• Read the Spring 2022 Edition of Strategic Visions!

Contents:

​Featured Articles

• Dr. Alan McPherson (Temple University): "News from the Director"
• "News from the CENFAD Community" 
• Casey VanSise (Temple University): "Note from the Davis Fellow" 

Interview Series

• "Interview with Dr. Robert 'Bob' Vitalis" 
• "Interview with Dr. Elizabeth R. Varon"
• "Interview with Dr. Matthew Specter"
• "Interview with Dr. Miguel La Serna"
• "Interview with Dr. Paul Adler"

Short Essay

• "The Stable Republic of Brazil," by Dr. Philip Evanson (Associate Professor Emeritus of History, Temple University, 1967-2005)​

Book Reviews

• Book Review - Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945-1980, reviewed by Ariel Natalo-Lifton
• Book Review - American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea, reviewed by Graydon Dennison

Editorial Staff

• Editor-in-Chief: Casey VanSise, Graduate Student, 2021-2022 Thomas J. Davis Fellow
• CENFAD Director: Dr. Alan McPherson

• Read the Fall 2021 Edition of Strategic Visions!

Contents:

​Featured Articles

• Dr. Alan McPherson (Temple University): "News from the Director" 
• Casey VanSise (Temple University): "Note from the Davis Fellow

Interview Series

• "Q&A with Ethan Cohen, Inaugural Immerman Awardee"
• "Interview with Eric J. Perinovic"
• "Interview with Dr. David B. Zierler"
• "Interview with Dr. Silke Zoller"
• "Interview with Dr. Benjamin Talton"

Book Reviews

• Alexandra Southgate, Book Review - Making the Forever War: Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism
• Joseph Edward Johnson, Book Review - The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era

Editorial Staff

• Editor-in-Chief: Casey VanSise, Graduate Student: 2021-2022 Thomas J. Davis Fellow
• CENFAD Director: Dr. Alan McPherson

• Read the Spring 2021 Edition of Strategic Visions!

Contents:

​Featured Articles:

• Dr. Alan McPherson (Temple University): "News from the Director" 
• Joshua Stern (Temple University): "Note from the Davis Fellow"
• "News from the CENFAD Community"

Book Reviews:

• Paul M. Farber, Book Review: A Wall of Our Own - An American History of the Berlin Wall, reviewed by Brandon Kinney
• Peter Svik, Book Review: Civil Aviation and the Globalization of the Cold War, reviewed by Michael Fischer
• Jessica M. Kim, Book Review: Imperial Metropolis - Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865-1941, reviewed by Amanda Summers
• Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, Book Review: Educating the Empire - American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines, reviewed by Madison Ingram
• Ed Morales, Book Review: Fantasy Island - Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico, reviewed by Graydon Dennison
• Tanya Harmer, Book Review: Beatriz Allende - A Revolutionary Life in Latin America, reviewed by Michael Onufrak

Editorial Staff

• Editor-in-Chief: Joshua Stern, Graduate Student: 2020-2021 Thomas J. Davis Fellow
• CENFAD Director: Dr. Alan McPherson

• Read the Fall 2020 Edition of Strategic Visions!

Contents:

Featured Articles:

• Dr. Alan McPherson (Temple University): “News from the Director”
• Joshua Stern (Temple University): “Note from the Davis Fellow”
• Temple Community Interviews

Book Reviews:

• Graydon Dennison (Temple University), Book Review - Kissinger and Latin America: Intervention, Human Rights, and Diplomacy.
• Ryan Langton (Temple University), Book Review - America’s Middlemen: Power at the Edge of Empire.
• Grace Anne Parker (Temple University), Book Review - Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa.
• Casey VanSise (Temple University), Book Review - Latin America and the Global Cold War.

Editorial Staff

• Editor-in-Chief: Joshua Stern, Graduate Student: 2020-2021 Thomas J. Davis Fellow
• CENFAD Director: Dr. Alan McPherson

• Read the Spring 2020 Edition of Strategic Visions!

