SHAFR 2013 Annual MeetingAmerica and the World — The World and AmericaThursday, June 20, 2013 - 9:00am to Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 5:00pm Renaissance Arlington Capital View. 2800 South Potomac Ave, Arlington, VA 22202 This webpage has been deactivated but is being preserved for archival purposes. Conference ProgramTHURSDAY, 20 JUNE 2013 SHAFR Council Meeting: 8:00 AM – 12:45 PM, Studio A SHAFR Teaching Committee Meeting: 8:00 – 10:00 AM, Boardroom Registration: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Second Floor Reception Area Book Exhibit: 12:00 – 5:00 PM, Second Floor Reception Area Special Session on Conducting Research at NARA: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Studio B David Langbart, Senior Archivist, National Archives and Record Administration, will provide an overview of how to conduct research in the variety of records related to foreign relations, and devote substantial time to answering questions about research projects.
Session I: 1:00-3:00 PM (Panels 1-10)
Panel 1: Expanding the Field in the Classroom: A Practical Guide to Teaching New Topics in the History of American Foreign Relations Citizen Protection Cases: Where Everyday People Meet the State Nicole M. Phelps, University of Vermont Crude Lessons: Integrating Oil into the History of U.S. Foreign Relations David S. Painter, Georgetown University Law and Hidden Histories of 19th Century American Foreign Relations Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest University Explaining the Concept of Transnational History to Students Brooke L. Blower, Boston University Comment: the audience
Panel 2: Sport and Foreign Relations in a Global Age Chair: Andrew Johns, Brigham Young University “Kenya’s Foreign Legion”: Running for the NCAA in the Wake of Independence Jessica M. Chapman, Williams College Supporting Detroit: The State Department’s Role in the NATO Working Group on the 1968 Olympic Games Heather L. Dichter, Ithaca College Surfing as Cultural Diplomacy Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota Duluth Comment: Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu, Michigan State University
Panel 3: Congress and Foreign Policy: The Cold War and Beyond Chair: Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State The Fodor-Fulbright Correspondence, Congress, and Public Diplomacy Fabienne Gouverneur, Andrássy University Budapest Fulbright’s Middle East: Ideology and Congressional Influence on Foreign Policy James Stocker, Trinity Washington University Reagan vs. Congress: The Fight to Sell AWACS to Saudi Arabia Christopher Maynard, University of North Alabama The U.S. Congress and the UN Sanctions on Iraq, 1990-2003 Joy Gordon, Fairfield University Comment: Chris Tudda
Panel 4: The United States and Israel: Diplomacy and Strategy, 1948-1968 Chair: Peter Hahn, Ohio State University The Struggle Over the Status Quo: The United States, Israel and the Issue of Jerusalem, 1948-1967 Gadi Heimann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem The United States, Israel, and the Crisis over Gaza, 1956-1957 Asaf Siniver, University of Birmingham The United States, Israel and Nuclear Desalination, 1964-1968 Zach Levey, University of Haifa Comment: Paul Chamberlin, University of Kentucky
Panel 5: If Kennedy Had Lived: U.S.-Latin American Relations in the 1960s Chair: Jeffrey Taffet, United States Merchant Marine Academy If Kennedy Had Lived: Contingency Planning for Brazil and Chile in the Kennedy Administration Andrew J. Kirkendall, Texas A&M University Kennedy, Johnson, and the Cold War Calculus of Mexico’s Relations with Cuba Renata Keller, Boston University Democratic Hard-Liners and Hard-Line Democrats: The Kennedy-Johnson Transition and the Venezuelan Call for a Tougher Stand Against Latin American Communism, 1963-1964 Aragorn Storm Miller, Cornell University “The historian must talk of two Alliances for Progress”: Kennedy, Johnson, and Latin American Policy, 1961-1968 Thomas Tunstall Allcock, University of Nottingham Comment: Jeffrey Taffet
Panel 6: The American-Vietnam War in Media, Museums, and Memory Chair: Mark Bradley, University of Chicago The Gendered World of Charlie Company: How Soldiers Who Killed Could Also Wear Peace Signs in the American/Vietnam War Martin Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Transnational Reconciliation at Khe Sanh/Tà Cơn Museum and Air Base Christina Schwenkel, University of California, Riverside Agent Orange Remembered (Or Not) in Vietnam and the U.S. Leslie J. Reagan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Comment: Christian G. Appy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Panel 7: New Perspectives on Development in the Third World and the Cold War in the ‘long’ 1950s Chair: Robert McMahon, Ohio State University Khrushchev, the Cold War and Soviet Central Asia Artemy M. Kalinovsky, University of Amsterdam Adapting to the New World: Mexico’s Modernization Project at the Outset of the Cold War, 1947-1952 Vanni Pettinà, Colegio de Mexico The Eisenhower Administration, Destalinization, and Khrushchev’s Economic Offensive in the Third World, 1955-56 Wes Ullrich, London School of Economics and Political Science Comment: Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna
Panel 8: NATO: An Alliance of Democracies? Chair: Patrick Jackson, American University The West and Democracy: The Gradual Evolution of an Uneasy Relationship Jasper Trautsch German Historical Institute The Dangers of Democracy? Re-thinking NATO’s “Shared Values and Common Heritage” Timothy Sayle, Temple University “Thinking EC,” “Thinking NATO”: Transatlantic Relations in the Era of Détente Harold Mock, University of Virginia Comment: Ronald Granieri, Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Panel 9: Volunteers or Vanguard? Coercion, Civic-Mindedness, and American Humanitarianism in Response to the Great War Chair: Mark Hendrickson, University of California-San Diego Unraveling American Neutrality: American Humanitarians and the Crusade to Save Belgium, 1914-1917 Branden Little, Weber State University How to Raise a Volunteer Army: Explaining Why American Humanitarians Served Overseas in the First World War Era Julia Irwin, University of South Florida Crusaders or Coerced Citizens? Motivations behind American Relief Workers in France, 1917-1924 Michael McGuire, Salem State University “Democratic Leadership by Women for Women”: The Historical Case of a Transnational Partnership between the U.S. and Czechoslovakia Erika Cornelius Smith, Purdue University Comment: Mark Hendrickson
Panel 10: Nuclear Cooperation and Competition between Brazil, Germany, and the United States in the Early Cold War Chair: William G. Gray, Purdue University, Nuclear Science after the Bomb: The Evolution of American and British Policies toward Nuclear Science during the Early Occupation of Germany Mary McPartland, The George Washington University The German Connection: The Origins of the Brazilian Nuclear Program and the Secret West German-Brazilian Cooperation in the Early 1950s Carlo Patti, Fundação Getulio Vargas The Nuclear Nation and the German Question: American Plans for A Reactor in West Berlin Mara Drogan, Siena College Comment: William G. Gray
BREAK: 3:00- 3:30 PM Sponsored by Cambridge University Press Coffee and light refreshments served in the reception area.
