THURSDAY, 21 JUNE
Registration: 9:00am – 5:00pm (Conference Lobby) Book Exhibit : 9:00am – 5:00pm (Promenade) Refreshments: 4:00pm – 4:30pm & 6:30pm – 7:00pm (Rotunda)
SHAFR Council Meeting: 8:00am – 11:30am (Franklin Room)
Luncheon: 11:30am – 1:30pm (Washingtonian II & III. Pre-registration required.)
Speaker: General Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
SESSION I (2:00pm – 4:00pm)
PANEL 1: The Foundations of Middle East Conflict and Cooperation: New Interpretations of the 1967 War (Lincoln Forum)
Chair: Salim Yaqub, University of California at Santa Barbara
Attack at Samu: A New Perspective on Hussein's Reconciliation with Nasser Clea Lutz Bunch, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
US-Israeli Strategic Relations, 1964-1967 Zach Levey, University of Haifa
Tactics of Peace: Reason and Caprice behind Nasser's Post-war Policies Noa Schonmann, University of Oxford
Commentator: Salim Yaqub
PANEL 2: Let the Games Begin: Politics and Culture in the Cold War (Grand Dominion I)
Chair: Christian G. Appy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Maltz Affair Revisited: How the American Communist Party Relinquished its Cultural Authority at the Dawn of the Cold War John Sbardellati, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lightning Joe Collins and the Role of the Postwar Foreign Service Jessica M. Chapman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Raising the Stakes: Poker, Chess and Richard Nixon's Madman Theory Reconsidered Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young University
Commentator: Mark P. Bradley, Northwestern University
PANEL 3: Salvador Allende & the Chilean Coup of 1973 (Grand Dominion II)
Chair: Christopher Jespersen, North Georgia State College and University
A Tradition of Modernization: The Alliance for Progress & the Culture of Social Rationalization in the U.S. Government & in Chile, 1961-1973 Gert Boel, Ghent University
A Different 9/11: Cuba and the Chilean Coup of 1973 Tanya Harmer, London School of Economics
Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende: Study of U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Coup in Chile Lubna Qureshi, University of California, Berkeley
Commentator: Michael Sullivan, Drexel University
PANEL 4: Re-Examining the Anglo- American Relationship in the Twenty-First Century (Grand Dominion III)
Chair: Fraser Harbutt, Emory University
The Iron Lady and the Cowboy: Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and the Special Relationship at High Tide Nathan Vigil, Emory University
"We're in this Together": A Reassessment of the Relationship between the Presidents of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain Phyllis Soybel, College of Lake Country
Commentator: Fraser Harbutt
PANEL 5: The Carter Administration's Foreign Policies-Human Rights (Grand Dominion IV)
Chair: Dave Schmitz, Whitman College
Taking the High Road to Failure: Carter's Human Rights Agenda in East-West Relations Werner Lippert, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Moral Necessities and National Interest: Rethinking U.S.-Latin American Relations in a Human Rights Era Vanessa Walker, University of Wisconsin Madison
The "Loss" of Iran: Carter's Return to Realpolitik Barbara Zanchetta, University of Florence & Tampere University
Commentator: Scott Kaufman, Francis Marion University
PANEL 6: Limited Influence: American Efforts to Shape China, 1920- 1951 (Grand Dominion V)
Chair: Eric Patterson, Vanguard University of Southern California
The End of an American Enterprise in China: The Harvard-Yenching Institute as a Case Study Shuhua Fan, Marshall University
Americans and Chiang Kai-shek: Origins of a Special Relationship Michael Wilson, Vanguard University of Southern California
American and Chinese Liberalism in the Pacific War Matthew Yates, The Ohio State University
Commentators: Charles Hayford, Northwestern University & Li Li, Salem State College
PANEL 7: Do Individuals Really Matter? A Roundtable Discussion of the Force of Personality within Diplomatic History (Grand Dominion VI)
Chair: Mark Moyar, U.S. Marine Corps University
Two Biographies: Harry Truman and Dean Acheson Robert L. Beisner, American University
Bush in China: How Foreign Service Changed George H.W. Bush's Presidency Jeffrey A. Engel, Bush School, Texas A & M University
Robert Bowie--Analyst and Academic Philip Gibbon, Temple University
Puppet, Despot, Sage: Using Biography to Reassess Ngo Dinh Diem and US Relations with the First Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963 Edward Miller, Dartmouth College
Warmongers and Peacemakers: New Biography and Informal Diplomacy Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Ohio State University
