John Dumbrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 977060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Dumbrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Dumbrell |
| SIGNATURE | DUMBRELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Speaking of spooks
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence, by Amy B. Zegart. Princeton University Press. 424 pp. £25 Amy Zegart offers us a tour d'horizon of the state of American intelligence gathering and analysis. Despite its subtitle, Spies, Lies, and Algorithms is far less rooted in history than in present and future analysis. According to Zegart, ‘intelligence has gone from a world of information scarcity to information o…
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
Derek Leebaert has produced a lively, scholarly, and generally persuasive reinterpretation of Anglo-American international history after 1945. He does not see an abrupt and inevitable transfer of global sway from London to Washington occurring during the period. Rather, he suggests that British elites remained committed to their policies of global reach. Their American equivalents were jittery and uncertain about assuming new responsibilities. Le…
America in the 1990s: Searching for purpose
This chapter examines how the external environment of US foreign policy and internal pressures on policy makers both shifted radically in the 1990s. Internationally, the ‘long 1990s’ were characterized by intense democratic possibility. Yet they were also years of atavistic negativity and irrationality, as seen in Rwanda and Bosnia. Two questions arise: First, how should the United States respond to a world which was apparently both rapidly integ…
Huw Dylan. Defence Intelligence and the Cold War: Britain’s Joint Intelligence Bureau, 1945–1964
Precursor to the Defence Intelligence Staff, the Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB) was a major defense intelligence agency in early Cold War London. It was located in the Ministry of Defence and typically employed nearly two hundred analysts, most engaged in assessments of an interservice orientation. It was primarily the bureaucratic creation of Kenneth Strong, a senior British defense intelligence figure who had worked on the staff of General Dwi…
Nixon's Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War
In this original and meticulously researched study, William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball unravel the nuclear diplomacy—in effect, a species of nuclear “signaling” to Moscow—associated with White House efforts to extricate the United States from the Vietnam War in the first year of the Richard M. Nixon presidency. In outline terms, Nixon, abetted by Henry Kissinger, drew on earlier Cold War “brinksmanship” experiences in an attempt to pressure Mosc…
Christian Emery. US Foreign Policy and the Iranian Revolution: The Cold War Dynamics of Engagement and Strategic Alliance
Christian Emery here offers a detailed, analytical study of the Jimmy Carter administration's policy toward Iran, focusing particularly on the period following the exit from Tehran of the Shah in January 1979. He sees Carter's pre-1979 policy toward Tehran as a muddle, vitiated by “weak intelligence gathering, pressures to adhere to prevailing views, and a mindset that the Shah would be able to rule indefinitely” (p. 42). The failure to develop s…
‘Rethinking the Vietnam War’ by John Dumbrell
Rethinking the Vietnam War
Western popular memory of the Vietnam War is dominated by persistent myths and stereotypes. Some of the more familiar stereotypes include the morale-shattered ‘grunt’ or American infantryman, turning eventually into the traumatized veteran; the female Viet Cong fighter with a pistol at her hip; and the far-sighted and relentlessly determined North Vietnamese Politburo. Among the more prominent myths of the conflict are that of an American public …
First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia – By David N. Gibbs
Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century
Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century." The International History Review, 33(4), pp. 750–751
President Bill Clinton and US transatlantic foreign policy
Piercing the bamboo curtain: Tentative bridge-building to China during the Johnson years
American Power: Crisis or Renewal
Perceptions of American international decline are not new. This article considers the current debate over US decline in historical context, noting that current forecasts of decline are less apocalyptic than those of the later Cold War period. The foreign policy legacy of George W. Bush is assessed. Perceptions of domestic US political paralysis are discussed, along with the need for the Obama administration to move clearly in the direction of glo…
The United States, Britain and the Transatlantic Crisis: Rising to the Gaullist Challenge, 1963–68
The US–UK Special Relationship: Taking the 21st-Century Temperature