Session II: 3:30 – 5:30 PM (Panels 11-20)
Panel 11: Roundtable: The U.S. Armed Forces in America and in the World Chair: Richard Immerman, Temple University Aaron B. O’Connell, United States Naval Academy Gretchen Heefner, Connecticut College Kate Epstein, University of Rutgers-Camden
Panel 12: The Cold War in Asia: A Multilateral Approach Chair: Erez Manela, Harvard University Marshall Green and the Formation of the U.S. East Asian Policy, 1947-73 Midori Yoshii, Albion College Miki Takeo’s Initiative on the Korean Question and U.S.-Japanese Diplomacy, 1974-76 Seung-young Kim, University of Sheffield China’s Last Ally: Beijing’s Policy toward North Korea during the U.S.-China Rapprochement, 1971-76 Yafeng Xia, Long Island University Comment: Gregg Brazinsky, George Washington University
Panel 13: Nuclear Proliferation and Challenges to the U.S.-led Global Nuclear Order Chair: Anna-Mart van Wyk, Monash University Chasing Schrödinger’s Cat: Australia and U.S. Extended Nuclear Deterrence, 1945-1973 Christine M. Leah, Australian National University Brazil’s Nuclear Politics Under U.S. Influence: Between Acceptance and Equidistance Mariana Carpes, German Institute of Global and Area Studies “Closing the Barn Door: U.S. Non-Proliferation Policy and the Israeli Nuclear Programme during the 1960s Roland Popp, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich Inevitable but Highly Controversial? The Accession of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to the NPT (1967-1975) Andreas Lutsch, University of Mainz Comment: Joseph F. Pilat, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Panel 14: U.S. Subjects at Home and Abroad Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University Humanity Begins at Home: America’s First Refugees and the Roots of U.S. Humanitarianism Bethany Sharpe, University of Kentucky Economies of Childrearing and the Formation of American Colonialism in Hawai’i, 1820-1848 Joy Schulz, Metropolitan Community College Forgiving Empire: Debt and Difference in the Age of Decolonization Allan Lumba, University of Washington-Seattle Comment: Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University
Panel 15: U.S. Diplomacy, the Congo Crisis, and the Relation between the Cold War and Decolonization, 1960-1980 Chair: Ryan Irwin, University at Albany-SUNY The Soviet Union and the Congo Crisis, 1960-61 Alessandro Iandolo, New Economic School, Moscow The United Nations and the Congo Crisis (ONUC 1960-1964) Katrin Zippel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität America in Africa, Africa in America: The Changing Relationship during the Johnson Years James Meriwether, California State University, Channel Islands Comment: Ryan Irwin
Panel 16: America, Britain and the World of the 1960s and 1970s Chair: Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University Anglo-American Relations and Black Africa in a Changing World John Kent, London School of Economics The U.S. Embassy in London and Britain’s Withdrawal from East of Suez in the 1960s John Young, University of Nottingham Henry Kissinger, Transatlantic Relations, and the British Origins of the Year of Europe Dispute Matthew Jones, University of Nottingham IDEAS, America, Britain and the Challenge of Southern Europe in the 1970s Irene Karamouzis, Yale University and Effie Pedaliu, London School of Economics Comment: Michael Hopkins, Liverpool University
Panel 17: Space and Empire Chair: Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University Remaking Housing Policy in the Americas: Colombia and the United States, 1950-1980 Amy Offner, University of Pennsylvania Wheat for Homes and American Housing Investments in Peru, 1959-1962 Nancy Kwak, University of California at San Diego Habitat for Non-Humanity: Foreign-Trade Zones and the Political Economy of the Customs Territory Dara Orenstein, Wesleyan University Comment: Paul Kramer
Panel 18: No Laughing Matter: The Use of Comics in Foreign Relations Chair: Emily Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine Drawing the Line: Alliance for Progress Comic Books and the Fight Against Castro’s Cuba in Latin America Blair Woodard, University of Portland Sanmao Takes on Little Moe: Comics in the Cold War Propaganda Contest in Asia Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Defining the Enemy: State-Sanctioned Propaganda Comic Books at Home and Abroad, 1942-1945 Paul Hirsch, University of California, Santa Barbara
Panel 19: Agents of Influence: Alternative Diplomacies and Political Travelers in the Cold War Era Chair: Andrew Preston, Clare College, University of Cambridge Convenient Optimists: American Political Travelers in the Eyes of the PRC Foreign Policy Establishment Matthew D. Johnson, Grinnell College Dixieland in Bombay: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and the Importance of Playing Together Danielle Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University The Limits of Internationalism: American Political Travelers to France and the Rise of Travel Control in the Long 1960s Moshik Temkin, Harvard University Comment: Andrew Rotter, Colgate University
Panel 20: Transnational Labor and U.S. Foreign Relations Chair: John Stoner, University of Pittsburgh Race, Empire, and the Debate over the Labor Clauses of the Versailles Peace Treaty Elizabeth McKillen, University of Maine “Spearheads of Democracy” and the “Special Relationship”: The Histadrut, American Labor, and U.S.-Israeli Relations South of the Sahara, 1954 to 1960 Aaron Dowdall, University of Wisconsin-Madison The AFL-CIO’s Behind the Scenes Maneuvering against the Women’s Committee Yevette Richards-Jordan, George Mason University Comment: Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz
WELCOME RECEPTION: 5:45 – 7:00 PM, Studio C and Second Floor Reception Area All registrants are invited to join us for light hors d’oeuvres and drinks. Beer, wine and soft drinks will be available. Each registrant will receive two drink tickets; bar will be on a cash basis thereafter.
