nThe Society For Historians of American Foreign Relations
nAnnual Meeting 2005, College Park Maryland
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Registration: 10:00am - 5:30pm (Lower Level)
Chair: David Woolner, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute A Force for Peace: Anglo-American Diplomatic Relations and the Far Eastern
Crisis, 1932-1941 The Stimson-Simon Controversy and Anglo-American Far Eastern Relations,
1932-1945 The Past is Too Far Away: One Historian’s Experience with the Commentator: David Woolner
PANEL 1: Economic Growth as Ideology and Practice: American Influence and European Modernization, 1945-1973 (Room B) Chair: Mary Nolan, New York University Washington, The Hague, and the Politics of Productivity, 1945-1955 From the Revolt of the Masses to the ‘Revolution of Rising Expectations’ ‘A Model of Licentiousness:’ Growth, Redistribution, and the Critique
of the American Model in Postwar Dutch Economic Thought Commentator: Richard Kuisel, Georgetown University PANEL 2: Personalities and Personality Conflicts in Sino-American Relations, 1946-1974 (Room C) Chair: Maochun Yu, United States Naval Academy A Death in Shanghai: Zang Da Ao Zi in Chinese-American Relations Alfred Kohlberg and the Two-Front War against Communism Pawns of the Cold War: John Foster Dulles, the PRC, and the Imprisonment
of John Downey and Richard Fecteau Nixon and the Opening to China: An Evaluation Commentator: John Earl Haynes, Library of Congress
Chair: Robbie Lieberman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale The H-Bomb and You: Portrayals of the Atomic Bomb in Comic Books, 1945-1954 Producing Hollywood’s Cold War: The Anticommunist Campaign Against an
Un-American Screen Beatniks and Apparatchiks: The Cold War and the Beats Commentator: Veronica Wilson, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
Chair: Joseph A. Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas A Spiritual Challenge from the East?: John Foster Dulles, SEATO, and
the Bandung Conference, 1954-1955 The Popular Origins of the Anglo-American Special Relationship: The Honourable
Artillery Company’s 1903 American Tour Beyond Bretton Woods: Competing Global Visions of Global Monetary Order,
1971-1974 The Face of Evil: Rhetoric and War from Thomas Jefferson to Commentator: Mark Lawrence, University of Texas, Austin
Chair: James Jay Carafano, The Heritage Foundation The Marshall Plan Movie in Austria: Political Intermediality and Narrative
Techniques Marshall Plan Money and Tutelage: Austria and the United States in the
late 1950s Reconstructing Austria: The Marshall Plan in an Exhibition at the Museum
of Technology and Science Vienna Commentator: Hans-Juergen Schröder, University of Giessen
Chair: Kristen L. Ahlberg, Office of Historian, U.S. Department of State Domestic Containment: The Handling of General Eisenhower by the Kennedy
and Johnson Administrations Ralph Dungan, Lincoln Gordon, and the Struggle for the Soul of the Alliance
for Progress, 1964-1967 Reducing the American Burden: U.S. Mediation between the Republic of
Korea and Japan, 1961-1965 Commentator: Alan McPherson, Howard University
PANEL 7: The Interwar Experience of the 1920s and 1930s: Lessons in Understanding
American Approaches and Attitudes toward Chair: Greg Kennedy, King’s College, London Herbert Hoover, FDR, and Their Different Approaches to Global Leadership
in the Interwar and Second World War Periods Cordell Hull, the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, and the Post-War Economic
Order An Olympian Adviser: Sumner Welles and an American Vision of a Postwar
World in 1940 The Idea of a New World Order is No New Idea Commentator: Greg Kennedy
Chair: Lloyd Ambrosius, University of Nebraska Real Life Administrator or the Fictional Philip Dru: Edward M. House
and His Influence on Wilsonian Foreign Policy Wilson’s Admirals: Frank Fletcher, Henry Mayo, and the Occupation of
Veracruz, 1914 The Elusive Separate Peace: Wilson’s Attempts to ‘Drive a Wedge’ Between
Austria-Hungary and Germany Twenty Five Years in the Making: Woodrow Wilson, Hollywood, and Internationalism Commentator: Lloyd Ambrosius