Although highly contested, the concept of the US–UK ‘special relationship’ does have real existence, primarily in the fields of defence and intelligence co-operation. The end of the premiership of Tony Blair saw the emergence of a significant public debate in the United Kingdom about the future appropriate trajectory for the relationship. This article assesses the state of the special relationship under Prime Minister Gordon Brown, placing it in …
Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration
Scott Kaufman has written a first-rate scholarly study of the foreign policy of President Jimmy Carter. This is a work of original synthesis and reinterpretation, rather than of revelatory archival discovery. Kaufman draws on a wide range of secondary academic literature, as well as on conscientious research in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and elsewhere. The story he tells—of human rights commitments being compromised, of hopes for an en…
President Clinton's Secretaries of State: Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright
Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts
Introduction 1. The Final Chapter? The Iraq War and the End of History 2. The Vietnam Laugh Track 3. Unraveling the Domestic Foreign Policy Consensus: Presidential Rhetoric, American Public Opinion, and the Wars in Vietnam and Iraq 4. Iraq and Vietnam: Military Lessons and Legacies 5. 'A National Symphony of Theft, Corruption and Bribery': Anatomy of State Building from Iraq to Vietnam 6. Vietnam, Victory Culture and Iraq: Struggling with Lessons…
Working with Allies: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the War on Terror
This article considers the special case of the United States’ relationship with Great Britain—America’s closest ally—in the context of the post‐9/11 debate over unilateralism and multilateralism. It explains the development of unilateral preferences in the post‐Cold War order and, latterly, in the foreign policies of the George W. Bush Administration. The Bush Administration’s outlook is seen as much more complex than many commentators assume, no…
Introduction: Politics and Policy in America’s “War” on Terror
The American Presence in Ulster: A Diplomatic History, 1796-1996
Journal Article The American Presence in Ulster: A Diplomatic History, 1796–1996 Get access The American Presence in Ulster: A Diplomatic History, 1796–1996. By Carroll Francis M.. (Washington: Catholic University of America, 2005. xii, 281 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn0-8132-1420-3.) John Dumbrell John Dumbrell University of LeicesterLeicester, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
A Special Relationship: Anglo American Relations from the Cold War to Iraq
Winston Churchill and American foreign relations: John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
American Isolationism: A response to david hastings dunn
in an excellent and thoughtful piece in the april 2005 issue of review of international studies , david dunn draws our attention to seven myths about american isolationism. his points are well made and generally unexceptionable. however, since david dunn takes an article i wrote in 1999 as the starting point for several of his criticisms, i thought i would take the opportunity to offer a response. i have three main points to make
The US–UK 'Special Relationship' in a world twice transformed
The international politics of recent years have seen a resurgence and refashioning of the US-UK 'Special Relationship'. Widely seen as likely to expire with the end of the Cold War, the relationship, defined mainly in military terms, revived following the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States. The article considers various possible explanations for the longevity of US-UK 'special relations'. Such explanations include simple inertia and the sub…
The US–UK Special Relationship: Taking the 21st-Century Temperature
Although highly contested, the concept of the US–UK ‘special relationship’ does have real existence, primarily in the fields of defence and intelligence co-operation. The end of the premiership of Tony Blair saw the emergence of a significant public debate in the United Kingdom about the future appropriate trajectory for the relationship. This article assesses the state of the special relationship under Prime Minister Gordon Brown, placing it in …
Was There a Clinton Doctrine? President Clinton's Foreign Policy Reconsidered
This article discusses the concept of 'doctrine' within American foreign policy and seeks to locate a possible Clinton Doctrine. It argues, against some interpretations of the Clinton presidency, that Clinton's foreign policy did have a degree of coherence necessary to sustain a 'doctrine'. The broad development of Clinton's foreign policy between 1993 and 2001 is summarized and assessed. Five possible Clinton doctrines are investigated. The arti…
American Power: Crisis or Renewal
Perceptions of American international decline are not new. This article considers the current debate over US decline in historical context, noting that current forecasts of decline are less apocalyptic than those of the later Cold War period. The foreign policy legacy of George W. Bush is assessed. Perceptions of domestic US political paralysis are discussed, along with the need for the Obama administration to move clearly in the direction of glo…
