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Tact and Intelligence: Essays on Diplomatic History and International Relations
2007Co-Authors: Gordon A. Craig, Bruce A. Thompson, Carolyn Halladay, Donald AbenheimAbstract:Foreword by James J. SheehanEditors' Note PART ONE: The Historian's Craft1. On the Nature of Diplomatic History: The Relevance of Some Old Books2. On the Pleasure of Reading Diplomat Correspondence3. The Historian and the Study of International Relations PART TWO: The Balance of Power4. The System of Alliances and the Balance of Power5. Europe and the Balance of Power, 1871-19146. The Founding Fathers and the Balance of Power7. The United States and the European Balance8. Germany and the United States: Some Historic Parallels and Differences and their Reflection in Attitudes Toward Foreign Policy PART THREE: Between the Wars9. Prewar Diplomacy in Europe10. Munich: The Price of Peace11. Dangerous Liaisons PART FOUR: The Second World War and Beyond12. Roosevelt and Hitler: The Problem of Perception13. Diplomats and Diplomacy During the Second World War14. Churchill and Germany15. The Good Soldier16. Looking for Order REFERENCE MATTERNotesBibliographical NoteIndex
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On the Pleasure of Reading Diplomatic Correspondence
Journal of Contemporary History, 1991Co-Authors: Gordon A. CraigAbstract:Some years ago, in an article in the American Historical Review, I suggested various reasons for the relative lack of interest in Diplomatic History among young historians. In particular, I noted that precisely because Diplomatic History, with political History in general, had for so long been the principal form of historical research and teaching, it had come to appear old-fashioned and lacking in either the glamour associated with the new deconstructionist theories of intellectual History or the excitement with which mechanical techniques of measurement and analysis were now investing economic and social History. The fact that it was associated with international friction and violence did not help Diplomatic History either, making it appear, indeed, to be a preoccupation appropriate only for superannuated cold warriors. What Charles S. Maier has called 'a bad conscience about the legitimacy of American power' after Vietnam contributed to this feeling, making the study of the relationships and rivalries of the Great Powers distasteful to many scholars.'
Robert J. Mcmahon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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guide to u s foreign policy a Diplomatic History
2012Co-Authors: Robert J. Mcmahon, Thomas W. ZeilerAbstract:At no time in American History has an understanding of the role and the art of diplomacy in international relations been more essential than it is today. Both the History of United States Diplomatic relations and the current United States foreign policy in the 21st century are major topics of study and interest in America and around the world. Spanning the entire History of American diplomacy - from the first Continental Congress, to the war on terrorism, to the foreign policy goals of the 21st century - Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy traces not only the growth and development of Diplomatic policies and traditions, but also the shifts in public opinion that shape Diplomatic trends. This comprehensive, two-volume reference shows how the United States gained 'the strength of a giant' and also analyzes key world events that have determined the United States' changing relations with other nations. A three-part structure makes the key concepts and issues accessible to researchers: Part One features 40 topical and historical chapters, in which expert writers cover the Diplomatic initiatives of the United States from colonial times through the present day. Part Two is an A to Z handbook of Diplomatic terms and concepts, people, events, and issues in American foreign policy. Part Three features a collection of annotated primary source documents that support the work. This unique reference highlights the changes in U.S. Diplomatic policy as government administrations and world events influenced national decisions. Topics include imperialism, economic diplomacy, environmental diplomacy, foreign aid, wartime negotiations, presidential influence, NATO and its role in the twenty-first century, and the response to terrorism. Additional featured topics include the influence of the American two-party system, the impact of U.S. elections, and the role of the United States in international organizations. Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy is the first comprehensive reference work in this field that is both historical and thematic. This work will be of immense value for researchers, students, and others studying foreign policy, international relations, and U.S History.
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Diplomatic History and Policy History: Finding Common Ground
Journal of Policy History, 2005Co-Authors: Robert J. McmahonAbstract:It is difficult to imagine two fields of scholarly inquiry with so much in common and yet so little interaction as Diplomatic and policy History. Policy, policy process, policymakers, policy origins, policy intentions, policy consequences—those terms and ones of a similar stripe roll just as easily off the tongues and word processors of Diplomatic historians as of self-described policy historians. Moreover, the questions asked and the methods employed by the two groups of scholars bear a striking resemblance. Both fields focus perforce on the state and state-centered actors, concern themselves with elite-level decision making, interrogate fundamental issues of power within societies, and concentrate overwhelmingly on the twentieth century to the relative neglect of earlier periods. Each field occupies as well an embattled position within the larger historical profession, where social and cultural History have predominated since the 1960s.
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Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations: Toward a Pluralist Vision : The Study of American Foreign Relations as International History and National History
Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, 2004Co-Authors: Robert J. McmahonAbstract:So many signs of robust health abound that one might speak without too much exaggeration of an emergent renaissance in the study of U.S. Diplomatic History. For close to a decade now, annual meetings of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) have attracted between 300 and 400 participants, extraordinary figures for any subdiscipline. Those meetings, moreover, have included a growing contingent of scholars from outside the United States, offering unmistakable evidence of the burgeoning internationalization of the study of U.S. foreign relations. SHAFR now boasts close to 1,700 members, over 300 of whom are non-Americans. Diplomatic History , the society's flagship journal, remains not just vibrant in terms of the quality and diversity of its essays, reviews, forums, and think pieces, but highly innovative as well, regularly showcasing work that pushes the traditional boundaries of the field in challenging new directions. And Diplomatic History finds itself competing for article submissions with the growing number of rival journals also devoted principally to scholarship on the History of international relations: International History Review (established in 1978), the Journal of American-East Asian Relations (1992), the Journal of Cold War Studies (1999), and Cold War History (2000) chief among them. University and commercial publishers continue actively to solicit manuscripts on U.S. Diplomatic History, some of which even manage to attract enthusiastic readerships outside academe.
