Joe Renouard
HNC Resident Professor of History and American Studies
About
Dr. Renouard specializes in American foreign policy, American history, human rights in international affairs, and transatlantic relations. His most recent books are The Transatlantic Community and China in the Age of Disruption: Partners, Competitors, Rivals (co-edited with Daniel S. Hamilton) and Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse. He has also contributed essays to The Los Angeles Times, The National Interest, The Diplomat, International Affairs Forum, American Diplomacy, International Policy Digest, The Washington Examiner, Z Network, The Journal of American Culture, The Journal of Transatlantic Studies, H-Diplo/ISSF, HNN, The Cicero Foundation, The Prague Post, Education about Asia, Weekly Alibi, Crosswinds, and several edited collections, including Donald E. Abelson and Stephen Brooks, eds., Transatlantic Relations: Challenge and Resilience; Matthias Schulz and Thomas A. Schwartz, eds., The Strained Alliance: Conflict and Cooperation in US-European Relations from Nixon to Carter; Cristina Crespo Palomares & David García Cantalapiedra, eds., North and South: The United States, the European Union, and the Developing World; William Michael Schmidli and Robert Pee, eds., The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion; Roberta Haar and Neil Wynn, eds., Transatlantic Conflict and Consensus: Culture, History & Politics; V. Scott Kaufman, ed., A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter; and Christos G. Frentzos and Antonio Thompson, eds., The Routledge Handbook of U.S. Diplomatic and Military History. His ideas have been featured in such media outlets as the South China Morning Post, Asahi Shimbun, and ABC Radio Australia. At present, he is co-editing a document collection of American and Chinese primary sources and co-translating Chinese author Ah Long’s novel, Nanjing (also known as 南京血祭, Nanjing Blood Sacrifice).
Dr. Renouard has lived and worked in the United States, China, the Czech Republic, and Spain, and he has taught at Emory University, Oxford College, Virginia Tech, Kennesaw State University, and The Citadel. He has received fellowships and research grants from Princeton University, the American Philosophical Society, the Huntington Library, and the George C. Marshall Foundation.
Dr. Renouard has lived and worked in the United States, China, the Czech Republic, and Spain, and he has taught at Emory University, Oxford College, Virginia Tech, Kennesaw State University, and The Citadel. He has received fellowships and research grants from Princeton University, the American Philosophical Society, the Huntington Library, and the George C. Marshall Foundation.
The Transatlantic Community and China in the Age of Disruption: Partners, Competitors, Rivals (co-editor with Daniel S. Hamilton) (Routledge, 2024)
Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse (Penn Press, 2016)
“Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: The United States, Europe, and China in an Age of Rivalry and Disruption” (with Daniel S. Hamilton), chapter in The Transatlantic Community and China in the Age of Disruption: Partners, Competitors, Rivals (2024)
“Introduction” (with Daniel S. Hamilton), in The Transatlantic Community and China in the Age of Disruption: Partners, Competitors, Rivals (2024)
Review of Philip Taubman, In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz, H-Diplo/Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum (RJISSF) Roundtable (forthcoming).
“America’s Aging Political Class,” International Policy Digest, January 20, 2024, https://intpolicydigest.org/america-s-aging-political-class/
“Saddam Hussein Was America’s Partner, Until He Wasn’t: A Look at the Documentary Evidence,” International Affairs Forum, 22 December 2023, https://www.ia-forum.org/Content/ViewInternalDocument.cfm?ContentID=9732
“Introduction,” Post-Mortem on Iraq: What Assessments of the US Failure in Iraq Tell Us about American Foreign Policy, H-Diplo/Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum (RJISSF) Roundtable, 7 April 2023, https://issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJISSF-Policy-Roundtable-II-1.pdf
“How a Peanut Farmer from Georgia Made Human Rights Matter” (“Jimmy Carter and Human Rights: A Reconsideration”), International Policy Digest, 3 April 2023, https://intpolicydigest.org/how-a-peanut-farmer-from-georgia-made-human-rights-matter/
“Whatever They Say Now, America’s Political and Media Elites Overwhelmingly Supported the Iraq War,” Z Network, 21 March 2023, https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whatever-they-say-now-americas-political-and-media-elites-overwhelmingly-supported-the-iraq-war/
“The Iraq War at 20: The Groundwork for the US-Led Invasion Was Laid Long before 2003,” International Affairs Forum, 20 March 2023, https://ia-forum.org/Content/ViewInternal_Document.cfm?contenttype_id=5&ContentID=9516
“Johns Hopkins SAIS Faculty and Fellow Reflections: The War in Ukraine at One Year,” SAIS Review (web content), 24 February 2023, https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/sais-faculty-war-in-ukraine-one-year/
