Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University
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Contents
News from the Director
Spring 2020 Colloquium …………………2
Spring 2020 Prizes……………………......3
Diplomatic History ……………………….3
Non-Resident Fellow, 2020-2021………...4
Funding the Immerman Fund……………..4
Thanks to the Davis Fellow ………………4
News from the Community …………………... 5
Note from the Davis Fellow ………………….. 9
Spring 2020 Interviews
Timothy Sayle ……………………….…..10
Sarah Snyder ………………………….…13
Book Reviews
Lincoln, Seward, and US
Foreign Relations in the Civil War
Review by Alexandre F. Caillot …15
How to Hide an Empire: A History
of the Greater United States
Review by Graydon Dennison …..17
Enduring Alliance: A History of
NATO and the Postwar Global
Order
Review by Stanley Schwartz ……19
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International Relations, Foreign Policy, NATO, Empire, and Diplomatic History
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
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Spies, poisonings, Russian election meddling, disinformation, FBI scandals, international terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, mass surveillance, cyber espionage, and data harvesting: the use and abuse of intelligence is one of the most contested and scrutinized subjects in contemporary news and current affairs. It generates almost daily news headlines across the globe. For anyone on social media, it often seems as if barely an hour passes without another spy scandal breaking. Such scandals are the subjects of many heated dinner-party conversations on university campuses.
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International Relations, Intelligence, History, and Diplomatic History
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
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I n its early years the United States, a nation attempting to distinguish itself from the monarchal norms of Europe, sought to arrange its own rules of foreign engagement. What was the diplomacy of a republic supposed to look like? Who would conduct the activities of foreign affairs? Thanks to the formidable digital project Founders Online a cooperative effort from the National Archives and the University of Virginia Press, one can begin to trace the development of American diplomacy through its first thirty fragile years, 1783–1812.
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International Relations, Foreign Policy, History, and Diplomatic History