PASSPORT THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS REVIEW VOLUME 48, NO. 2 SEPTEMBER 2017 IN THIS ISSUE The Rise of the Post-Cold War Order The Historiography of Religion and U.S. Foreign Relations Americans, Arabs, and the 1970s AND MORE... Passport THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS REVIEW Editor Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young University Assistant Editor Zeb Larson, The Ohio State University Production Editor Julie Rojewski, Michigan State University Editorial Advisory Board Sandra Scanlon, University College Dublin (2015-2017) Kenneth Osgood, Colorado School of Mines (2016-2018) Ryan Irwin, University at Albany, SUNY (2017-2019) Emeritus Editors Mitchell Lerner, The Ohio State University (2003-2012) William J. Brinker, Tennessee Technological University (1980-2003) Nolan Fowler, Tennessee Technological University (1973-1980) Gerald E. 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Kennedy Center for International Studies, and Middle Tennessee State University. © 2017 SHAFR Page 2 Passport September 2017 Passport THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS REVIEW Volume 48, Number 2, September 2017 In This Issue 4 Contributors 6 From the Chancery: Times Like These Andrew L. Johns 7 2017 SHAFR Election Information 12 A Roundtable on Salim Yaqub, Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s Victor McFarland, Adam Howard, Melani McAlister, Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Osamah Khalil, and Salim Yaqub 25 An Outpouring of Spirit: A Historiography of Recent Works on Religion and U.S. Foreign Relations Lauren F. Turek 32 A Roundtable on Hal Brands, Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Relations and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order Luke A. Nichter, Michaela Hoenicke-Moore, Michael Donoghue, Andrew C. McKevitt, and Hal Brands 44 2017 SHAFR Prize Winners 47 Book Reviews Ryan Irwin on Jaime Miller, An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) Jason Zeledon on Larrie Farreiro, Brothers at Arms: American Indpendence and the Men of France & Spain Who Saved It (New York: Knopf, 2016) Simon Miles on Joseph M. Siracusa and Aiden Warren, Presidential Doctrines: U.S. National Security from George Washington to Barack Obama (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) Megan Threlkeld on Robert E. Hannigan, The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-1924 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) Nicole M. Phelps on Volker Prott, The Politics of Self-Determination: Remaking Territories and National Identities in Europe, 1917-1923 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) Silke Zoller on Richard Moss, Nixon’s Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Détente (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2017) Amanda Boczar on Pat Proctor, Containment and Credibility: The Ideology and Deception that Plunged America into the Vietnam War (New York: Carrel Books, 2016) Matt Loayza on Matthew Masur, ed., Understanding and Teaching the Cold War (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017) 56 Minutes of the June 2017 SHAFR Council Meeting 61 The Diplomatic Pouch 68 Dispatches 70 The Last Word: Fifty Years of SHAFR Memories Mark A. Stoler Passport September 2017 Page 3 Contributors Passport 48/2 (September 2017) Amanda Boczar is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the United States Military Academy, West Point. She is the author and editor of the e-book series, The West Point Guide to Gender & Warfare, which is currently under production by Rowan Technologies. Her first book is under contract with Cornell University Press and examines the intersections of foreign relations with American soldiers’ relationships with South Vietnamese civilian women from 1955-1975. She will join the University of South Florida’s Honors College as a Lecturer in fall 2017. Hal Brands is Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis. In 2015-2016, he served as the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Strategic Planning. Michael Donoghue is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He earned his Ph.D. in History at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. His book, Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone, was published by Duke University Press in 2014. He has also co-authored–along with Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, and Robert Brigham–American Foreign Relations: A History, Volumes I and II (8th ed, 2014). He is currently working on a monograph on U.S. military-Cuban relations from 1939 to 1964. Michaela Hoenicke-Moore is Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Know Your Enemy: The American Debate on Nazism, 1933-1945 (2010), which received SHAFR’s Myrna F. Bernath Book Award in 2010. She is currently working on a project on nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Adam Howard is the General Editor of the Foreign Relations of the United States series at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Historian. He is also Adjunct Professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University. Ryan Irwin is Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany, SUNY. His book, Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order (2012), explored the fight against apartheid after African decolonization. He is currently writing a book about liberal internationalism. Andrew L. Johns is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University and the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies. He is the author of Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War (2010), and editor of four books including A Companion to Ronald Reagan (2015). He is the editor of Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review and general editor of the Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace book series published by the University Press of Kentucky. He was elected as President- elect of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association in 2017, and will serve as President of the PCB-AHA in 2018-2019. Osamah Khalil is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State (2016). Matt Loayza is Professor of History and Department Chair at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He teaches courses on the history of U.S. foreign relations, the Cold War, and various topics in modern U.S. history. He has published articles on inter-American relations during the Eisenhower presidency in Diplomacy and Statecraft and Diplomatic History. His current research focuses on cultural exchange programs during the 1950s. Melani McAlister is Associate Professor of American Studies and International Affairs at The George Washington University. She is the author of Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East (2001), and co- editor, with R. Marie Griffith, of Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States (2008). She has recently completed Our God in the World: The Global Visions of American Evangelicals, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2018. She is also co-editor of volume 4 of the forthcoming Cambridge University History of America and the World. She is beginning work on a book tentatively titled, “Let Biafra Live!”: Religion, Global Media, and Transnational Humanitarianism during Nigeria’s Civil War, 1967-1970. Victor McFarland is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Missouri. His research interests center on oil and the energy industry, along with related topics including the environment, political economy, and U.S. relations with the Middle East. He is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the oil crisis of the 1970s. Page 4 Passport September 2017 Andrew C. McKevitt is Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University, where he has taught since 2012. After receiving his Ph.D. from Temple University in 2009, he taught at Philadelphia University and was a Hollybush Fellow in Cold War History at Rowan University.