SESSION II (4:30pm - 6:30pm)
PANEL 8: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation: Anglo-American Relations and the Middle East, 1944-64 (Grand Dominion I)
Chair: Andrew Priest, University of Wales
Ambassadors Abroad-British and American Ambassadors/Ministers in Saudi Arabia, 1943-1944 Matthew Hinds, London School of Economics
Sterling, Middle East Oil, and Anglo-American Conflict, 1944-1956 Steven Galpern, U.S. Department of State
Complementary Goals, Conflicting Priorities?: Anglo-American Relations, Southwestern Arabia, and the Harib Incident, 1963-64 Alexander Wieland, U.S. Department of State
Commentator: Michael Hopkins, Liverpool Hope University
PANEL 9: US-China Rapprochement and Normalization: Chinese Policies and Japanese Reaction (Grand Dominion III)
Chair: Ron Lilly, Northern Virginia Community College
Radicalization or Realism?--Assessing China's Japan Policy and its Impacts on the Sino- US Normalization and the US-Japan Security Alliance from the Late 1960s to the 1970s Tao Peng, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Myth or Reality: China's Elite Politics and U.S.-China Relations, March 1973-December 1975 Yafeng Xia, Long Island University
"Shock" or Catalysis: Japan's Reactions to US-China Rapprochement Midori Yoshii, Albion College
Commentator: Gregg A. Brazinsky, George Washington University
PANEL 10: Culture and Gender in the Reagan Era (Grand Dominion II)
Chair: Walter Hixson, University of Akron
Three Anime Classics Interpret Japan’s Role in the Pacific War and Beyond William Ashbaugh, SUNY Oneonta
"Surely Vietnam Veterans were Men": Public Policy and Masculinity in Reagan's America Charlotte Cahill, Northwestern University
Lost in Translation?: Anime as Global Culture in Reagan's America, 1977-1989 Andrew McKevitt, Temple University
Commentator: Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
PANEL 11: Digital Resources for Cold War History (Lincoln Forum)
Chair: Jennifer Walton, Granite State College
The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) Goes Digital: The Office of the Historian's Online "E-Volume" as a Resource for Diplomatic History Carl Ashley, U.S. Department of State
Soviet Society and the Cold War: The Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives Steven Barnes, George Mason University
The End of the Cold War: Making the History of 1989 Matt Romaniello, George Mason University
Commentator: Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archive
PANEL 12: Case Studies in Democratization?: The United States and Eastern Europe in the 1980s (Grand Dominion IV)
Chair: Tom Blanton, National Security Archive
The Western Response to the Democratic Transition in Hungary, 1985-1991 László Borhi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Blueprint for a Conspiracy: Reevaluating the Sources and Effectiveness of American Support for Solidarity, 1982-1989 Greg Domber, George Washington University
US Foreign Policy and the End of the Division of Germany Mary Sarotte, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Commentator: Mark Kramer, Harvard University
PANEL 13: Inside International Trade: Power, Politics, Human Rights and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Grand Dominion V)
Chair: Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder
Who Designs?: Great Power Politics and the General Agreement of 1947 Soo Yeon Kim, Princeton University
How European Integration Challenged the GATT, American Leadership, and Liberal Trade, 1947-1968 Francine McKenzie, University of Western Ontario
U.S. Foreign Economic Policy from Truman to Nixon Kathy Rasmussen, U.S. Department of State
Commentator: Alfred Eckes, Ohio University
PANEL 14: Roundtable: Ghana's Independence: The USA and the Shifting Contours of Black Freedom (Grand Dominion VI) Chair: Andy DeRoche, Front Range Community College
Cary Fraser, Pennsylvania State University Michael Krenn, Appalachian State University George White, University of Tennessee Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan
PLENARY SESSION (7:00pm – 9:00pm)
PANEL 15: Domestic Politics Roundtable (Lincoln Forum)
Chair: David Engerman, Brandeis University
Making Law, Making War, Making America Mary Dudziak, USC
When Democrats Were Hawks Julian Zelizer, Boston University
Commentator: Mark Lawrence, University of Texas/Yale University
Commentator: Robert McMahon, Ohio State University
Reception: 9:00pm – 10:00pm Please join SHAFR in the Rotunda for a reception immediately following the end of the plenary session. Hors d’ouevres, desserts, beer, wine and other drinks will be served.