The US–UK 'Special Relationship' in a world twice transformed
The international politics of recent years have seen a resurgence and refashioning of the US-UK 'Special Relationship'. Widely seen as likely to expire with the end of the Cold War, the relationship, defined mainly in military terms, revived following the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States. The article considers various possible explanations for the longevity of US-UK 'special relations'. Such explanations include simple inertia and the sub…
Unilateralism and ‘America First’? President George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy
Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration
Scott Kaufman has written a first-rate scholarly study of the foreign policy of President Jimmy Carter. This is a work of original synthesis and reinterpretation, rather than of revelatory archival discovery. Kaufman draws on a wide range of secondary academic literature, as well as on conscientious research in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and elsewhere. The story he tells—of human rights commitments being compromised, of hopes for an en…
Working with Allies: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the War on Terror
This article considers the special case of the United States’ relationship with Great Britain—America’s closest ally—in the context of the post‐9/11 debate over unilateralism and multilateralism. It explains the development of unilateral preferences in the post‐Cold War order and, latterly, in the foreign policies of the George W. Bush Administration. The Bush Administration’s outlook is seen as much more complex than many commentators assume, no…
Presidential Pocket—Veto Power: A Constitutional Anachronism
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
Derek Leebaert has produced a lively, scholarly, and generally persuasive reinterpretation of Anglo-American international history after 1945. He does not see an abrupt and inevitable transfer of global sway from London to Washington occurring during the period. Rather, he suggests that British elites remained committed to their policies of global reach. Their American equivalents were jittery and uncertain about assuming new responsibilities. Le…
American Isolationism: A response to david hastings dunn
in an excellent and thoughtful piece in the april 2005 issue of review of international studies , david dunn draws our attention to seven myths about american isolationism. his points are well made and generally unexceptionable. however, since david dunn takes an article i wrote in 1999 as the starting point for several of his criticisms, i thought i would take the opportunity to offer a response. i have three main points to make
Commander in Chief
These three films focus on decisions by three presidents to employ military force. The film on Richard Nixon, naturally, is entirely concerned with the Vietnam War, particularly with the bombing and invasion of Cambodia and the 1972 Linebacker bombing of North Vietnam. The film on George Bush concentrates on the Gulf War, with a brief review of the Panamanian invasion of 1989. The third film in the series deals with President Bill Clinton's polic…
Affirmative Action during the Reagan Presidency
Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century
Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century." The International History Review, 33(4), pp. 750–751
President Clinton's Secretaries of State: Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright
Winston Churchill and American foreign relations: John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter
Journal Article The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter. Ed. by Herbert D. Rosenbaum and Alexej Ugrinsky. Westport and Jimmy Carter: Foreign Policy and Post-Presidential Years. Ed. by Herbert D. Rosenbaum and Alexej Ugrinsky. Westport Get access John Dumbrell John Dumbrell Keele University, Keele, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 19…
Air Road to the Isles
Standard Encyclopedia of the World's Rivers and Lakes
Standard Encyclopedia of the World's Rivers and Lakes
Air Road to the Isles
Northern Travel
From Island to Island
Forests of Australia
Photographer of the World: A Biography of Herbert Ponting
A Guide to Australia
Map Studies with Related Field Excursions
Strengthening the Legislative Power of the Purse: The Origins of the 1974 Budgetary Reforms in the U.S. Congress
Presidential Pocket—Veto Power: A Constitutional Anachronism
Affirmative Action during the Reagan Presidency
The Carter Presidency: A Re-evaluation
Journal Article The Carter Presidency: A Re-evaluation. By John Dumbrell. (New York: Manchester University Press, 1993. x, 223 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-7190-3617-8.) Get access Burton I. Kaufman Burton I. Kaufman Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1384–1385, https://doi.org…