Chair: Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young University The Cross-Examiner: Clark Clifford, South Vietnam, and the Question of
Cold War Credibility, 1966-1967 Staying Out of this Chinese Muddle: The Johnson Administration’s Response
to the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 Supporting Benign Authoritarianism: The Johnson Administration and South
Korean Politics LBJ and Nuclear Problems in South Asia Commentator: Andrew Preston, University of Victoria
Chair: Erin R. Mahan, Office of Historian, U.S. Department of State In Defense of the West: General R.L. Norstad, NATO Nuclear Forces, and
Transatlantic Relations Pen Pals: Dean Acheson, Dirk Stikker, and NATO Problems, 1959-1961 At the Pulse of the Alliance?: NATO Ambassadors Thomas Finletter, Harlan
Cleveland, and Europe, 1962-1966 Commentator: William Burr, National Security Archive
Chair: Kai Bird, Independent Scholar Moving Targets: Nuclear Targeting and the Ethics of Mass Killing, 1940-1945 Manhattan Project Scientists and the Internationalization of Domestic
Anticommunism Commentator: Barton J. Bernstein, Stanford University
Chair: Dennis Merrill, University of Missouri, Kansas City Race, Gender, and Religion and the U.S. Intervention in British Guiana,
1953-1969 In the American Grain: The Construction of Internal Security in the Americas,
1961-1969 Commentator: Emily S. Rosenberg, Macalester College
EVENING PLENARY SESSION Lessons of Vietnam: Alliance Politics and the Legacy of Losing (Auditorium) Chair: David Anderson, California State University, Monterey Bay Falling Dominoes: The United States, Vietnam, and the War in Iraq The Lessons of Vietnam and Alliance Maintenance ‘Tired of Being Treated Like a Schoolboy’: U.S.-Iranian Relations in
the Shadow of Vietnam Changing American Missions: The Impact of the Vietnam War on the State
Department Commentator: Luu Doan Huynh, Institute for International Relations, Hanoi
Registration: 8:30am - 5:30pm (Lower Level) SESSION I: 9:00am - 11:00am PANEL 13: Religion, Outreach, and Persecution in American Diplomacy (Room B) Chair: Michael Krenn, Appalachian State University Traitors to a Christian Nation: Mormons in the American Empire of the
West Armies of Mercy: American Religious Welfare Organizations and the Allied
War Effort in World War I The Great Game Continued: Post 1945 Transatlantic Relations with the
Eastern Orthodox Church Commentator: Michael Krenn
Chair: James J. Hastings, Director of Access Programs, National Archives A General Overview of Electronic Records for Historians of American Foreign
Relations Foreign Relations and Electronic Records at NARA Diplomatic Paper Trails: An Overview of Textual Records at the National
Archives Using the 1973-1974 Central Foreign Policy Files on the Internet
Chair: Robert Allison, Suffolk University Early American Relations with the Middle East: An Overview of the Scholarship
and Suggestions for Synthesis Opium and Orientalism: Early American Trade in the Levant, 1797-1839 Constantinople Women’s College: America’s Mission and Evangelical Feminism,
1875-1908 The Crescent and the Eagle: Evolution of the American Image in the Ottoman
Empire from the Tripolitan Wars to the Great War PANEL 16: Protesters Without Borders: Transnational Movements and U.S. Foreign Policy (Room D) Chair: Ralph B. Levering, Davidson College The Diplomacy of Withdrawal: Drug Treatment in a Transnational Context “Betrayal, Treason, Un-American Activities,” or Recovery of American
Ideas? Federal Union and the Formative Moment of Postwar U.S. Diplomacy From Thermonuclear to Antinuclear: Scientists and the Test Ban, 1957-1963 From Opposition to Cooperation: Transnational Groups and American Policy
towards the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Commentator: Amy L. S. Staples, Middle Tennessee State University
Chair: Peter Hahn, Ohio State University A New York State of Mind: The New York State Liberal Party and President
Truman’s Decision to Recognize Israel We Know that a Grain of Wheat is a Potent Weapon in the Arsenal The Southern Strategy Reconsidered: The Influence of U.S. Commentator: Leo Ribuffo, George Washington University