FRIDAY, 22 JUNE 2007
Registration: 8:00am - 5:00pm (Conference Lobby) Book Exhibit : 8:00am – 5:00pm (Promenade) Refreshments: 8:00am – 9:00am & 3:30pm – 4:00pm (Rotunda)
DIPLOMATIC HISTORY Editorial Board Meeting: 7:45am – 9:00am (Franklin Room)
SESSION III (9:00am – 11:00am)
PANEL 16: Diplomatically Speaking: How Historians of American Foreign Relations Communicate with the American Public (Lincoln Forum)
Chair: Susan Ferber, Oxford University Press
Warren Bass, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Ralph Begleiter, CNN Tim Naftali, Richard Nixon Presidential Library Gideon Rose, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
PANEL 17: Visioning Development in Asia: American Concepts and Strategies in the Eisenhower Years (Grand Dominion I)
Chair: Nicole Sackley, University of Richmond
Modern Reston, Modern India: Redefining the Village in Suburban Virginia and Uttar Pradesh Nick Cullather, Indiana University
Promoting Systems Compatibility: Regional Approaches v. State Building Marc Frey, Jacobs University, Bremen
John Foster Dulles and "Development": Close Encounters in Asian Areas Ronald Pruessen, University of Toronto
Commentator: Nicole Sackley
PANEL 18: Europe Between the Superpowers in the Era of Détente and the Vietnam War, 1968-1973 (Grand Dominion III)
Chair: Klaus Larres, University of Ulster
Swedish Vietnam Criticism Reconsidered: Social Democratic Vietnam Policy As a Swedish Version of Ostpolitik Carl-Gustaf Scott, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Prague, Berlin and London: British Policies on Détente, Ostpolitik and Berlin Quadripartite Negotiations, 1968-69 Ken Nannichi, King's College London
Détente, the Sino-American Opening, and the Vietnam War, 1968-1973: The Polish Perspective Margaret Gnoinska, George Washington University
France's Peace Diplomacy and Economic Development Program Regarding Vietnam, 1968-1973 Yuko Torikata, Osaka University
Commentator: Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison
PANEL 19: Feminism and Internationalism in World War One: Struggling for Peace and Women's Rights (Grand Dominion IV)
Chair: Serge Ricard, Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III)
Women's Activism and Citizen Diplomacy in World War I: The Impact on Woodrow Wilson David Patterson, Independent Scholar
Mead, Balch, Addams: Feminism, Pragmatism, and the Vicissitudes of Liberal Internationalism Andrew Johnston, Carleton University
Women's Rights and International Democracy: Woodrow Wilson's Defense of Women's Suffrage in 1918 Claire Delahaye, Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III)
Italian Feminists and World War I: From Internationalism to Nationalism and Americanism Daniela Rossini, University of Roma 3
Commentator: Carol Chin, University of Toronto
PANEL 20: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1970-1981 (Grand Dominion II)
Chair: Sarah Snyder, Georgetown University
The Nixon Administration, Brazil, and the International Campaign Against Torture Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne
Shared Values or Opposing Interests?: Human Rights in Transatlantic Relations Joseph Renouard, Emory University
Commentator: Mark P. Bradley, Northwestern University
PANEL 21: The State Department and Intelligence Authority in World War II (Grand Dominion V)
Chair: Thomas Boghardt, International Spy Museum
Is Counterintelligence an Affair of State or Justice?: The Bureaucratic Struggle over Responsibility in Two Wars Raymond J. Batvinis, FBI
The State Department, the FCC, and the Latin American D/F Program during the Second World War Larry A. Valero, Air Command and Staff College
The FBI, State Department and Intelligence in the Western Hemisphere John F. Fox, Jr., FBI
Commentator: Katie Sibley, St. Joseph's University
Lunch Break: 11:30am - 1:30pm
SESSION IV (1:30pm - 3:30pm)
PANEL 22: New Perspectives on Early Globalization (Grand Dominion I)
Chair: Edward Crapol, College of William and Mary
Asiatic Cholera and Peruvian Bark: American Physicians and the World, 1800-1840 Elizabeth Kelly Gray, Towson University
Globalization and Extraterritoriality in American Foreign Relations from American Banana to Alcoa Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College