PLENARY SESSION: 7:00 – 9:00 PM, Salon 4 America and the World – the World and America: Writing American Diplomatic History in the Longue Durée Chair: George C. Herring, University of Kentucky Discussants: John W. Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jay Sexton, Oxford University Kristin L. Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Paul A. Kramer, Vanderbilt University Response: Erez Manela, Harvard University Anne L. Foster, Indiana State University
FRIDAY, 21 JUNE 2013 Job Search Workshop: 7:00 – 9:00 AM, Salon 4 Diplomatic History Editorial Board Meeting: 7:30 – 9:00 AM, Boardroom Registration: 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM, Second Floor Reception Area Book Exhibit: 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM, Second Floor Reception Area
Session III: 9:00 – 11:00 AM (Panels 21-32)
Panel 21: Roundtable: The Global Links and Legacies of the New Deal: The Limits of Decentering the United States in Global History Chair: David Ekbladh, Tufts University Vincent Lagendijk, Maastricht University Lisa McGirr, Harvard University Kiran Klaus Patel, Maastricht University
Panel 22: Jobs for the Ph.D. Outside Academia Chair: Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, U.S. Naval War College Public History Jason H. Gart, History Associates Journalism Luke Nichter, Texas A&M University – Central Texas Think Tanks Jim Carafano, The Heritage Foundation Federal Government History Sarandis (Randy) Papadopoulos, U.S. Navy Foreign Service William Morgan, U.S. Marine Corps Command & Staff College Historical Editing Benjamin Huggins, The Papers of George Washington Museums Steve Luckert, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Panel 23: The 1970s: A Decade of Arms Control, Disarmament and Nuclear Non Proliferation Chair: Erin Mahan, Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense The United Nations and Non-Proliferation, 1955-1981 Mervyn O’Driscoll, University College Cork SALT I: The European Dimension Ralph Dietl, Queen’s University Belfast MBFR: A Strategic Analysis Christoph Bluth, University of Leeds Against the Tide: Arms Control Critics and the Emergence of a Conservative Counterculture, 1969-1980 Ronald Granieri, Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense Comment: William Burr, National Security Archive and George Washington University
Panel 24: Spain and the Global World, 1870-1930: Defying Conventional Narratives of U.S.-Spain Relations Chair: Brooke L. Blower, Boston University Diplomatic Backing for the American Invaders? U.S. Economic expansión in Spain, 1870-1900 Andrés Sánchez Padilla, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Negotiating Modernity: Singer in Spain, 1890-1915 Paula de la Cruz, Florida International University Between Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia: Spanish Immigrants in the United States and the Legacy of Empire Ana María Varela-Lago, Northern Arizona University Comment: José A. Montero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Panel 25: The “Painful Moment”: The United States and Rhodesia, 1975-77 Chair: Sue Onslow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London Good Strategy or Good Timing? Jimmy Carter’s Rhodesian Diplomacy Will Bishop, Vanderbilt University “They must get on and play the hand accordingly”: Pretoria and the Kissinger Initiatives on Southern Africa Jamie Miller, University of Cambridge and Yale University Ripe for Settlement? Kissinger’s Attempted Mediation of the Rhodesian Conflict Carl Watts, University of Michigan and University of Southampton Comment: Timothy Scarnecchia, Kent State University
Panel 26: Reciprocal Impact: Inter-American Capitalisms and U.S. Empire in the 20th Century Chair: Cyrus Veeser, Bentley University Dark Finance & Odious Debt: The Chase Manhattan Bank in Cuba, 1926-1935 Peter James Hudson, Vanderbilt University “The Crowning of Injustice”: Price Politics and the Passing of the “Century of the Common Man” in Chile Joshua Frens-String, New York University Cold War Drug Wars: Cuba & the United States Suzanna Reiss, University of Hawai`i Mānoa Sovereignty, Property Rights, and (Inter)Nationalism: Mexico Crashes Versailles Christy Thornton, New York University Comment: Cyrus Veeser
Panel 27: The Cold War in Southeast Asia and American Power Chair: Ronald Spector, George Washington University The MCP, the MCA, and Chinese “Nationalist Internationalism” in the Cold War World Anna Belogurova, Nanyang Technological University Military Concerns and Popular Music: American Interests and Influence in Singapore, 1967-1973 Jason Lim, University of Wollongong Exploiting the Cold War: Southeast Asia and American Power S.R. Joey Long, Nanyang Technological University The Vietnamese Invasion of Kampuchea (December 1978) and the Sino-Vietnamese War (February 1979): An International-History Perspective Ang Cheng Guan, Nanyang Technological University Comment: Doug MacDonald, Colgate University
Panel 28: Ending the Cold War in Central Europe Chair: Aviel Roshwald, Georgetown University The Demise of the Soviet Bloc Mark Kramer, Harvard University “Protecting the Right Flank”: Presidents Reagan & Bush and the End of the Cold War Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans New Perspectives from Soviet-Era Documents on Austrian Cold War Neutrality and Its Changing Nature in the 1980s Peter Ruggenthaler, Boltzmann-Institute for Research on War Consequences, Graz Mrs. Thatcher and German Unification Klaus Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Comment: Berthold Molden, University of New Orleans
Panel 29: Asian-American Transnationalism and Politics: The First Half of the Twentieth Century Chair: Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University A Tale of Two Leagues: Entwining the Fight for Indian Immigration and Independence during World War II Jane Hong, Harvard University Towards a Transnational History of Japanese Internment Nick Kapur, Harvard University The Transnational Path to Nationalist Revolution: The Circle of Yuan Shikai Steffen Rimner, Harvard University Comment: Naoko Shibusawa
Panel 30: Interrogating the Limits of Possibility: Race and Gender at the United Nations, 1946-1956 Chair: Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign India’s Case Against South Africa: Print Culture and the Rhetoric of Possibility at the UN General Assembly Julie Laut, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Soviet Strategies at the UN: The Colonized Woman and Cold War Politics, 1946-1956 Giusi Russo, State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton “We have a definitive stake and a definite contribution to make”: African American Women, the United Nations and the Making of the Post-World War II World Julie Gallagher, Penn State Brandywine Comment: Karen Garner, State University of New York (SUNY) Empire State College
Panel 31: Evangelical Projections Chair: Seth Jacobs, Boston College Accidental Diplomats: The Influence of American Evangelical Missionaries on US Relations with the Congo during the Early Cold War, 1959-1963 Philip Dow, University of Cambridge To Support a “Brother in Christ”: Evangelical Groups and U.S.-Guatemalan Relations during the Ríos Montt Regime Lauren Turek, University of Virginia Witness to Apartheid Melani McAlister, George Washington University Gospel Glasnost: Billy Graham, the State Department, and the Politics of Iron Curtain Evangelization Benjamin Brandenburg, Temple University Comment: Andrew Preston, Clare College, University of Cambridge
