Joe Renouard

• “The United States, the European Union and China in the Biden-von der Leyen Era,” Asian Affairs: An American Review, Vol. 52, No. 4, October 2025. (with Daniel S. Hamilton)
• “Only Yesterday: Canada-US Convergence on China,” Open Canada (Canadian International Council), 30 April 2025, https://opencanada.org/only-yesterday-canada-us-convergence-on-china/
• The Transatlantic Community and China in the Age of Disruption: Partners, Competitors, Rivals (co-edited with Daniel S. Hamilton) (Routledge, 2024)
• “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
• Interviewed by Ryo Kiyomiya, “‘Biden Diplomacy’ at the Halfway Point,” Asahi Shimbun (Japan), 21 January 2023.
• “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, Late Night Live, “Nixon’s and Whitlam’s Visits to China, 50 Years On,” ABC Radio (Australia), 23 February 2022.
• Interviewed by Matt Chorley, “President Nixon’s Visit to China: 50 Years On,” Times Radio (UK), 21 February 2022.
• Interviewed by Lin Zuwei, BBC News Chinese Service, 尼克松访华50周年：中美关系能否再“破冰” [“The 50th Anniversary of Nixon's Visit to China: Can China-US Relations ‘Break the Ice’ Again?”], 21 February 2022.
• “A Tale of Two Olympics: Changed China in a Changed World,” HNN, 13 February 2022, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/182412
• Interviewed by 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”], Exame (Brazil), 3 February 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.
• “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.
• “‘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).
• “The Steady-Hand Foreign Policy of George H. W. Bush,” HNN, 7 December 2018, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170645.
• “Russia and the West: Don’t Expect Much from the Latest Tit-for-Tat Diplomatic Expulsions,” HNN, 4 April 2018, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168691. 
• “Japan, China, and the Strains of Historical Memory,” The Diplomat, 26 December 2017, https://thediplomat.com/2017/12/japan-china-and-the-strains-of-historical-memory/.
• “Harrison Salisbury’s Hà Nội,” HNN, 3 December 2017, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167375. 
• “Trump and China: Getting Beyond North Korea,” The National Interest, 3 August 2017, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/trump-china-getting-beyond-north-korea-21779.
• “Donald Trump, Humanitarian?: Stranger Things Have Happened,” American Diplomacy, Summer 2017, http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2017/0106/oped/renouard_ stranger.html.
• “Sino-American Trade: What Comes Next,” The Diplomat, 29 April 2017, http://thediplomat.com/2017/04/sino-american-trade-what-comes-next/. 
• “How America Can Avoid a War with China,” The National Interest, 21 February 2017, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-america-can-avoid-war-china-19523.
• Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse (Penn Press, 2016)
• “Vietnam: America’s Latest Forgotten War,” HNN, 1 May 2015, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159289. 
• “Containment, Again: A Long-Term Perspective on Recent Russian Claims,” American Diplomacy, April 2015, http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2015/0106/ca/renouard_containment.html.
• “Get Carter: Assessing the Record of the Thirty-Ninth President,” in V. Scott Kaufman, ed., A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).
• “Teaching Robert D. Kaplan’s Asia’s Cauldron,” Education About Asia, Winter 2014-15.
• “Tiananmen, Globalized,” The Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2014.
• “25 Years Later: What Have We Learned?” HNN, 25 May 2014.
• “The New International Economic Order: A Transatlantic Perspective,” in Cristina Crespo Palomares & David García Cantalapiedra, eds., North and South: The United States, the European Union, and the Developing World (Alcalá: Franklin Institute, 2013).
• “Eisenhower, Kennedy and the CIA: Guatemala and the Bay of Pigs,” in Christos G. Frentzos and Antonio Thompson, eds., The Routledge Handbook of U.S. Diplomatic and Military History (New York: Routledge, 2013).
• “The Nixon-Mao Summit: A Week that Changed the World?” in Education About Asia 17, no. 3 (Winter 2012-13).

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