Applauding the Opium War: John Quincy Adams and Britain's Global War vs. Slavery Heath Mitton, St. Lawrence University
Commentator: Joseph Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
PANEL 23: Returning Diplomatic Historians to H-Diplo: A Roundtable (Lincoln Forum)
Chair: Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder
Christopher Ball, Iowa State University George Fujii,University of California, Santa Barbara David Kaiser, Williams College William Keylor, Boston University Diane Labrosse, Concordia University Sally Marks, Independent Scholar Thomas Nichols, U.S. Naval War College Chester Pach, Ohio University
PANEL 24: Communication and US-Japan Relations During the 1940s (Grand Dominion II)
Chair: Ronald Spector, George Washington University
Solving the Enigma of Japan's Delayed Final Note at the Start of the Pacific War Takeo Iguchi, Shobi University
Preventative War and Diplomatic Communication David Nickles, U.S. Department of State
Senator Elbert Thomas and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1941-1948 Haruo Iguchi, Nagoya University
Ambassdor Joseph Grew and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937-1941 David Mayers, Boston University
Commentator: Ronald Spector
PANEL 25: Crisis Management of Management Crisis?: U.S.-Latin
America Relations During the Kennedy Years (Grand Dominion III)
Chair: Stephen Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas
The Chastening of a Cold Warrior: John Kennedy and Political Extremism in Latin America Jeffrey Bass, Quinnipiac University
Kennedy's Fiasco: U.S. Domestic Politics and the Bay of Pigs Steven George, Ohio University
The Limits of Hegemony: The Kennedy Administration and the Argentine Coup of 1962 Dustin Walcher, Ohio State University
Omnipotence and Impotence: The Kennedy Administration's Response to the 1962 Peruvian Coup Michael Neagle, University of Connecticut
Commentator: Stephen Rabe
PANEL 26: Minds at War: Expertise and the National Security State, 1945-68 (Grand Dominion IV)
Chair: Michael Latham, Fordham University
Cold War Casualty: Politics and Scholarship at the Institute of Pacific Relations Michael Anderson, University of Texas at Austin
Activism of Appeasement?: Linus Pauling, Edward Teller, and the Battle for Cold War Science Paul Rubinson, University of Texas at Austin
Social Research in the Pentagon: Project Camelot and the Scientific Management of American Foreign Affairs Joy Rohde, University of Pennsylvania
Vietnam: The American Turn Toward Peace Lori Helene Gronich, Georgetown University
Commentator: Michael Latham
PANEL 27: NATO and the Gaullist Challenge in the 1960s: Anglo Saxon Responses and Institutional Strategies (Grand Dominion V)
Chair: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
The French Withdrawal of NATO: An Inevitable Crisis? Garret Martin, Warwick University
A Welcome Relief?: French Withdrawal from NATO, the Gaullist Challenge and Ango- American Responses James Ellison, Queen Mary, University of London
The Bilderberg Group and the Gaullist Challenge to NATO Thomas W. Gijswijt, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Commentator: William Hitchcock, Temple University
PANEL 28: The Politics of Foreign Aid: Domestic and International Considerations (Grand Dominion VI)
Chair: Kristin Ahlberg, U.S. Department of State
“A Crumbling Bastion”: Economic Development, Nation Building and the Politics of Foreign Aid in Southern Vietnam, 1958-1960 James Carter, Texas A & M-Corpus Christi
“One of the Most Vexing Problems of American Foreign Policy”: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Considerations of the Foreign Aid Program Erin Black, University of Toronto
The United States and Coordination of Aid Policies in the Development Assistance Committee, 1961-1965 Sara Lorenzini, University of Trento
“A Corrupting Influence”: Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy in U.S.-Guinean Relations, 1966 Mairi MacDonald, University of Toronto
Commentator: Kristin Ahlberg
SESSION V (4:00pm – 6:00pm)
PANEL 29: Kennedy & Nuclear Weapons (Grand Dominion I)
Chair: Andrew Johns, Brigham Young University
"We did not trade Cuban Missiles for Turkish missiles": President Kennedy, the Senate, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Steven Cronin, Mississippi State University