Panel 32: The Place of Space in U.S. Foreign Relations Chair: Martin Collins, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution The Space Race and American Public Diplomacy Teasel Muir-Harmony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Soviet-American Collaboration in Weather Satellites: Cold War Ideology and Scientific Practice Angelina Long Callahan, Naval Research Laboratory NASA as an Instrument of Nonproliferation John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology
LUNCHEON: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Salon 4 Pre-registration and tickets required. The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago SHAFR President
Session IV: 1:00 – 3:00 PM (Panels 33-44)
Panel 33: Roundtable: Where is SHAFR Headed? Assessing Our Advances in Diversity Petra Goedde, Temple University Kelly Shannon, University of Alaska Anchorage Katherine Sibley, St. Joseph’s University
Panel 34: The Origins of the Iraq War: A Ten Year Retrospective on the Knowns and the Unknowns Chair: Melvyn Leffler, University of Virginia Seth Center, U.S. Department of State Charles Duelfer, UNSCOM J. Scott Norwood, Naval Postgraduate School David Palkki, National Defense University
Panel 35: Challenges to the American Nuclear Order SHAFR GLOBAL SCHOLARS GRANT PANEL Panelists have been awarded funding by the Membership and Program Committees as part of the SHAFR Global Scholars Initiative. Chair: Leopoldo Nuti, University of Rome 3 Carter’s Dilemma: South Africa’s Nuclear Crises, 1977-1979 Lucky Asuelime and Raquel Adekoye, University of KwaZulu-Natal The Politics of the Atom: United States and the Odyssey of the Franco-Indian Nuclear Dissidence, 1950-1974 Jayita Sarkar, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies The Nixon Administration and the Coming into Force of the NPT Liu Lei, Nanjing University A Flash in the Pan: Romania and the NPT, 1968-1975 Eliza Gheorghe, University of Mainz Comment: Joseph F. Pilat, National Security Office, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Panel 36: The Problems and Possibilities of Immigration in American Foreign Relations Chair: Ralph B. Levering, Davidson College “Locking the Stable Door After the Horse is Stolen:” American Debates over Efforts to Restrict Anarchist Immigration, 1890-1903 Alexander P. Noonan, Boston College The United States’ Immigration Experience in the Australian Imagination, 1901-1924 David Atkinson, Purdue University Sport, Immigration, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1956-1970 Anne Blaschke, Bridgewater State University Comment: Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Panel 37: U.S. “Air Power” during World War II and the Early Cold War: The Voice of America and a Precursor Chair: Robert Waters, Ohio Northern University Domestic Influences on India’s Foreign Policy: The VOA Controversy, 1962-1963 Eric D. Pullin, Carthage College Broadcasting by the Voice of America (VOA) to Czechoslovakia during the 1940s and 1950s Jan Koura, Charles University World War II Thai Language Broadcasts: Precursor to the U.S. Cold War Propaganda Program in Thailand Bruce Reynolds, San Jose State University Comment: Michael Krysko, Kansas State University
Panel 38: Carter, Reagan and the Middle East Chair: Paul Chamberlin, University of Kentucky “Joining the Jackals:” Andy Young, the Middle East and Carter’s Failed Demarche to World Opinion Sean Byrnes, Emory University Jimmy and the Jets: Capitol Hill Fight over the Carter Administration’s 1978 Middle East Warplanes Package Sale Daniel Strieff, London School of Economics Neoconservatives Rising: Reagan’s Cold War in the Middle East, 1980-1982 Seth Anziska, Columbia University Taking the Battle Abroad: The Lebanese Pursuit of American Support during the Lebanese Civil War Laila Ballout, Northwestern University Comment: William Quandt, University of Virginia
Panel 39: Diplomacy and the Politics of U.S-Latin American Cultural Exchange, 1900-1945 Chair: Stephen G. Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas Grassroots Diplomacy: The OCIAA and Philanthropic Diplomacy in Latin America during World War II Monica Rankin, University of Texas at Dallas The Origins of Civic Pan Americanism: John Barrett and the Pan American Society Dina Berger, Loyola University Chicago “Factories that Forge the Soul”: Student Exchange and U.S-Latin American Relations, 1933-1945 Julie Irene Prieto, Stanford University Comment: Dennis Merrill, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Panel 40: The Twentieth Anniversary of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations: What Next? Chair: Charles Hayford, Independent Scholar, Emeritus, Past Editor, JAEAR Michael Barnhart, SUNY, Stony Brook, Founding Editor, JAEAR Franklin Ng, California State, Fresno, Past Editor, JAEAR T. Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia, Past Editor, JAEAR James Matray, California State, Chico, Editor, JAEAR Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University, Associate Editor, JAEAR Andrew Rotter, Colgate University
Panel 41: The Cold War Through Third World Eyes: Third World Understandings of and Policy in the Cold War Chair: Joseph Andy Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Containing Their Own Backyard: Dictators and Counterrevolutionary Exiles in the Early “Cold” War in Central America and the Caribbean, 1944-1954 Aaron Moulton, University of Arkansas Sovereignty and Unity in the Face of Imperialist Distraction: Arab Nationalists and the Cold War in the 1950s R. Thomas Bobal, Georgia State University A Luta Continua: Portuguese Africa and American Anti-colonialism Joseph Parrott, University of Texas at Austin Comment: Chris Dietrich, Fordham University
Panel 42: Developing Alternatives: New Perspectives on Development Thought and Practice during the Early Cold War Era Chair: Thomas Robertson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute From Small to Big: The Politics of Scale in Twentieth Century U.S. Development Policy Stephen Macekura, University of Virginia The Rinderpest Campaign and Interspecies Internationalism Amanda McVety, Miami University Developing the Village in Order to Save It: Development Ideas and Counterinsurgency Warfare in South Vietnam, 1950-1975 Edward Miller, Dartmouth College Comment: Thomas Robertson
Panel 43: Challenging Government: The Contributions of Anna Kasten Nelson Chair: Richard Immerman, Temple University, and Chair of the Historical Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of State On the area of national security research: I. M. Destler, University of Maryland On the area of women in foreign policy: Emily S. Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine On the area of access to archives: Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Chair, Working Group on Access, International Council on Archives Overview and reflections: Robert L. Beisner, American University
Panel 44: Teaching America to the World and the World to America Sponsored by the SHAFR Teaching Committee Chair: Chester Pach, Ohio University Traveling to Vietnam with Students Jessica Chapman, Williams College Traveling to Germany with Students; Serving as Mary Ball Washington Professor at University College Dublin Kenneth Osgood, Colorado School of Mines Teaching U.S. History in the UK; Distance Teaching and Learning J. Simon Rofe, SOAS University of London Teaching U.S. Foreign Relations in Ireland Sandra Scanlon, University College Dublin
BREAK: 3:00 – 3:30 PM Coffee and light refreshments served in the reception area. Please note that the Book Exhibit and Registration Desk will close at 3:30 PM today.
