, _Stalin’s Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939–1941_. hdiplo.org/to/R661

"Chaos Unleashed: The Second Trump Administration and the Future of the Liberal International Order" "Trump’s Commercial Realism" by Randall L. Schweller. issforum.org/to/CU-4

H-Diplo Article Review 1264: Telepneva on Unfried, "Internationalism, Cooperation and Personal Entanglements between Cuba, the German Democratic Republic, and Angola in the Socialist World" hdiplo.org/to/AR1264

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-42 on Davy, Defrosting the Cold War and Beyond The historical record of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and its successor, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has been a mixed one. In general, scholars of Cold War…

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-39 on Walker, States-in-Waiting On 14 August 2025, a range of student, church, religious, and other organizations representing the Naga community in India celebrated the 78th anniversary of the Naga state’s declaration of independence on 15 August 1947. The date passed…

The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991 marked the formal end of the Soviet Bloc’s principal military alliance and closed a central institutional chapter of the Cold War in Europe. Yet the alliance’s rapid unraveling in the late 1980s and ultimate disappearance has often occupied the margins of accounts of the Cold War’s end, overshadowed by more familiar developments such as the upheavals of 1989, German unification, and the collapse of the Soviet Union itself.

Jervis Forum Review 185: Parker on Katz and Bohbot, While Israel Slept Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot have written the first detailed book account of the 2023 Hamas attack against Israel and particularly why Israel let down its defenses.[1] They argue that the Israeli mistakes took place on many…

Jervis Forum Review 184: Hartung on Youngs, Feminist International Relations through a Technospatial Lens In Feminist International Relations through a Technospatial Lens: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Gillian Youngs provides a compelling case for taking a feminist interdisciplinary approach to…

On 14 August 2025, a range of student, church, religious, and other organizations representing the Naga community in India celebrated the 78th anniversary of the Naga state’s declaration of independence on 15 August 1947. The date passed without notice in the Western media, but was greeted warmly by the Secretary of General of the Unrepresented People’s Organization (UNPO), which was created in 1991 to advocate for the Naga, Uyghur, Tibetans, and other “states-in-waiting” for whom the era of UN-sponsored decolonization represented the closure rather than the fulfillment of their ambitions.

Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot have written the first detailed book account of the 2023 Hamas attack against Israel and particularly why Israel let down its defenses.[1] They argue that the Israeli mistakes took place on many different levels. First, there were several intelligence failures. As is sometimes the case with surprise attacks, junior Israeli field intelligence analysts were aware that the enemy was practicing over a period of months the very attack that it later carried out and flagged this.

adison Schramm’s Why Democracies Fight Dictators makes important contributions to the study of political regimes and international conflict and of the relationship between cognitive biases, emotion…

In Feminist International Relations through a Technospatial Lens: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Gillian Youngs provides a compelling case for taking a feminist interdisciplinary approach to questions of power and empowerment in a world that is structured by information and communication technologies and digital connectivity. As the title indicates, the book is squarely located within feminist international relations theory, in particular the field of international political economy, and focuses on how the effects of technological developments materialize in relation to questions of spatiality.

The historical record of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and its successor, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has been a mixed one. In general, scholars of Cold War history have had difficulty in getting the balance right with the CSCE. Its significance has been both over- and underestimated, especially its contribution, or its irrelevance, to the largely peaceful end of the Cold War and how transnational human rights activism and institutionalized multilateral diplomacy contributed to it.