JFK's Israel Problem: US Nuclear Concerns with Israel in the Early 1960s Eliza Matthews, University of Queensland
Kennedy, McNamara, and the Foundations of the Rationale Against Missile Defense, 1961-1964 Joseph Constance, Saint Anselm's College
Commentator: Andrew Johns
PANEL 30: The (Mis)Uses of History: The Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (Grand Dominion III)
Chair: Robert Schulzinger, University of Colorado, Boulder
Will History Remember Iraq? Forgotten Memories from the Philippine-American War Jon Krohn, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Presidents Truman and Bush and the Perils of Regime Change Arnie Offner, Lafayette College
Which Vietnam Analogy?: Contested Memories of Vietnam and Political Rhetoric about Iraq Marianna Sullivan, College of New Jersey
Commentator: David Anderson, California State University, Monterey Bay
PANEL 31: The US National Security Adviser and the Cold War World: Bundy, Rostow, Kissinger, Brzezinski and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Lincoln Forum)
Chair: Mark Kramer, Harvard University
Dean of the World: McGeorge Bundy and Kennedy's Foreign Policy, 1961-63 Christian Nuenlist, ETH Zurich
America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War David Milne, Nottingham University
Henry Kissinger and European-American Relations Klaus Larres, University of Ulster
Reflections on Zbigniew Brzezinski's Role during the Carter Years William Odom, Hudson Institute and Yale University
Commentator: William Burr, National Security Archive/George Washington University
PANEL 32: Roundtable: The United States, Japan and South Korea Security Relations, Past and Future (Grand Dominion IV)
Chair: William Stueck, University of Georgia
Gregg A. Brazinsky, George Washington University Michael W. Chinworth, Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation, Vanderbuilt University Seung Young Kim, University of Aberdeen Narushige Michishita, National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan Yasuyo Sakata, Kanda University of International Studies (Japan) Robert Wampler, National Security Archive Taeyoung Yoon, Yonsei University
PANEL 33: Resources and Tools for Teaching the History of U.S. Foreign Relations: Introducing the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) (Grand Dominion II)
Chair: Mark Gilderhus, Texas Christian University
Introducing the Center for History and New Media (CHNM)
Roy Rosenzweig, Director, CHNM, George Mason University Thomas Scheinfeldt, Assistant Director, CHNM, George Mason University Sharon Leon, Associate Director of Educational Projects, CHNM, George Mason University
Commentary:
Carol Adams, Ottawa University Catherine Forslund, Rockford College Matthew Loayza, Minnesota State University, Mankato Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
PANEL 34: Southern Africa in the Cold War: Great Power Interventions and Local Reactions (Grand Dominion V)
Chair: Cary Fraser, Pennsylvania State University
White Rhodesia and the Cold War Donal Lowry, Oxford Brookes University
South Africa and the Cold War: The Year of 1976 Sue Onslow, London School of Economics
The US Government and South African Nuclear Capability, 1949-1995 Martha Van Wyk, University of Johannesburg
Commentator: Cary Fraser
PANEL 35: Sport and American Foreign Relations, 1949-1972 (Grand Dominion VI)
Chair: Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Denazification, Democratization, and the Cold War: The State Department's Manipulation of the German Olympic Committee Heather Dichter, University of Toronto
American Sport Policy and the Cultural Cold War: The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Years Thomas M. Hunt, University of Texas, Austin
"Real Friends": Constructing Soviet-American Friendship Through Olympic Ice Hockey John Soares, University of Notre Dame
Commentator: Jeremi Suri
SATURDAY, 23 JUNE 2007
Registration: 9:00am - 5:00pm (Conference Lobby) Book Exhibit : 9:00am – 5:00pm (Promenade) Refreshments: 8:00am – 9:00am & 3:30pm – 4:00pm (Rotunda)
Women Historians in SHAFR Breakfast: 7:45am – 9:00am (Pre-registration required. Grand Dominion V.)