Session V: 3:30 – 5:30 PM (Panels 45-51) Please note that some panels during this session are located on the first floor of the adjoining Marriott Residence Inn. You can reach the Residence Inn through a door at the end of the hallway past Studio D and Studio E. Go downstairs to the first floor for Potomac 1 and Potomac 2.
Panel 45: Security versus Transparency as Exemplified Through the History of the “Foreign Relations of the United States” Series Chair: William B. McAllister, Office of the Historian, Department of State & Georgetown University Joshua Botts, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia Robert E. Jervis, Columbia University Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University School of Law Robert McMahon, Ohio State University
Panel 46: Questioning the NPT: The Evolution of the U.S. Nuclear Policy and the Middle East from the Nixon Administration to the End of the Cold War Chair: Roland Popp: Center for Security Studies, ETH – Zurich Presidential Preference: Determining the Place for the NPT in American Policy Megan Reiss, University of Texas at Austin Twin Pillars Policy and Non-proliferation: The United States and the FRG-Iran Nuclear Agreement Vittorio Felci, University of Szeged Present Dangers: The Debate on Deterrence and Proliferation Inside the First Reagan Administration Giordana Pulcini, University of Roma Tre U.S. Deterrence Performances in the Gulf War in Light of New Iraqi Documents Avner Golov, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Comment: Francis J. Gavin, University of Texas at Austin
Panel 47: Crafting a New World Order: The Foreign Policy of the George H.W. Bush Administration Chair: Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist University Presidential Peacemaking: President George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War, 1989-91 J. Simon Rofe, University of London War on the Line: Telephone Diplomacy and the Building and Maintenance of the Desert Storm Coalition Jeffrey Crean, Texas A&M University Dancing with the (Media) Stars: How the Bush White House Courted and Competed with the Press over the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas at Austin How the U.S. Shaped the Security Council Sanctions on Iraq, 1990-1991 Joy Gordon, Fairfield University Comment: David F. Schmitz, Whitman College
Panel 48: Cold War Connections and World Communities in the 1960s and 1970s Chair: Pierre Journoud, Cornell University Breaking the Gavel: The Cold War and the Historic U.N. General Assembly 15th Session, September 1960 Lise Namikas, Louisiana State University “Nkrumah Promised Mountains and Marvels”: Congo, Algeria, and the Battle for Africa in the Early 1960s Jeffrey Byrne, University of British Columbia Diplomacy and Third World Solidarities: 20 Years of Zimbabwean Cold War Diplomatic Maneuvering, 1963-1983 Tim Scarnecchia, Kent State University Firing Andrew Young: Race and the Cold War in August 1979 Nancy Mitchell, North Carolina State University Comment: Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin
Panel 49: Encounters: American Occupation Policy and Diplomacy in Postwar Germany Chair: Heather Dichter, Ithaca College Equality Before Efficiency: American Antitrust Law and European Integration Ben Brady, University of Virginia Punishment or Persuasion?: The American Occupation of Germany and the Experiment of Denazification, 1945-1949 W. Mikkel Dack, University of Calgary American Suppliers: Informal Diplomacy in the Illicit Postwar German Economy Mike Fasulo, Texas A & M University The Seeds of Totalitarianism: American Voluntary Agencies and the German Family in U.S.-Occupied Germany Sara Fieldston, Yale University Comment: Heather Dichter
Panel 50: The Politics of Human Rights and Humanitarianism Chair: Kristin L. Ahlberg, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Human Rights in the United Nations: A Reappraisal Amy Sayward, Middle Tennessee State University The International Politics of Welfare: Egypt, India and U.S. Food Aid, 1940s-1950s Samantha Iyer, University of California, Berkeley The “Irish Question” Redux: The Ulster Troubles as an Anglo-American Human Rights Problem Joseph Renouard, The Citadel Comment: Kristin L. Ahlberg
Panel 51: Culture and American-European-Cuban Connections during the Cold War Chair: Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University Building Bridges Across the Atlantic: The European Union Visitors Program: A Case Study for Public Diplomacy and the Transatlantic Relationship in the Seventies Alessandra Bitumi, University of Bologna Return: U.S.-Soviet-Cuban Dance Diplomacy at the Close of the Cold War Lauren Erin Brown, Marymount Manhattan College “Very Correct Adversaries”: Ice Hockey and Czechoslovak-U.S. Relations John Soares, University of Notre Dame Comment: Nicholas Cull, University of Southern California
SOCIAL EVENT: 7:00 – 11:00 PM Dinner dance at Top of the Town in Alexandria. Pre-registration and tickets required. See ad in this program for more information. Space is limited so plan ahead!
SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2013 Registration: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Second Floor Reception Area Book Exhibit: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Second Floor Reception Area Breakfast Forum: 8:00 – 9:00 AM, Salon 4 The Crisis in Public Higher Education: A SHAFR Response Please join us for a broad discussion on the crisis in public higher education. Light breakfast refreshments will be served. Moderator: Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota Duluth Comments: Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles Julie Laut, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University Bevan Sewell, University of Nottingham
Session VI: 9:00 – 11:00 AM (Panels 52-63)
Panel 52: Why Do Emotions Matter in International History? Chair: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut The Honour Game: Pride and Humiliation in Europe’s 1914 July Crisis Ute Frevert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Carter and Sadat: Politics, Friendship, and Peace Tizoc Chavez, Vanderbilt University The Trauma of Vietnam and the Rise of Human Rights Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne Comment: Frank Costigliola
Panel 53: Roundtable: The Test Ban Treaty 50 Years On: New Perspectives on Nuclear Arms Control and the Cold War Chair: David Holloway, Stanford University James Goodby, Hoover Institution and Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution Benjamin Greene, Bowling Green State University Toshihiro Higuchi, University of Wisconsin-Madison Paul Rubinson, Bridgewater State University John R. Walker, Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Panel 54: Independence in the International Realm: From the Revolution to the Fisheries Dispute of 1852 Chair: J.C.A. Stagg, University of Virginia The Law of Nations in John Jay’s Mission to Spain Benjamin Lyons, Columbia University A “Necessary” War: John Adams and the War of 1812 Rhonda Barlow, University of Virginia The Not-So-Special Relationship: The United States, Great Britain, and the Fisheries Dispute of 1852 Thomas Blake Earle, Rice University “America’s most important colonial possession”: The American Invasion of the British World, 1867-1914 Stephen Tuffnell, University of Oxford Comment:
Panel 55: The Roots of a Republican Postwar Foreign Policy, 1945-1955 Chair: Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University Post-war Conservative Visions of World Order: The Significance of Robert Taft’s Foreign Policy for Americans Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University The American Occupations of Germany and Japan as the First Lessons in Building the New Global Economic Order Grant Madsen, Brigham Young University Harold Stassen and the U.S. Government’s University Contracts Abroad Program in the 1950s Ethan Schrum, University of Virginia Comment: Andrew Johns, Brigham Young University
Panel 56: Domestic Politics and Diplomacy: U.S. Relations with Central America and the Caribbean during the Late Cold War Chair: Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University A Failure of Dialogue: U.S. Policy toward Cuba and the Cuban American Community, 1977-1980 Hideaki Kami, Ohio State University & University of Tokyo Citizen Diplomacy and Transnational Politics in the Contra War Roger Peace, Tallahassee Community College Creating a Just Cause: Noriega, Drugs, and Justifying Intervention in Post-Cold War Latin America Aileen Teague, Vanderbilt University Comment: Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma
Panel 57: “Peoples Quite Apart”: Americans in South Vietnam & South Vietnamese in America during the Second Indochina War Chair: George Herring, University of Kentucky Between the Paris of the Orient and Ho Chi Minh City: Imaginings and Reportage in Wartime Saigon, 1954-1975 Jeffrey A. Keith, Warren Wilson College American Intervention and South Vietnamese Nationalism in Duyên Anh’s Giặc Ô kê (The Okay Invaders) and Mơ thành người Quang Trung (Aspire to be Quang Trung) Nu-Anh Tran, University of California, Berkeley South Vietnamese in the U.S. against U.S. policy in Vietnam: Unintended Consequences of a U.S. Nation-State Building Initiative Nguyet Nguyen, American University Comment: John Prados, National Security Archive
Panel 58: The Cold War After Stalin: New International Evidence Chair: Mark Kramer, Harvard University Formulating a “Peace Zone”: The Soviet Union and China’s Foreign Policy During the 1950s Tao Wang, Yale University Carving A Diplomatic Niche? Examining the April 1956 Soviet Visit to Britain as a Missed Opportunity for Cold War De-escalation Simon Miles, University of Texas at Austin Discrimination through Registration: International Human Rights and the Repression of the Crimean Tatars during De-Stalinization Andrew Straw, University of Texas at Austin Comment: Timothy Naftali, The New America Foundation
Panel 59: Neoliberalism and Third World Politics in the late Cold War Chair: David Engerman, Brandeis University The Poverty Curtain: Two Critiques of Neoliberal Diplomacy Chris Dietrich, Fordham University A “Program for Survival”: The Brandt Commission and Transnational Development Networking in the 1970s Victor Nemchenok, University of Virginia From Extraterritoriality to Special Economic Zones: The Decline of Anti-Imperialism and the Reconstruction of Global Capital Markets Chris Miller, Yale University Comment: Amy Offner, University of Pennsylvania
Panel 60: Humanitarian Diplomacy in the World War I Era Chair: Julia F. Irwin, University of South Florida A New Benevolent Empire: Immigration and War Relief at the American Century’s Dawn Stephen R. Porter, University of Cincinnati Diplomacy of Neutrality: Politics of American Humanitarian Relief in Ottoman Beirut, 1914-1918 Melanie Schulze Tanielian, University of Michigan The Warfare of Relief: How the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society Reached Jewish War Sufferers during World War I Jaclyn Granick, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Comment: Julia F. Irwin
Panel 61: The American Way of Law in War from Korea to Vietnam Chair: Sarah Snyder, University College London Bombing Civilians after World War II: The Persistence of Norms against Targeting Civilians in the Korean War Sahr Conway-Lanz, Yale University Library Crisis Precedes Transformation: International Law and U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965 Brian Cuddy, Cornell University The Conviction of William Calley: American Public Opinion and International Rules of War Christine Lamberson, Angelo State University Comment: Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University School of Law
Panel 62: African Americans, Diplomacy, and International Relations Chair: Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University “The Importantly Dual Task”: Flemmie Kittrell, Edith Sampson, and Dorothy Ferebee’s Travels for the U.S. State Department Brandy S. Thomas, Ohio State University Italy, African-American Internationalism and Revolutionary Cuba, 1960s and 1970s Alberto Benvenuti, University of Florence Congressional Leadership and the U.S. Approach to African Affairs: Charles C. Diggs Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Race Diplomacy: African Americans and the Racial Roots of American Cultural Diplomacy Athan Biss, University of Wisconsin-Madison Comment: Adriane Lentz-Smith