Chair: Donald N. Jensen, George Washington University The Atlanticist Establishment and its Successful Strategy after the 1890s The League of Free Nations Associations: The First Organized Attempt
to Move Policy Toward a Union of Democracies Sources and Concept of Postwar Cultural Diplomacy Commentator: Richard C. Rowson, Council for a Community of Democracies
Chair: Mark Gilderhus, Texas Christian University Mitch Lerner, Ohio State University, Newark SHAFR Council Luncheon Meeting, 11:15am - 12:45pm SESSION II: 1:00pm - 3:00pm PANEL 19: In Defense of Liberty: Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (Room A) Chair: Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia Deportation: The Origins of a National and International Power, 1 Bill Donovan, the Office of Policy Coordination, and the Construction
of a Cold War Ideology Ideological Mobilization, Past and Present: Rhetorical Strategies from
the Cold War to the War on Terror A House Divided: Truman, Zhdanov, and the Beginning of the Cold Commentator: Robert J. McMahon, University of Florida PANEL 20: Friends but Not Allies: U.S.-Irish Relations since 1941 (Room B) Chair: David P. Kilroy, Wheeling Jesuit University Anger, Spite, and ‘Manly Men’: The Role of Emotion in the Versailles
Treaty Battle Between Woodrow Wilson and Irish-Americans Operation SAFEHAVEN and the Search for German Assets in Ireland Neutral Ireland and the Defence of the North Atlantic Area: The Use of
Shannon Airport by the United States Military in a Historical Perspective,
1941-2001 Diplomatic Troubles: U.S.-Irish Relations and the Outbreak of the Violence
in Northern Ireland, 1969-1972 Commentator: David P. Kilroy
Chair: Jonathan Nashel, Indiana University, South Bend A Place…in Our Hearts: Wesley R. Rishel and the Michigan State University
Group Hans J. Morgenthau and U.S. Nation Building in Vietnam: The Danger of
Doing Too Much Understanding the Enemy: The RAND Corporation’s Vietnam Interview project,
Commentator: John Ernst, Morehead State University
Chair: Scott Kaufman, Francis Marion University Narrowing Down the Mission: The Carter Administration Treatment of Human
A Convenient Line in the Sand: The Carter Administration and the Yemeni
Crisis of 1979 In Search of a Strong Response: President Carter and the Decision to
Boycott the 1980 Olympic Games Commentator: David Skidmore, Drake University
Chair: Mark Bradley, Northwestern University Imagining the ‘New Woman’: Chinese Feminists View the West,1905-1915 Consuming Hollywood: Japanese Cultural Elites and American Movies, 1945-1952 The Cultural Korean War: War and its Cultural Impact in South Korea Commentator: Mark Bradley
Chair: Thomas S. Blanton, National Security Archive Mission Accomplished? American Thinking about Liberating and Remaking
Tsarist, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia Rollback and Liberation: An American Offensive Strategy for the Cold
War, 1947-1991 Scientific Containment: American Inducement of Defection to Undermine
East German Science, 1950-1961 Commentator: James G. Hershberg, George Washington University
PANEL 25: Economic Development, Nation Building, and History (Room A) Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University Analogies of Development: Using the Past to Plan Nation-Building in Afghanistan
and Iraq Nation Building, Private Contractors, and War Profiteering from Iraq
South Korea as a U.S. Development Problem, 1945-1965 Commentator: Tyler Priest, University of Houston
Chair: Brian C. Etheridge, Louisiana Tech University Conditioned by Their Past Traditions; U.S. Exchange Programs and the
Promotion of Free Enterprise in Latin America, 1953-1961 The Arbenz Factor: Salvador Allende, the 1954 Guatemala Intervention,
and U.S. Cold War Policy in Latin America Contemporary U.S.A. on Display: American Cultural and Commercial Exhibitions
in the Soviet Bloc during the 1960s Commentator: James F. Siekmeier, Office of Historian, U.S. Department of State
Chair: Mark Bradley, Northwestern University Transubstantion, American-style: National Embodiment and the Popularization