Acuto Michele - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Not quite the dragon: A 'Chinese' view on the Six Party Talks, 2002-8
International History Review, 2012Co-Authors: Acuto MicheleAbstract:Despite the never-ending criticism, Beijing's new diplomacy has fostered fertile ground on which multilateral security arrangements might flourish, albeit slowly. In this view, this article argues for a re-reading of the Diplomatic History of the Six Party Talks that can render justice to the pivotal role of Beijing in maintaining a continuous process. By re-tracing the Diplomatic History of the Talks on North Korea's nuclear capabilities during the period 2002-8, it investigates this process against the background of China's evolving multilateral posture. The Chinese Diplomatic style of the Talks, reconciliatory, multilayered, and open-ended, might represent the best chance for security multilateralism in North-East Asia despite the uncertainties about the effectiveness of the Party. © 2012 Taylor & Francis.
Michele Acuto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Not Quite the Dragon: A ‘Chinese’ view on the Six Party Talks, 2002–8
The International History Review, 2012Co-Authors: Michele AcutoAbstract:Despite the never-ending criticism, Beijing's new diplomacy has fostered fertile ground on which multilateral security arrangements might flourish, albeit slowly. In this view, this article argues for a re-reading of the Diplomatic History of the Six Party Talks that can render justice to the pivotal role of Beijing in maintaining a continuous process. By re-tracing the Diplomatic History of the Talks on North Korea's nuclear capabilities during the period 2002–8, it investigates this process against the background of China's evolving multilateral posture. The Chinese Diplomatic style of the Talks, reconciliatory, multilayered, and open-ended, might represent the best chance for security multilateralism in North-East Asia despite the uncertainties about the effectiveness of the Party.
Thomas W. Zeiler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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guide to u s foreign policy a Diplomatic History
2012Co-Authors: Robert J. Mcmahon, Thomas W. ZeilerAbstract:At no time in American History has an understanding of the role and the art of diplomacy in international relations been more essential than it is today. Both the History of United States Diplomatic relations and the current United States foreign policy in the 21st century are major topics of study and interest in America and around the world. Spanning the entire History of American diplomacy - from the first Continental Congress, to the war on terrorism, to the foreign policy goals of the 21st century - Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy traces not only the growth and development of Diplomatic policies and traditions, but also the shifts in public opinion that shape Diplomatic trends. This comprehensive, two-volume reference shows how the United States gained 'the strength of a giant' and also analyzes key world events that have determined the United States' changing relations with other nations. A three-part structure makes the key concepts and issues accessible to researchers: Part One features 40 topical and historical chapters, in which expert writers cover the Diplomatic initiatives of the United States from colonial times through the present day. Part Two is an A to Z handbook of Diplomatic terms and concepts, people, events, and issues in American foreign policy. Part Three features a collection of annotated primary source documents that support the work. This unique reference highlights the changes in U.S. Diplomatic policy as government administrations and world events influenced national decisions. Topics include imperialism, economic diplomacy, environmental diplomacy, foreign aid, wartime negotiations, presidential influence, NATO and its role in the twenty-first century, and the response to terrorism. Additional featured topics include the influence of the American two-party system, the impact of U.S. elections, and the role of the United States in international organizations. Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy is the first comprehensive reference work in this field that is both historical and thematic. This work will be of immense value for researchers, students, and others studying foreign policy, international relations, and U.S History.
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The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field
Journal of American History, 2009Co-Authors: Thomas W. ZeilerAbstract:An era of innovation among historians of American foreign relations is upon us. Gone are the days when, in 1980, Charles S. Maier could claim that social and cultural History had marginalized the state, implicitly relegating the "languishing" field of Diplomatic History to the status of "stepchild" to serious historical scholarship.' Grievances against departments that supposedly refuse to hire Diplomatic historians or against journals that seemingly shut us out are increasingly rare. The relationship of the field to the profession is no longer characterized by the tired, anecdotal saw of exclusion. Instead, historians of U.S. foreign relations are, in many ways, an advance guard driving the bandwagon of international ization, riding along with those who study mentalites and culture. And that relationship has been reciprocal: while the recent story of U.S. Diplomatic History rests on its merger with the majority, the mainstream has also reached out to us. This essay looks at how, over the past two decades, the study of U.S. foreign relations has stood at the intersection of the domestic and international, of theory and empiricism, of security/politics and the cultural turn. Diplomatic History is a clearinghouse of sorts for work on America in the world, and I seek to illustrate how a sample of Diplomatic historians approach their field in ways both new and consistent with trends in the profession at large.^ This article will consider three (not mutually exclusive) areas in which reform has enlivened the field: traditional realism's engagement with ideology {mentalites), the embrace of international History, and the study of culture and identity. These reforms have redefined the field in ways that confirm the movement of Diplomatic History into the mainstream of the historical profession's interests, and vice versa.