Interviewed by Asahi Shimbun (Japan): Ryo Kiyomiya, “‘Biden Diplomacy’ at the Halfway Point: Evaluation and Challenges According to the Experts,” Asahi Shimbun, 21 January 2023, https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASR1N6Q8BR1NUHBI02K.html
“Fear Was on the 2022 Ballot, with More in Store for '24,” HNN, 18 December 2022, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/184634
“China Was an Issue in the Midterms, Especially in Attack Ads,” The Diplomat, 9 November 2022, https://thediplomat.com/2022/11/china-was-an-issue-in-the-us-midterms-especially-in-attack-ads/
“Human Rights in US and EU Foreign Policies,” in Donald E. Abelson and Stephen Brooks, eds., Transatlantic Relations: Challenge and Resilience (Routledge, 2022)
Interviewed by Phillip Adams on ABC Radio (Australia) program Late Night Live, “Nixon’s and Whitlam’s Visits to China, 50 Years On,” 23 February 2022, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/nixons-and-whitlams-visits-to-china,-50-years-on/13765990
Interviewed by Matt Chorley on Times Radio (UK), “President Nixon’s Visit to China: 50 Years On,” 21 February 2022, https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/red-box-politics-podcast-74264/episodes/nixon-visits-china-50-years-on-129444904
Interviewed by BBC News Chinese Service, 林祖伟, 尼克松访华50周年：中美关系能否再“破冰” [Lin Zuwei, “The 50th Anniversary of Nixon's Visit to China: Can China-US Relations ‘Break the Ice’ Again?”], 21 February 2022, https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-60451326
“A Tale of Two Olympics: Changed China in a Changed World,” HNN, 13 February 2022, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/182412
Interviewed by Exame (Brazil): Carolina Riveira, “Após sucesso de 2008, China sedia Olimpíada em meio a tensões globais” [“After the success of 2008, China hosts the Olympics amid global tensions”], 3 February 2022, https://exame.com/mundo/pequim-olimpiadas-inverno-2022/
“Despite Its Divisions, the GOP Will Adapt,” Washington Examiner, 19 March 2021, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/despite-its-divisions-the-gop-will-adapt.
Interviewed by ABC Radio National (Australia) program Rear Vision, 14 February 2021, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/nixon-and-mao-1972/13145030
“Post-Election America Will Still Be Deeply Divided, HNN, 1 November 2020, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/178027
Quoted in “The Korean War: China’s Reminder of Strength against the US,” South China Morning Post, 21 Sept. 2020, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3102427/korean-war-chinas-reminder-strength-against-us.
“‘The War to Resist America:’ How China Remembers the Korean War,” The Diplomat, 25 June 2020, https://thediplomat.com/2020/06/the-war-to-resist-america-how-china-remembers-the-korean-war/. [With Woyu Liu]
“Turn out the Lights: When the Last American Diplomats Fled China,” HNN, 10 May 2020, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/175392.
“Sino-Western Relations, Political Values, and the Human Rights Council,” Journal of Transatlantic Studies 18, No. 1 (March 2020).
“The Last of the Fiscally Responsible Presidents,” HNN, 16 February 2020, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174326.
“America’s New Hong Kong Human Rights Act May be Provocative, But It’s Not Surprising,” The Diplomat, 30 November 2019, https://thediplomat.com/2019/11/americas-new-hong-kong-human-rights-act-may-be-provocative-but-its-not-surprising/.
“China Concerns: Why the GOP Sees Beijing as Shifting from Friend to Foe,” The National Interest, 12 November 2019, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/china-concerns-why-gop-sees-beijing-shifting-friend-foe-95886.
“Washington’s Anti-China Mood Is Here to Stay,” The Diplomat, 14 August 2019, https://thediplomat.com/2019/08/americas-anti-china-mood-is-here-to-stay/.
“‘The Most Deeply Honorable Form of Government Ever Devised by Man:’ Reagan, Human Rights, and Democracy,” in William Michael Schmidli and Robert Pee, eds., The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019).
In the News
The week that changed the world—President Nixon's visit to China in 1972 and his meeting with Chairman Mao.
Joe Renouard interviewed on Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, 02/14
Post-election America will still be deeply divided.
Joe Renouard wrote for History News Network, 11/01
The Korean War: China’s reminder of strength against the U.S.
Joe Renouard quoted in South China Morning Post, 9/21
‘The war to resist America’: How China remembers the Korean War.
Joe Renouard wrote in The Diplomat, 6/25
Turn out the lights: When the last American diplomats fled China
Joe Renouard wrote for History News Network, 5/13
America’s new Hong Kong human rights act may be provocative, but it’s not surprising.
Joe Renouard wrote in The Diplomat, 11/30
China concerns: Why the GOP sees Beijing as shifting from friend to foe.
Joe Renouard wrote in The National Interest, 11/12