Contents:

Featured Articles:

• Dr. Alan McPherson (Temple University): “News from the Director”
• Joshua Stern (Temple University): “Note from the Davis Fellow”
• News from the Community

Book Reviews:

• Joseph A. Fry, Book Review: Lincoln, Seward, and US Foreign Relations in the Civil War, reviewed by Alexandre F. Caillot.
• Daniel Immerwahr, Book Review: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, reviewed by Graydon Dennison.
• Timothy Sayle, Book Review: Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order, reviewed by Stanley Schwartz.

Editorial Staff

• Editor-in-Chief: Joshua Stern, Graduate Student: 2020-2021 Thomas J. Davis Fellow
• CENFAD Director: Dr. Alan McPherson

• Read the full Fall 2019 Edition of Strategic Visions!

Contents:

• Read the full Fall 2019 Edition of Strategic Visions!

Contents:

Featured Articles:

• Dr. Alan McPherson (Temple University): “News from the Director”
• Brandon Kinney (Temple University): “Note from the Davis Fellow”
• Celebrating Campaigns & Commanders: 66 Titles in 20 Years!
• One Must Walk the Ground”: Experiencing the Staff Ride

Book Reviews:

• Stanley Schwartz (Temple University), Review of Nancy Mitchell. Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016.
• Michael Fischer (Temple University), Review of Kara Dixon Vuic. The Girl Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Line. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019.
• Abby Whitaker (Temple University), Review of Kenneth M. Pollack. Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• James Kopaczewski (Temple University), Review of Nancy Mitchell. Review of Nancy Mitchell. Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016.

Author Interviews

• Interview with Nan Enstad, Conducted by Brandon Kinney
• Interview with Thomas Schwartz, Conducted by Brandon Kinney

Editorial Staff

• Editor-in-Chief: Brandon Kinney, Graduate Student, 2018-19 Thomas J. Davis Fellow
• CENFAD Director: Dr. Alan McPherson

Read the Spring 2019 Edition of Strategic Visions!

• News from the Director
• Note from the Davis Fellow

• Danielle K. Scherer (Temple University), Review of Bush, Sarah Sunn. The Taming of Democracy Assistance: Why Democracy Promotion Does Not Confront Dictators. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• Brian McNamara (Temple University), Review of Gleijeses, Piero. Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
• Manna Duah (Temple University), Review of Kimball, Warren. The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
• Stephen Bentel (Temple University), Review of Matera, Marc. Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.
• Britnee Smith (Temple University), Review of Sargent, Daniel J. A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

• James Cook-Thajudeen (Temple University), Review of Todd Cleveland, Stones of Contention: A History of Africa's Diamonds. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014.
• Seth S. Tannenbaum (Temple University), Review of Maria Hoehn and Martin Klimke, A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.
• Larry Kessler (Temple University), Review of Ari Kelman, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
• Jean-Pierre Beugoms (Temple University), Review of Paul Kennedy, Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War. New York: Random House, 2013.
• Britnee Smith (Temple University), Review of Barbara Keys, Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.

• Alexandre F. Caillot (Temple University), Review of Linn, Brian McAllister. Elvis' Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.
• Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas (Temple University), Review of Thompson, Michael G. For God and Globe: Christian Internationalism in the United States Between the Great War and the Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.
• Keith Riley (Temple University), Review of Hobson, Emily K. Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016.

• Britnee Smith (Temple University), Review of Amy S. Greenberg, A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
• Minju Bae (Temple University), Review of Brenda Gayle Plummer, In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956-1974. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• Stephen Bentel (Temple University), Review of Michael A. Reynolds, Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Manna Duah (Temple University), Review of Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, The Nationalist Ferment: The Origin of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1792-1812. Translated by Lillian A. Parrott. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004.

• Mathias Fuelling (Temple University), Review of McNamara, Kevin. Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe. New York: Public Affairs, 2015.
• Brian McNamara (Temple University), Review of McKercher, Asa. Camelot and Canada: Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016
• Keith Riley (Temple University), Review of Parker, Jason. Hearts, Minds, Voices: U.S. Cold War Public Diplomacy and the Formation of the Third World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.