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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