Where are the Kissingers for the 21st Century?
Read this article: Global Brief (Winter 2010), 32-35.
Disarmament Attempts Past: Successes and Failures
Read this article: U.S. Department of State ejournal 15 (February 2010), 20-24.
American Grand Strategy After the Cold War’s End to 9/11
Read this article: Orbis 53 (Fall 2009), 611-27.
The Rise and Fall of an International Counterculture, 1960–1975
…Existential angst was not unique to the period, but it became pervasive in a context of heightened promises about a better life and strong fears about the political implications of social deviance. Ideological competition in the Cold War encouraged citizens to look beyond material factors alone, and to seek a deeper meaning in their daily activities.
Read this article: The American Historical Review, 114:45–68, February 2009
Henry Kissinger, the American Dream, and the Jewish Immigrant Experience in the Cold War
Read this article: Diplomatic History 32 (November 2008), 719-47.
Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of Global Conflict since 1945
Read this article: International Journal 63 (Autumn 2008), 1013-29.
Détente and Human Rights: American and West European Perspectives on International Change
Read this article: Cold War History 8 (November 2008), 527-45.
The Promise and Failure of ‘Developed Socialism:’ The Soviet ‘Thaw’ and the Crucible of the Prague Spring, 1964-1972
Read this article: Contemporary European History 15 (May 2006), 133-58.
The Cold War, Decolonization, and Global Social Awakenings: Historical Intersections
Read this article: Cold War History 6 (August 2006), 353-63.
The Cultural Contradictions of Cold War Education: The Case of West Berlin
Read this article: Cold War History 4 (April 2004), 1-20.
Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus?
Read this article: Journal of Cold War Studies 4 (Fall 2002), 60-92.
America’s Search for a Technological Solution to the Arms Race: The Surprise Attack Conference of 1958 and a Challenge for “Eisenhower Revisionists”
Read this article: Diplomatic History 21 (Summer 1997), 417-51.
The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon’s Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam
On the morning of October 27, 1969, a squadron of 18 B-52s — massive bombers with eight turbo engines and 185-foot wingspans — began racing from the western US toward the eastern border of the Soviet Union…Codenamed Giant Lance, [President] Nixon’s plan was the culmination of a strategy of premeditated madness he had developed with national security adviser Henry Kissinger.
Read full article at wired.com (25 Oct 2008) …
The world the superpowers made
The devastation of Europe and Asia in 1945 left two states with inordinate influence on the future course of international affairs – the United States and the Soviet Union. These were the only two countries to emerge from the Second World War stronger than before they entered it. They had mobilised their vast resources for maximum effect: building more weapons and placing more citizens under arms than ever before in either nation’s history. They had also expanded their territorial control and influence far beyond previous limits. When US President Harry Truman and Soviet General Secretary Josef Stalin met in Potsdam, Germany in July 1945 most observers recognised that the decisions of these two men would determine the future course of world history.
Read more at History in Focus (Spring 2006) …
Reinventing NASA, Part Two: ‘New frontiers’ and the tempests along the way
Historians will look back on early 2004 as a momentous period in the life of our universe. The landing of two exploratory vehicles on Mars and President Bush’s speech at NASA headquarters indicate that the world has embarked on a new age of exploration…At first glance, Bush’s words evoke parallels with President John F. Kennedy’s muscular rhetoric in the early 1960s.
Read more at San Francisco Chronicle (February 1, 2004, page D-5) …
Henry Kissinger’s Lessons for George W. Bush
Although Kissinger’s insights from fighting the Vietnam War have not helped in Iraq, his maneuvers with China do provide a model for navigating relations with Iran. Here is a roadmap for President Bush and Kissinger’s closest contemporary counterpart, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to begin their historic opening to Iran.
Read more at History News Network (July, 20, 2007)