The Pleasure (and Pain) of Writing About Powerful Women in Foreign Affairs Anna K. Nelson, American University
SESSION VI (9:00am – 11:00am)
PANEL 36: Henry Kissinger: Cold War Villain, International War Criminal, or Conventional Cold War Statesman? (Lincoln Forum)
Chair: Keith Olson, University of Maryland
Jussi Hanhimaki, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva John Prados, National Security Archive Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison James Hershberg, George Washington University Noam Kochavi, Hebrew University
PANEL 37: A Necessary Reinterpretation of Presidential Power and Policy Making: The Secret Tapes of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon (Grand Dominion II)
Chair: Brian Etheridge, Louisiana Tech. University
“We Will Not Pull Out of Vietnam Until the War is Won”: A Comparative Discussion of the Evolving History of America in Vietnam from the Kennedy and Johnson Tapes Richard M. Filipink, Western Illinois University
A Fresh Look at Policy-Making in the Nixon White House: Tales from the Nixon Tapes Luke Nichter, Bowling Green State University
A Cancellation Crisis? The 1972 Easter Offensive & US-Soviet Relations Richard Moss, George Washington University
Commentator: Ken Hughes, Miller Center, University of Virginia
PANEL 38: Transnational Histories of Indigenous Peoples (Grand Dominion III)
Chair: Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University
Jihad and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia: United States Colonial Policy in the Southern Philippines, 1898-1946 Omar Hassan Dphrepaulezz, University of Connecticut at Storrs
The Inter-American Indian Institute and the First "Other American" Sheyda F.A. Jahanbani, Brown University
Mindanao's Muslims Michael Hawkins, Northern Illinois University
Commentator: Kenton Clymer
PANEL 39: Security Issues in US-Japan Relations (Grand Dominion I)
Chair: Roger Dingman, University of Southern California
Prelude to Okinawa: Nuclear Agreements and the Return of the Ogasawara Islands to Japan Robert D. Eldridge, Osaka University
The Sata Cabinet and the Making of Japan's Non-Nuclear Policy Ayako Kusunoki, Center for International Security Studies
Presence and Credibility: Homeporting the USS Midway at Yokosuka Tetsuo Kotani, Ocean Policy Research Foundation
Commentator Nicholas Sarantakes, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Commentator: Michael Schaller, University of Arizona
PANEL 40: War, Migration, and Citizenship (Jeffersonian V)
Chair: Petra Goedde, Temple University
Black Yanks in America's Pacific: Military Service, the National Security State, and Interpersonal Politics, 1945-1953 Michael Green, Northwestern University
"So They'd Disappear": Southeast Asian Refugees, Congressional Resettlement Policy, and the Politics of Race, Citizenship and War Jessica Johnson, Brown University
The Other Internment: The United States, Latin America, and "Enemy Aliens" during World War II Stephen Mak, Northwestern University
Commentator: Petra Goedde
PANEL 41: The Interwar Era as a Foretelling of US Pre-Eminence: Establishing American Diplomatic Consensus (Jeffersonian VI)
Chair: Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester
Cordell Hull and U.S. Foreign Economic Policy: Building Multilateralism One Trade Deal at a Time David Woolner, Marist College
The Contest for an American Foreign Policy Vision, 1928-1940 J. Simon Rofe, King's College London
The Idea of a New World Order is No New Idea Jeremy Kennard, University of Kent at Canterbury
Blockade vs. Bread: Hoover, Britain, and the Conflict Over Humanitarian Aid during the First and Second World Wars Meredith Hindley, American University
Commentator: Andrew Johnstone
Luncheon and Presidential Address: (11:30am - 1:30pm) (Pre-registration required. Grand Dominion V & VI)
Intelligence and Strategy: Historicizing Psychology, Policy, & Politics Richard H. Immerman, Temple University, SHAFR President