Panel 63: Borders, Camps, and Streets: Debating Citizenship and Foreign Policy Chair: Lorena Oropeza; University of California, Davis Stand Up and Be Counted: Citizenship, Masculinity and Japanese American Incarceration Terumi Rafferty-Osaki, American University Do Not Enter (Unless We Want your Labor): Negotiating Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border Mary E. Mendoza, University of California, Davis The Right to Speak: Citizenship, Dissent, and Nixon’s Vietnam War Sarah Thelen, American University Holocaust Angst: The Federal Republic of Germany and Holocaust Memory in the United States Jacob S. Eder, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena SHAFR Global Scholars Grant Award Winner Panelist has been awarded funding by the Membership and Program Committees as part of the SHAFR Global Scholars Initiative. Comment: Lorena Oropeza
LUNCHEON: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Salon 4 Pre-registration and tickets required. Legacy vs. Access?: The Challenges of Researching Presidential History Timothy J. Naftali, National Security Studies Program, New America Foundation Former Director, Nixon Presidential Library
Session VII: 1:00-3:00 PM (Panels 64-74)
Panel 64: Roundtable: The 35th Anniversary of Orientalism and Edward Said’s Legacy on U.S. Diplomatic History Chair: Doug Little, Clark University Waleed Hazbun, American University of Beirut Maurice Jr. Labelle, University of Saskatchewan Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State University John Munro, St. Mary’s University
Panel 65: Reimagining the Monroe Doctrine Chair: Serge Richard, Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III) The Greek War of Independence, the Monroe Doctrine and the Birth of the Clash of Civilizations Theory Karine Walther, Georgetown School of Foreign Service – Qatar “Careful not to adopt or endorse all the opinions of President Washington”: Washington’s Farewell Address, Monroe’s Doctrine, and the Battle over Foreign Policy Ideals in the 1840s Jeffrey Malanson, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Old Colossus, New Colossus: Patterns of Slavery Interests in American Civil-War Era Hegemony Steven Heath Mitton, Utah State University Comment: Jay Sexton, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University
Panel 66: Capturing the Second Sun: Atoms for Peace in the Global Context Chair: Peter Kuznick, American University Blessing of Atomic Energy: The Japanese Embrace of Atoms for Peace as a Resource of U.S. Public Diplomacy Yuka Tsuchiya, Ehime University Nukes Down Under: Turning Atoms for Peace into Weapons for War Mick Broaderick, Murdoch University The Atoms for Peace Exhibition in Hiroshima Ran Zwigenberg, City University of New York For the Good of Mankind: American Atomic Age Diplomacy in the Republic of the Marshall Islands Jessica A. Schwartz, Columbia University Comment: Peter Kuznick
Panel 67: Roundtable: Teaching Statesmanship to Statesmen Chair: Aaron O’Connell, United States Naval Academy Charles Edel, United States Naval War College Francis Gavin, University of Texas at Austin Helen Anderson, Naval Postgraduate School Mary Habeck, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist University
Panel 68: U.S. Conservatives in the Global Cold War: The American Right and the World, 1939-1972 Chair: T. Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia America’s Leading Anti-“Consensus” Cold Warrior: Herbert Hoover and Cold War America’s Rise in the World, 1939-1965 Kevin Y. Kim, Stanford University Defending the Empire: Conservatives Supporting the Vietnam War Seth Offenbach, Bronx Community College Searching for the Center: Youth Politics and Richard Nixon’s Foreign Policy, 1968-1972 Seth Blumenthal, Boston University
Panel 69: America and Africa: The Unconventional Diplomacy of the U.S. in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1949-1963 Comment: Jason Parker, Texas A&M University American Race Relations & Sub-Saharan Africa: Truman’s Fourth Point and the Technical Cooperation Administration, 1949-1953 Hannah Higgin, University of Cambridge The Gospel of Stability: The Eisenhower Presidency, Cultural Assistance and Education in Africa and the Third World, 1953-1961 Frank Gerits, European University Institute Mali: A Distant Front in the Soviet-American Cold War and the Frontline of the Franco-American Cold War Philip Muehlenbeck, George Washington University Kennedy, Teachers and the Peace Corps in East Africa, 1961-1963 Timothy A. Nicholson, State University of New York at Delhi Comment: Jason Parker
Panel 70: New Looks on U.S.-South Vietnamese Relations: Politics, Society, and Culture in the Vietnam War Chair: Robert Brigham, Vassar College “These Goodies Haunt Your Mind”: Consumer Culture and Resistance to American Nation-Building in South Vietnam, 1963-1975 Helen Pho, University of Texas, Austin The Brothel Debate: American Policy and the Making of Love and War in Vietnam Amanda Boczar, University of Kentucky Winning “a bit too well”: Nixon, Thieu, and the 1971 South Vietnamese Presidential Elections Sean Fear, Cornell University Comment: Jessica Chapman, Williams College
Panel 71: Trouble in the Homeland: Central & East European Migrants and U.S. Foreign Policy Chair: Berthold Molden, University of Vienna & University of New Orleans Transatlantic Perspectives on the “Slovak Question,” 1914 to 1948 Michael Cude, University of Colorado-Boulder Imagined and Contested: Brotherhood, Unity, and the “Yugoslavia Idea” in Cold War America Louie Milojevic, American University “Captive Nations”: A Propaganda Concept or a Political Lobby? Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk & State University of New York at Buffalo Comment: Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
Panel 72: Human Rights in the Long 1960s Chair: William I. Hitchcock, University of Virginia “At Home and Around the World”: Kennedy’s Commitment to Human Rights Sarah B. Snyder, University College London The Breakthrough Decade? International Human Rights Diplomacy and Law in the 1960s Steven Jensen, University of Copenhagen & Danish Institute for Human Rights Rights, Decolonization, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan Ryan M. Irwin, University at Albany-SUNY Comment: Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne
Panel 73: Sovereignty Diffused, Power Transformed? International Relations in the 1970s Chair: Thomas “Tim” Borstelmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Oil and Global Power in the 1970s Victor McFarland, Yale University Human Rights, Permeability, and Peace in the 1970s Michael Morgan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Managing Interdependence, Making Globalization? Daniel Sargent, University of California, Berkeley Petrodollar Promise and Peril: The Middle East Economy and Changing American Conceptions of Power in the 1970s David Wight, University of California, Irvine Comment: Thomas “Tim” Borstelmann
Panel 74: Global Midwest: Writing the American Heartland into U.S. Foreign Relations Chair: Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles The Routes of the Modern American Empire: Reconsidering William Appleman Williams through the Case of the Berkshire Hog Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Clevelander Quits U.S. for Africa”: Garveyism and the History of the Diasporic Midwest Erik S. McDuffie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nationwide is on Your Side in Delhi: Capitalism and Cooperation in International Development during the Cold War Nicole Sackley, University of Richmond Comment: Christopher Endy
BREAK: 3:00-3:30 PM Coffee and light refreshments served in the reception area.
