Passport September 2023


 In This Issue:

4 Contributors

7 SHAFR Election Information

12 Thoughts from SHAFR President Mary Ann Heiss

13 Response to A Roundtable on Jayita Sarkar, Ploughshares and Swords Jayita Sarkar

15 A Roundtable on Marc Selverstone, The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment in Vietnam
Chester Pach, Jessica M. Chapman, Tizoc Chavez, Jessica Elkind, Philip E. Catton, and Marc Selverstone

26 Requiem for a Field: The Strange Journey of U.S. Diplomatic History Ryan M. Irwin

40 A Roundtable on Susan Colbourn, Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons that Nearly Destroyed NATO
Jayita Sarkar, Heather Marie Stur, Elizabeth C. Charles, William Hitchcock, Aaron Bateman, Susan Colbourn

52 Seven Questions on...the Nexus of Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics
Daniel Bessner, Michael Brenes, Amanda C. Demmer, Aaron Donaghy, and Andrew Johnstone

59 A Roundtable on William Inboden, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World
Evan D. McCormick, Aaron Donaghy, Andrew Hunt, Gail E. S. Yoshitani, John Sbardellati, and William Inboden

72 Update on Records Access Issues Mary Ann Heiss

74 Shock and Awe Revisited: Legacies of the Iraq War 20 Years Later 
Zaynab Quadri, Zainab Saleh, Catherine Lutz, Osamah Khalil, Carly A. Krakow, and Moustafa Bayoumi

86 SHAFR Spotlights

91 SHAFR Awards

96 Minutes of June 2023 Council Meeting

100 Diplomatic Pouch

103 In Memoriam: Gaddis Smith

106 The Last Word: Speaking with our Sources—The Possibilities and Pitfalls of AI Language Models in Historical Research
Jacob Forward and Xiaochen Zhu

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