SESSION VII (1:30pm – 3:30pm)
PANEL 42: Race, Violence and Pan Americanism in Latin America: 1920-1945 (Grand Dominion II)
Chair: Alan McPherson, Howard University
John Peter Williams, the Panamanian Robin Hood: Race Identity, and Crime on the Isthmus, 1918-1923 Michael Donoghue, Marquette University
Pan American Responses to the 1937 Haitian/Dominican Massacre Chantalle Verna, Florida International University
A View of the Lagoon from Mexico: World War II, Murder, and Race in U.S.-Mexican Relations Monica Rankin, University of Texas at Dallas
Commentator: James Siekmeier, U.S. Department of State
PANEL 43: Linking Security and Prosperity: Explorations into the Political Economy of NATO (Jeffersonian V)
Chair: Lawrence S. Kaplan, Georgetown University
Efficiency versus Nationalism in the Origins of NATO: Collective Balanced Forces Against National Balanced Forces Victor Gavin, University of Barcelona
“From…the Standpoint of Security”: NATO and the Dollar Gap Curt Cardwell, Drake University
Social-Democratic Objections to NATO in the Netherlands and the Instrumentality of American Military Aid David Snyder, Central Michigan University
The U.S. Strategic Materials Program and its Impact on Allied Countries; Stockpiling and Norway 1950-1962 Mats Ingulstad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Commentator: Lawrence S. Kaplan
PANEL 44: New Frontiers: Great Power Rivalry and Third World Resistance in the 1960s (Jeffersonian VI)
Chair: Douglas Little, Clark University
A Wind of Change?: Apartheid in the World, 1960-1963 Ryan Irwin, Ohio State University
“A Genuine Departure?”: Robert W. Komer and American Policy Toward the Nonaligned World, 1961-1966 Robert Rakove, University of Virginia
Honor and Dignity: Al-Karamah and the Diplomacy of Resistance, 1968 Paul Chamberlin, Ohio State University
Commentator: Douglas Little
PANEL 45: Diverse Doctrines: New Perspectives on the Nixon Doctrine From Asia to Latin America (Grand Dominion I)
Chair: Jeffrey Kimball, Miami University
From Operation Cooperation to Operation Condor: U.S. Narcotics Control and Poppy Eradication in Mexico, 1969-1976 Daniel Weimer, Wheeling Jesuit Unviersity
Be Careful What You Wish For: The Nixon Administration, "Vietnamization," and the Opening of the People's Republic of China, 1969-1972 Chris Tudda, U.S. Department of State
Embracing the New Order at a Distance: The Nixon Administration and Indonesia, 1969- 1974 Brad Simpson, UMBC
Commentator: Jeffrey Kimball
PANEL 46: A "Valuable Batch of Brains": Postwar Foreign Policy Intellectuals from the Bureaucracy, the Academy, and the Public Sphere (Grand Dominion III)
Chair: Walter Hixson
Sumner Welles, William Bullitt, and Leo Pasvolsky: Three Bureaucrats in Search of an Idea Kenneth Weisbrode, Harvard University
The Hard-Won Relevance of Émigré Realism during the Early Cold War Eileen G. Rafshoon, Oxford College of Emory University
Shouting at Power: Norman Podhoretz and American Foreign Policy Nathan D. Abrams, University of Wales-Bangor
Kennan and the War on Terror Pekka Vahvanen, University of Jyväskylä
Commentator: Walter Hixson
PANEL 47: Foreign Policy, the Vietnam War, and the Environment: Chemical Defoliation Across Decades and Borders (Grand Dominion IV)
Chair: Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan
The Wild West and the New Frontier: The Kennedy Administration, Vietnam, and Operation Ranch Hand Evelyn Krache Morris, Georgetown University
Agent Orange & Vietnam
Edwin A. Martini, Western Michigan University
Putting the Present Behind Us: Détente, Disarmamemt and Environmental Warfare in Vietnam David Zierler, Temple University
Commentator: Andrew Jon Rotter, Colgate University
SESSION VIII (4:00pm – 6:00pm)
PANEL 48: Idealism and the Making of U.S. Cold War Foreign Policy (Grand Dominion I)
Chair: Erin Mahan, Office of the Historian, US Department of State