Session VIII: 3:30 – 5:30 PM (Panels 75-84)
Panel 75: Rivalry and Challenges on the Edges of Empire Chair: James Hershberg, George Washington University The Limits of Cooperation: Anglo-American Relations in the Arabian Peninsula in the 1960s Helene von Bismarck, Independent Scholar P.R. on the Periphery: Cold War Public Diplomacy Rivalries during the Imperial Transition Jason Parker, Texas A&M University Anglo-American Wartime Competition in Latin America Revisited: Global Communications, Signals Intelligence and World War II Jonathan Reed Winkler, Wright State University Comment: Steven Galpern, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Panel 76: Releasing State Secrets: A Roundtable Discussion on the Department of State’s Declassification Program Chair: William P. Fischer, Chief, Systematic Review Program, U.S. Department of State Jeff Charlston, Chief, Paper Review Branch, Systematic Review Program, U.S. Department of State Carl Ashley, Chief, Declassification and Publishing Division, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Panel 77: Roundtable: The Problem of Sovereignty and U.S. Foreign Relations Chair: Brad Simpson, Princeton University Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University Rebecca Herman, University of California, Berkeley
Panel 78: Manly Men and Unmanly Rogues: Diplomatic Dilemmas of the Early Republic Chair: Robert Allison, Suffolk University, From Christiansted to Cap-Français: Edward Stevens and U.S. Diplomacy in Saint-Domingue Ronald Angelo Johnson, Texas State University The Quasi-War, Print Publicity, and the Politics of Slavery in the Early Republic Wendy Helen Wong, Temple University An Earlier Affair of the Petticoat: A U.S. Diplomatic Incident in the Barbary Shannon Duffy, Texas State University Comment: Robert Allison
Panel 79: The Origins of Modern American Counter-Terrorism Chair: Timothy Naftali, New America Foundation The Pinkerton National Detective Agency Katherine Unterman, Texas A&M University The FBI’s White Slave Division, 1910-1917 Jessica Pliley, Texas State University, San Marcos International Anarchist Terrorism, 1898-1904 Mary Barton, University of Virginia Comment: Hal Brands, Duke University
Panel 80: The U.S. & the Arab World Chair: Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara U.S. Foreign Policy towards North Africa during the Cold War, 1954-1963: From Eisenhower to Kennedy Mohieddine Hadhri ,Tunis University The Origins of Central Command and Its Impact on America’s Relationship with the Middle East Nathan Packard, Georgetown University Rethinking “Armed Minorities”: How Minority Problems and Ethnic Politics Shaped the Emergence of the Cold War in the Near East James Helicke, Ohio State University The Emergence of the “Partnership for the 21st Century” between Washington and Ankara Ekavi Athanassopoulou, University of Athens Comment: Craig Daigle, City College
Panel 81: New Transnational Narratives on the Latin American Cold War Chair: William Michael Schmidli, Bucknell University The Transnational Latin American Origins of U.S. Human Rights Politics in the 1970s Patrick William Kelly, University of Chicago Transnational Activists as U.S. Foreign Policy Makers in the Salvadoran Cold War, 1981-1992 Andrea Onate, Princeton University National Security, Individual Rights, and the Transnational Development of U.S. and Argentine Law in the 1970s Lynsay Brooke, University of California, Berkeley Comment: William Michael Schmidli
Panel 82: Drugs, Dictators, Spies, and Unintended Consequences: The United States and Southeast Asia Chair: E. Shawn McHale, George Washington University The Journey from 1909 to 1931: Southeast Asia and U.S. Efforts to Combat Opium Anne L. Foster, Indiana State University The United States and Burma’s Ne Win, 1948-1975 Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University Inciting Violence: U.S. Covert Operations in 1964-1965 Indonesia Laura Iandola, Northern Illinois University Comment: David L. Anderson, California State University, Monterey Bay
Panel 83: Looking at the World: Non-State Conceptions of Internationalism in the 1930s-1950s Chair: Kathleen Burk, University College London Mars Attacks?: Radio Waves, a Shrinking Earth, and International Politics in a “Troublesome World” David Ekbladh, Tufts University American Foundations and the Global Foreign Affairs Institute Network, 1930s-1950s Katharina Rietzler, Cambridge University The Christian Commonwealth across the Atlantic: John Foster Dulles, Lionel Curtis, Arnold Toynbee, and the Problem of Global Peace Bevan Sewell, University of Nottingham The American Bar Association, Human Rights and the Post-War International Order Hanne Hagtvedt Vik, University of Oslo Comment: Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester
Panel 84: The Multiplicity of Borders: Intersections of Gender, Race, and the Body in the Borders of the U.S. Empire Chair: Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico “Small Disease-Ringed Circles”: The Medicalization of the U.S./Canadian Border, 1890-1948 Christine Peralta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Filipina Imperial Crossings: Negotiating Migration and Identity across Racialized and Gendered Borders, 1903 to 1935 Genevieve Clutario, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The “Redemption” of Mexico: Latino Liberals and Anglo Annexationists in the 1860s Teresa Van Hoy, St. Mary’s University Comment: Marisa Belausteguigoitia |