🇺🇸Is the U.S. still a "shining city on a hill," or just the "big kid on the block"? Virden weighs in on the tarnished legacy of American leadership. 🇺🇦
Read HERE: americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2026/02/unde...
#Ukraine #UndeclaredWar #ForeignPolicy #DiplomaticHistory
How did a battle over gas, sanctions, and sovereignty reshape the balance of power inside the Western alliance? Armin Grunbacher @unibirmingham.bsky.social discusses: research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/publicati... #History #DiplomaticHistory
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Black ambassadors show the gap between America’s story and its structure. Less than 5% of all postings — yet they carried the country’s name with a clarity America rarely gives them back. #DiplomaticHistory #BlackLeadership
Attn: grad students
The Journal of American-East Asia Relations invites graduate students to submit an essay for the Frank Gibney Award.
The winning essay will be published in the journal in 2026. Deadline is January 6.
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#skystorians #diplomatichistory #JAEAR
Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67
Kalathmika Natarajan
newbooksnetwork.com/coolie-migra... discusses the Tamil origins and meaning of the term - #pacificworld #indianoceanworld #immigrationhistory #indianhistory #postcolonialism #diplomatichistory
No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One
Andrew Lambert
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The vote: 14-0. Every Security Council member votes YES. The US abstains, allowing the resolution to pass. A rare moment of near-unanimity. #DiplomaticHistory
India's past involvement: 🇮🇳 Lobbied for a single federal state in 1947, contributed to UN peacekeeping forces, & recognized Palestine early (1988)! ☮️ #UNPeacekeeping #DiplomaticHistory
As a scholar of early modern European diplomacy and peace history Dorothée learned a lot about early 20th century East Asia. Moreover, it was interesting to get more insights into research about Japan and Korea. At the same time the different perspectives from scholars of International Relations […]
@dorotheegoetze 's own contribution was somewhat of a final comment to bring in her own expertise. She emphasised the impact of changing regional and global frameworks for politics in East Asia and the peace negotiations. Dorothée also pointed out new research perspectives: Which concepts of […]
The programme of this two-day workshop was divided into three thematic blocks which included historical as well as IR perspectives:
Participants discussed the question of Korean independence in the context of the Portsmouth conference. The second panel was dedicated to modern East Asia and […]
The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed on 5 September 1905 and concluded the Russo-Japanese War. The treaty was mediated by US-president Theodore Roosevelt. It acknowledged Japan’s hegemony over Korea and pathed the way for the Japanese annexation of Korea five years later.
Research on this peace […]
In September our co-editor @dorotheegoetze had quite an exciting (and somewhat challenging) task to fulfil:
She was invited to give a paper on diplomacy and peripheral states at a workshop on Korea and the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905. This was an exciting experience but also challenging for […]
We are back from our summer break and look forward to talking about early modern diplomacy again!
We still have some handbook chapters to introduce – this seems to be somewhat of a never-ending story or rather the never-ending big pink book... (1/2)
#earlymodern #diplomacy #DiplomaticHistory […]
Trump says he’s “going to Russia” on Friday (actually, he’s going to Alaska)
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In general, patron-client relations were informal and could differ depending on the time and the region. Here studies need to broaden their focus and take regions into account that are less well researched, as our authors did. (8/9) […]
Exciting #diplomacy #CfP on spaces of diplomacy:
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-155903
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Finally, Osborne urges us to take up more of a macro perspective by comparing the different ceremonial protocols at different European courts.
To this demand we can wholeheartedly agree. In general, diplomatic history needs to integrate the micro into […]
We were excited to read a new H-Diplo feature on MAKING A MODERN POLITICAL ORDER. Three reviewers engage with James J. Sheehan’s analysis. #DiplomaticHistory #Nation
Find the #Roundtable review at https://bit.ly/3Tuy9YR
Graphic for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. Exploring the world's connectedness between 1750 and 1914. Journal cover featuring an antique map of the globe with two globes intertwining. Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies logo of two overlapping orange circles with transparent lines running through, and the Liverpool University Press logo featuring a red minimalist swoosh representing the Liver Bird with text below that reads 'Liverpool University Press, founded 1899'.
📑 Most read in Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
‘New Diplomatic History and the Study of the Global Nineteenth Century’, by Stefan Eklöf Amirell.
This article is currently free to read, online at: bit.ly/New-Diplomatic-History
#diplomatichistory #freetoread
New on the blog!
Bart Mooibroek explores the diplomatic career of Dorothea Lieven, and how female diplomats have been studied more broadly in history #womenshistory #diplomatichistory
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Trump fires historians charged with writing nonpartisan accounts of US foreign policy. The body has existed since 1861. thehill.com/homenews/adm... #ushistory #trumphistory #diplomatichistory
#16thC #16thcentury #CFP extended! We are still looking for a panelist/roundtable discussants #Renaissance #medieval #earlymodern #skystorian for the 16th C Conference in Portland in Oct/Nov - #womenshistory and #diplomatichistory #queens #Europeanhistory #worldhistory #academicsky
We are proud to distribute books from ibidem Press, Jagiellonian University Press, and transcript publishing. Stop by booth 409 at #OAH25 or visit us online to browse their books and more. buff.ly/2KdzWow #AmericanHistory #USForeignRelations #DiplomaticHistory #HistoryBooks #USHistory
Call for Papers: History panel on women, strategy, and diplomatic practice in the early modern world for the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 Conference in Portland.
Call for Papers: History roundtable on methodological approaches to locating diplomatic women in the archive and examining documents to identify and examine their agency, contributions, and challenges. For the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 conference in Portland.
Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skystorians of women's #diplomatichistory! The CFP for women + diplo strategy panel AND roundtable on approaches to women and EM diplomacy at #16thc #16thCentury Society in Portland! Royals, merchants, ambass's wives (+ sisters, nieces, daughters), servants, nuns
Any fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skytorians of women's #diplomatichistory interested in participating in a panel on diplo strategy or a roundtable on methodologies and approaches to women and EM diplomacy in archives and documents at #16thCentury Society in Portland? Details below
Where are my diplomatic history peeps?!
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#NaziSovietPact
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🏆 Our DIPLOWIDE joint project with the University of Warsaw has been awarded funding in the 2nd #EUIWidening call for collaborative research projects!
Learn more about this project on archives and diplomatic practices in early #18thcentury Eastern Europe 👉 loom.ly/NYo3sBY
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Slowly my motivation is dying down before Christmas… I have however finished editing 4 out of 6 chapters for the thesis! Exited for my final seminar in April 🥳 #diplomatichistory #earlymodern