of Foreign Relations in 1950s Iraq: Like Ike’s Vietnam War Flip-Flop: John Kerry and Public Memory of the Vietnam War Commentator: Melani McAlister, George Washington University
Chair: Emily S. Rosenberg, Macalester College Point Four in Central America ‘No one looked at me as a foreigner’: Policymaking, Expert Knowledge,
and the Ford Foundation in India, 1951-1965 Bringing ‘The Gospel of Modernization’ to Nigeria: The MIT Connection
and Nigerian Economic Planning in the 1960s Commentator: Christopher T. Fisher, College of New Jersey
Chair: Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong China’s Domestic Politics and Sino-American Rapprochement, January 1969-February
1972 China’s People Diplomacy in the 1950s and Its Impact on the U.S.-Japan
Security Alliance Unspecified Terms of Cohabitation: U.S.–Korean Relations, 1953-1966,
As Seen Through the Relations Between GIs and Koreans Commentator: Steven Phillips, Towson University
Chair: Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A&M University Leverage, Leaks and Liabilities: Holy Loch and the ‘Special’ Anglo-American
Nuclear Relationship, 1960-1965 The United States in the Azores: The First Years, 1944-1948 The Evolution of a Pluralistic Security Community: Impact and Perspectives
Regarding the Presence of American Military Bases in Italy The Cold War Comes to Scotland: The Holy Loch Base and Its Impact, 1959-1974 Commentator: Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A&M University
One Vietnam War Should Be Enough and Other Reflections on Diplomatic
History and the Making of Foreign Policy
Registration: 8:30am - 5:30pm
PANEL 31: The Uses of History in Twenty-First Century U.S. Foreign Policy (Room B) Chair: Ernest R. May, Harvard University Reflections on Iraq and Iran Policy Counterinsurgency Today The Strategic Revolution in South Asia Commentator: Ernest R. May
Chair: James Matray, California State University, Chico Re-examining de Gaulle’s Peace Initiatives on the Vietnam War Peacekeeping and the Cold War in Asia: Lessons from the Past Vietnam and Anglo-American Sentimentality: Perception and Illusion in
the Special Relationship
Chair: Davd F. Schmitz, Whitman College Citizenship, Nationality, and Expatriation: African Americans Abroad
in the Dred Scott Era Unequal Treaties as Pro-China or Simply Pro-Greed? The U.S. State Department
Reexamines Extraterritoriality, 1933-1934 South of the Border with Bogart: U.S.-Mexican Relations and THE TREASURE
OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) Commentator: Paul Kramer, John Hopkins University PANEL 34: History as Past and Present: Infamous Acts, Notorious Wars, and Human Rights (Auditorium) Chair: Matthew Jones, University of Nottingham Vietnam and Iraq: Does History Repeat Itself? The Past is Never Far Away from Another War on Terrorism: Writing American
Counter-Terrorism Policy under and Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush Catalysing Events, Think Tanks and American Foreign Policy Shifts: A
Comparative Analysis of the Impacts of Pearl Harbor and 9/11 Wilsonianism Revisited?: Human Rights Promotion in the Foreign Policy
of the George W. Bush Administration Commentator: Klaus Larres, University of London
Chair: Kathryn Weathersby, Woodrow Wilson International Center Socialism, Sovereignty, and the North Korean Exception Nihilateralism in a Bipolar World?: Mongolian-American Non-Relations
during the Cold War Ulbricht Doctrine or Gomulka Doctrine?: Moscow-Warsaw-East Berlin and
the Non-Recognition of the German Democratic Republic Playing the China Card?: France and the Recognition of Communist China,
1963-1964 Commentator: Jussi Hanhimaki, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Chair: David P. Nickles, Office of Historian, U.S. Department of State An Ocean Apart: The Radio Corporation of America in Nationalist China Telstar’s Launch, Satellite Orbits, and High-Altitude Atomic Testing:
Implications for the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty? U.S. Foreign Policy and Communications Technology in the Cold War: Avoiding
Field’s ‘Worst Chapter’ Syndrome Commentator: Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Luncheon Address: 11:30am - 1:30pm The Politics of Truth
