diplomatic history

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  There’s More to Castro Than Meets the Eye

  by Jonathan M. Hansen

  The revolutionary leader fought for and defended the very democratic ideals his government would later suspend.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  7/5/19
  

  How Fake News Could Lead to Real War

  by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

  We think of false information as a domestic problem. It’s much more dangerous than that.

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Origins of American Hegemony in East and Southeast Asia – And Why China Challenges It Today

  by Wen-Qing Ngoei

  Examining the origins of American hegemony in this region helps us better understand the history of the Cold War. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 4/2/19
  

  How the U.S.-Russian Relationship Went Bad

  by William J. Burns

  An American diplomat tells the inside story of Yeltsin, Putin, and opportunities lost.

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• 3/17/19
  

  The Death of Appeasement: the 80th Anniversary of the Invasion of Prague

  by Yoav J. Tenembaum

  March 1939 was the real turning point in international relations. September 1939 was to be the climax.

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• SOURCE: The National Interest
  10-13-13
  

  Lust: A Hidden Influence on Foreign Policy

  by Franz-Stefan Gady

  Did Metternich's love life affect his judgment at Vienna?

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  7-21-13
  

  Bernard von Bothmer: Review of Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman's "American Umpire" (Harvard, 2013)

  What role should America play on the world stage? What has been its exact role historically? Is our current position in the world a break from tradition -- or a continuum? Is America a force for good -- or is our international involvement the source of many of the world’s problems?

• SOURCE: Oxford University Press
  5-7-13
  

  Timothy J. Lynch: Is Diplomatic History Dying?

  Timothy J. Lynch is an Associate Professor, Director of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Melbourne. He is the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History. View the Melbourne launch of the Encyclopedia, or attend the American Military and Diplomatic History conference at Oregon State University on 7 May 2013.

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-19-13
  

  Erwin Harris, ad executive who seized Cuban assets, dies at 91

  Erwin Harris left behind a respectable record of achievement as an advertising executive, an estimable collection of Chinese antiquities (his lifelong hobby), a loving family and a remarkable if little-remembered role in the tortured history of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba in the early 1960s.Mr. Harris, a Yonkers-born World War II veteran who died in Miami on March 9 at 91, probably did not tip the scales of history. But from 1960 to 1961, armed with nothing more than a court order from a Florida judge and accompanied by local sheriff’s deputies, he scoured the East Coast confiscating Cuban government property — including the state airplane Fidel Castro parked in New York while on a visit.