The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter
Journal Article The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter. Ed. by Herbert D. Rosenbaum and Alexej Ugrinsky. Westport and Jimmy Carter: Foreign Policy and Post-Presidential Years. Ed. by Herbert D. Rosenbaum and Alexej Ugrinsky. Westport Get access John Dumbrell John Dumbrell Keele University, Keele, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 19…
Economic Policy in the Carter Administration
Journal Article Economic Policy in the Carter Administration. By Anthony S. Campagna. Westport: Greenwood, 1995. xvi, 216 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-29568-9. and Carter and Arms Sales: Implementing the Carter Administration's Arms Transfer Restraint Policy. By Joanna Spear. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. xiv, 246 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-312-12681-6 Get access John Dumbrell John Dumbrell Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Search for other works…
American Foreign Policy: Carter to Clinton
This book examines the history of US foreign policy since the Vietnam War. It focuses on four themes: the legacy of Vietnam; the ending and aftermath of the Cold War; the debate over American international decline; and the frequently undemocratic conduct of US foreign policy. The book considers alternative explanations for the Cold War's end. It evaluates the foreign policy leadership of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton and assesses pr…
The Carter Presidency: Policy Choices in the Post-New Deal Era
Days: The Iran Hostage Crisis
Was There a Clinton Doctrine? President Clinton's Foreign Policy Reconsidered
This article discusses the concept of 'doctrine' within American foreign policy and seeks to locate a possible Clinton Doctrine. It argues, against some interpretations of the Clinton presidency, that Clinton's foreign policy did have a degree of coherence necessary to sustain a 'doctrine'. The broad development of Clinton's foreign policy between 1993 and 2001 is summarized and assessed. Five possible Clinton doctrines are investigated. The arti…
Unilateralism and ‘America First’? President George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy
Commander in Chief
These three films focus on decisions by three presidents to employ military force. The film on Richard Nixon, naturally, is entirely concerned with the Vietnam War, particularly with the bombing and invasion of Cambodia and the 1972 Linebacker bombing of North Vietnam. The film on George Bush concentrates on the Gulf War, with a brief review of the Panamanian invasion of 1989. The third film in the series deals with President Bill Clinton's polic…
British Involvement in Vietnam Peace Initiatives, 1966-1967: "Marigolds, Sunflowers, and "Kosygin Week
This article is the first detailed examination of a famous British peace initiative that proved to be a major incident in the history of Anglo-American relations in the 1960s and the Vietnam War peace negotiations. The article traces the evolution of the Harold Wilson-Andrei Kosygin peace initiative of February 1967 and situates it within a plethora of secret, third-party involvement in trying to find an end to the war. It also places the initiat…
The US–UK 'Special Relationship' in a world twice transformed
The international politics of recent years have seen a resurgence and refashioning of the US-UK 'Special Relationship'. Widely seen as likely to expire with the end of the Cold War, the relationship, defined mainly in military terms, revived following the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States. The article considers various possible explanations for the longevity of US-UK 'special relations'. Such explanations include simple inertia and the sub…
Winston Churchill and American foreign relations: John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
American Isolationism: A response to david hastings dunn
in an excellent and thoughtful piece in the april 2005 issue of review of international studies , david dunn draws our attention to seven myths about american isolationism. his points are well made and generally unexceptionable. however, since david dunn takes an article i wrote in 1999 as the starting point for several of his criticisms, i thought i would take the opportunity to offer a response. i have three main points to make
Working with Allies: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the War on Terror
This article considers the special case of the United States’ relationship with Great Britain—America’s closest ally—in the context of the post‐9/11 debate over unilateralism and multilateralism. It explains the development of unilateral preferences in the post‐Cold War order and, latterly, in the foreign policies of the George W. Bush Administration. The Bush Administration’s outlook is seen as much more complex than many commentators assume, no…
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