PANEL 37: Modernization and Reform in the Muslim World 1950s to 1990s (Room B) Chair: Douglas Little, Clark University Before Jihad: American Conceptions of Democratization and Modernization
in the Middle East 1945-1965 To See the Desert Blossom Again: Cold War Foreign Policy and the Dilemma
of Modernization in the Middle East Uncertain Allies: Jordan’s King Hussein and the United States, 1953-1999 Cold War Roots of Militant Islam Commentator: Douglas Little PANEL 38: Two Hundred Years of ‘Imperial America’ (Room C) Chair: Jeffrey Kimball, Miami University of Ohio American Support for Empire, 1815-1860 Justifying Interventions in Nicaragua: From the Roosevelt Corollary to
the Bush Doctrine Commentator: Jeffrey Kimball
Chair: Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archive ARVN: A Social History of America’s Ally in Vietnam The End of the Affair: US-RVN Relations in the Post-Tet War The Mystery of Marigold: New Evidence on the Secret Italian-Polish Peace
Initiative in Vietnam, 1966 A Mote in the Eye: Haiphong in U.S. Diplomacy and Strategy during the
Vietnam War The Selling of the War President, 1972
Chair: Sayuri Shimizu, Michigan State University Toxic Gas Warfare in China and the Japanese Army Victims of Biological Warfare? Unit 731 and Allied Prisoners of War U.S. Occupation Authorities and Korean Comfort Woman Evidence Commentator: Paula S. Harrell, Independent Scholar
Chair: Petra Goedde, Temple University The Atlantic Charter and Atlantic Identity in American International
Relations History The Feebleness of Alternatives: The Politics of Rhetoric and the An Atlantic Phoenix: Pulling West German Rearmament Out of the Commentator: Petra Goedde
Chair: Theodore A. Wilson, University of Kansas Mark Gilderhus, Texas Christian University SESSION III: 4:00pm - 6:00pm PANEL 43: The CIA: Perceptions, Practice, and Organization Chair: John Prados, National Security Archive The Central Intelligence Agency and Nationalism in the Middle East during
the Early Cold War: The CIA in Egypt and Iran, 1950-1960 Detecting the Enemy: The Polygraph and the Values of Truth in the Founding
of the CIA and the National Security State ‘Goodbye, Mr. Thornhill, Wherever You Are’: Hollywood Representations
of the CIA’s Role in American Foreign Relations Stopping the Soviets at Any Cost: The CIA’s Information Sharing Agreement
with Yugoslav Intelligence after the Tito-Stalin Split Commentator: John Prados
Chair: Matthew Connelly, Columbia University Benevolent Internationalism: Anti-Opium and the Imperial Project Race and Freedom in U.S.-Caribbean Relations Vietnamese, Africans, and Arabs: The First Indochina War, 1945-1954,
and the Limits of Third-Worldism Commentator: Matthew Connelly
Chair: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut Walking in the Shadows of Munich and Vietnam The Interpretation Factor: Overcoming the Language Barrier at the Nuremberg
War Crimes Trial Hope and the Art of Speeches: ‘Conversational Politics’ as a Methodology
to Describe the Impact of Language on Politics Respected as a Great People Who Deserve To Be Free: Rhetoric Versus Reality
in the Tripolitan War Commentator: Frank Costigliola
Chair: Marc J. Selverstone, University of Virginia Complementary Interests: U.S. Policy Toward Finland in the Early Cold
War, 1945-1961 The U.S. Neutrality in the Twentieth Century: The collision of Neutrality,
Morality, and Hegemony The Legacy of Wartime Neutrality: U.S.-Irish Relations in the Early Cold
War Commentator: Marc J. Selverstone
Chair: Richard H. Immerman, Temple University Ideas and Choices: Eisenhower’s International Crisis Management Human Rights and Foreign Policy: Wilson and the Greek Dictators 1967-1970 America, Europe, and Western Security: Responding to the Early Manifestations
of the Challenges of Globalization, 1973-1975 North America, Atlanticism, and the Helsinki Process Commentator: Thomas A. Schwarz, Vanderbilt University
Chair: Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University Diplomatic Historians and the Usable Past Commentator: Mikyoung Kim, Portland State University |