OFFSITE EVENT: Negotiating Independence: New Directions in the History of...
This conference will be held OFFSITE at Trinity College, Cambridge The Centre of South Asian Studies at the Univeristy of Cambridge in collaboration with LSE Ideas is pleased to announce"Negotiating...
View ArticleWhy Did Russia Let the Republics Go? Revisiting the Fall of the USSR
Few people expected the USSR to fall apart as it did, without a major bloodshed. Serhii Plokhii attempts to answer the question of why Russia of Boris Yeltsin did not follow into the footsteps of...
View ArticleThe Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s.Directions: Directions to the Wilson Center
View ArticleThe 1953 Coup 60 Years On: A Symposium
August marks the 60th anniversary of the coup against Mohammad Mosaddeq, one of the pivotal events of modern Iranian – and Middle Eastern – history. The coup and the conditions surrounding it continue...
View ArticleHanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi...
View ArticleBrothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea
Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents the first comprehensive history of this misunderstood...
View ArticleTyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1990
To much of the world, North Korea is an impenetrable mystery, its inner workings unknown and its actions toward the outside unpredictable and frequently provocative. Tyranny of the Weak reveals for the...
View ArticleEnlarging the European Union: Book Discussion
The first enlargement was one of the most divisive and politically charged events in the history of the present-day European Union. French opposition to British membership meant that London had to wait...
View ArticleMore than Just a Scourge: General de Gaulle and the Cold War
Washington History SeminarHistorical Perspectives on International and National Affairs "More than Just a Scourge:General de Gaulle and the Cold War"Garret MartinEUROPEAN INSTITUTE and AMERICAN...
View ArticleWhy Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience...
Martin K. Dimitrov, Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University and editor of Why Communism Did Not Collapse, will speak on the puzzling durability of communist autocracies in Eastern...
View ArticleLatin America Encounters Nelson Rockefeller: Imagining the Gringo Patrón in 1969
Washington History SeminarHistorical Perspectives on International and National Affairs "Latin America Encounters Nelson Rockefeller:Imagining the Gringo Patrón in 1969"Ernesto CapelloMACALESTER...
View ArticleNew Approaches to Trans-Atlantic Relations in the Early Cold War
New Approaches to Trans-Atlantic Relationsin the Early Cold War6 January 2014, 12:30-2:00pmDirections: Directions to the Wilson Center
View ArticleSino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War: Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain
The Asia Program and the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States invite you to the second in a lecture series examining the responses of Asian nations to Chinese and U.S. interests in the...
View ArticleFrom Free Europe to Free Poland: Free Europe Committee in the Cold War
The Free Europe Committee (FEC, originally called the National Committee for a Free Europe) was a major instrument of American policy toward Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
View ArticleEastern Europe’s Most Difficult Transition: Public Health and Demographic...
Dr. Murray Feshbach was one of the first scholars to point out the devastating political and socio-economic effects of state communism’s failure to seriously address decaying public health and...
View ArticleThe AIDS Conspiracy: KGB and Stasi Disinformation
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, in cooperation with the Office of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records, presentsThe AIDS Conspiracy: KGB and Stasi...
View ArticleSino-Soviet Relations and the Dilemmas of Socialist Bloc Cooperation:...
Washington History SeminarHistorical Perspectives on International and National AffairsSino-Soviet Relations and the Dilemmas of Socialist Bloc Cooperation: Czechoslovaks in Shanghai, 1956-57Austin...
View ArticleForecasting Nuclear War: Stasi/KGB Intelligence Cooperation under Project RYaN
Forecasting Nuclear War:Stasi/KGB Intelligence Cooperation under Project RYaNBetween 1981 and 1989 the foreign intelligence branches of the Soviet KGB and the East German Ministry of State Security...
View ArticleMarshall Plan for the Mind; The CIA Covert Book Program during the Cold War
The Cold War International History Project in cooperation with the CIA Historical Programs Coordinator, invites you to join a panel of experts to discuss the origins, operation, and impact of the CIA’s...
View ArticleCodename Nikolaus
Codename Nikolaus:The Early Years of German-American Intelligence CooperationOn St Nicholas Day, December 6th 1947, Reinhard Gehlen began to organize a spy ring with the help of the US Army...
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