Thomas Finletter and Multilateralism in US Foreign Policy Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester
George W. Ball in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations Andrew Priest, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
G. Mennen Williams and the Contest to Decide U.S. policy towards Africa, 1961-1966 Carl P. Watts, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Commentator: Anna Locher, Center for Security Studies, Zurich
PANEL 49: “Space, Place and Latin America": A Roundtable on the Intersection of History and Geography in the Inter-American Relations (Grand Dominion III)
Chair: Alan McPherson, Howard University
Latin America in the World Kyle Longley, Arizona State University
Brazil W. Michael Weis, Illinois Wesleyan University
The Caribbean Jason C. Parker, Texas A & M University
Central America: The Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign of 1980 Andrew J. Kirkendall, Texas A & M University
The Southern Cone Mark T. Hove, U.S. Department of State
PANEL 50: Questioning Imperial Legacies: The United States and the Philippines, 1898-1950 (Jeffersonian VI )
Chair: Paul Kramer, University of Michigan
Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1938-39 Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University
Imperialism during Isolationism: Transitions in U.S. Colonial Administration of the Philippines, 1918-1932 Matthew J. Smith, Syracuse University
"Midwives to Development": Social Welfare and the Discourses of Independence in Postwar U.S./Philippine Relations Colleen Woods, University of Michigan
In and Out of Government: John Barrett, U.S. Statecraft, and International Interlocutors Chris Vaughan, Santa Clara University
Commentator: Paul Kramer
PANEL 51: Toward A Reaganite Foreign Policy (Grand Dominion IV)
Chair: Chester Pach, Ohio University
Neo-Conservatives and the Reagan Revolution Jeff Bloodworth, Newman University
"Evil Empire": The Soul of Reaganite Foreign Policy Jon R. Peterson, Contemporary History Institute and Ohio University
Cold War Christians in the "Age of Reagan": The Christian Right's View of Foreign Policy, 1980-1992 Daniel K. Williams, University of West Georgia
Combating the Threat of Godless Communism: Religious Broadcasting in the Early Cold War Timothy Stoneman, MIT
Commentator: Anna Nelson
PANEL 52: Roundtable: Atomic Diplomacy (Lincoln Forum)
Chair: William Burr, National Security Archive, George Washington University
Barton J. Bernstein, Stanford University Richard Frank, Independent Scholar Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, University of California at Santa Barbara
PANEL 53: Roundtable: A Look Back as the Tet Offensive Turns Forty (Grand Dominion II)
Chair: Jeffrey Kimball, Miami University
The Tet Offensive and Hanoi's Revolutionary Strategy Pierre Asselin, Chaminade University of Honolulu
Soviet Biscuit Factories, Chinese Financial Grants: North Vietnam's Economic Diplomacy During and After the Tet Offensive Harish Mehta, McMaster University
Saigon in the Aftermath of the Tet Offensive Lien-Hang Nguyen, University of Kentucky
Tet, Rolling Thunder and the Education of Clark Clifford Brian Clancy, University of Western Ontario
Commentator: Randall Woods, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
PANEL 54: Woodrow Wilson's World: Sociocultural Issues in Wilsonian Foreign Policy (Jeffersonian V)
Chair: Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University
"Wilson's Mouthpiece?": The New York World and Mexico, 1913-1915 Mark Benbow, The Woodrow Wilson House (formerly)
Insanity, Civilization, and a Hun: Woodrow Wilson's Lens on Kaiser Wilhelm, 1914-1917 Matthew Phillips, Kent State University
An Imagined Axis: Visions of a Japan-Germany Alliance in U.S. and Japanese Political Discourses of the First World War Era Robert G. Kane, Niagara University
Commentator: Mark Gilderhus, Texas Christian University