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SHAFR Opinion
Newt Gingrich and the (ab)Uses of History
by Andrew JohnstoneIt is an honor to join the SHAFR blogging team for 2011-12. While SHAFR is (as the name makes perfectly clear) a society that focuses on the history of American foreign relations, there is no doubt that we are as well placed as anyone to make connections between historical events and contemporary issues in American [...]
W(h)ither the Bilateral Study?: what of the History of U.S. Foreign Policy can tell us about the Emergent Multilateral World
by James SiekmeierBack during the Cold War, bilateral studies were common. Indeed the proliferation of bilateral studies seemed to be almost a natural process—it was thought that we humans were seemingly biologically hard-wired to separate things in to this/that, either/or, good/evil, etc.
Recently, however, the genre of “United States and …[insert country name here] “ studies seem to [...]
Moving Beyond (and Before) the Cold War
by David EkbladhI’ll take up the point raised by Shane Maddock’s recent post on moving beyond the Cold War. I share his feeling that the focus on the conflict has imposed its own “interpretive framework” on scholarship in U.S. foreign relations and international history generally and that this scaffolding can limit our understanding of a slew of [...]
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Books by our bloggers:
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H-Diplo- H-Diplo Roundtable, Vol. XIII, No. 17 (2012)- Christopher J. Bright. Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War
- H-Net academic announcements & GWU Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research
- CFP: "Nuclear (Non-)Proliferation in the Postwar World," AHA, New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013