curriculum vitae
Erik GOLDSTEIN Professor of International Relations & History Boston University [email protected]
EDUCATION 1984 Ph.D. in History, University of Cambridge Examiners: Zara Steiner and Michael Dockrill 1980 M.A.L.D. (Master of Arts in International Law & Diplomacy), Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University 1980 M.A. in International Affairs, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University (combined B.A.-M.A. program). 1979 B.A. summa cum laude (History & Religion), and Phi Beta Kappa, Tufts University 1978 Certificate, University of Oslo.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 1984-98 University of Birmingham 1984-90 Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International History 1990-93 Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International History 1993-97 Reader in International History 1997-98 Professor of International History
1998-present Boston University 1998-present Professor of International Relations (and History, 2005) 1998-2010 Chair, Dept. of International Relations (now Pardee School of Global Studies)
Visiting Appointments 1988, 1993 Visiting Scholar, Centre for International Studies, University of Cambridge. 1990-91 Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow, U.S. Naval War College. 2009, 2010-11 Visiting Professor, Dept. of History, University of East Anglia. 2018 Honorary Library Fellow, Dr. Williams’s Library, London. 2018 Visitng Professor, Dept. of Political Economy, King’s College, London.
Concurrent Appointments: Univesity of Birmingham 1988-94 Associate Member, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies. 1998 Deputy Director, Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy. 1999-2009 Hon. Fellow, Center for Studies in Security and Diplomacy. 1999-2009 Hon. Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
Concurrent Appointments: Boston Univesity 1999-present Senior Fellow, International History Institute. 2007-present Fellow, Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations. 2009-present Affiliated Faculty, Graduate Division of Religious Studies. 2018-present Affiliated Faculty, Global Development Policy Center.
Concurrent Appointments: Other 1995-2005 Hon. Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Leicester. 1996 Visiting Lecturer, University of Buckingham PUBLICATIONS
Journal Editor: 1988-2007 Diplomacy and Statecraft. Vols. 1-18. Guest Editor, Special Issues: 2014 ‘Issues in Global Politics’ 25:1 (Mar. 2014): 1-155, 192-4. 2019 ‘Of War and Peace: Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles’ [also as a book].
Advisory Editor: 2012-14 Advisory Editor for International Relations, Oxford on Line Bibliographies, Oxford University Press.
Books: 1990 The End of the Cold War. (London and Portland: Cass, 1990), co-editor, 220pp.
1991 Winning the Peace: British Diplomatic Strategy, Peace Planning, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1916-1920. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991). 307pp.
1992 Wars and Peace Treaties. (London and New York: Routledge, 1992). 264pp.
1994 The Washington Conference, 1921-22: Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability, and the Road to Pearl Harbor (London and Portland: Cass & Co., 1993), co-editor. 319pp. Hardback and paperback editions.
1999 The Munich Crisis: New Interpretations and the Road to World War II, (London: Cass, 1999), co- editor, Hardback and paperback editions.
2002 Guide to International Relations and Diplomacy, (London: Continuum, 2002), co-editor, 567pp.
2002 The First World Wars Peace Settlements: international relations, 1918-25 (London: Longmans, 2002. London: Routledge, 2013). Italian translation: Gli accordidi pace dopo la Grande guerra, 1919-25 (Milan: il Mulino, 2005).
2003 Power and Stability: British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965 (London, Cass: 2003), (co-editor).
2020 Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles: Of War and Peace (London: Routledge, 2020), co-editor.
Forthcoming: 2022 Great-Power War in Asia and the Pacific: The Road to Pearl Harbor (Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2022), (co-editor)
In Progress: The Great Powers and the East Mediteranean World, 1798- present.
Discussion Papers 1997 The Politics of the State Visit [Diplomatic Studies Programme Discussion Papers no. 26] (Leicester: Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, 1997). 27pp. Reprinted in Diplomacy, vol. II, Diplomacy, C. Jönsson and R. Langhorne, (London: Sage, 2004). Articles & Chapters 1987 'British Peace Aims and the Eastern Question: The Political Intelligence Department and the Eastern Committee, 1918.' Middle Eastern Studies 23:4 (1987): 419-36.
1987 'New Diplomacy and the New Europe at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919: The A.W.A. Leeper Papers.' East European Quarterly 21:4 (1987): 393-400.
1988 'The Foreign Office and Political Intelligence, 1917-20.' Review of International Studies 14:4 (1988): 275-88.
1989 'Quis Separabit: The Order of St. Patrick and Anglo-Irish Relations, 1922-1934.' Historical Research 62:147 (1989): 70-80.
1989 'Great Britain and Greater Greece, 1917-20.' Historical Journal 32:3 (1989): 339-56.
1990 'Historians Outside the Academy: G.W. Prothero and the Experience of the Foreign Office Historical Section, 1917-1920.' Historical Research 63:151 (1990): 195-211.
1991 'Holy Wisdom and British Foreign Policy, 1918-1922: the St. Sophia Redemption Agitation' Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 15 (1991): 36-64.
1993 'The Evolution of British Diplomatic Strategy for the Washington Conference, 1921-22' Diplomacy & Statecraft 4:3 (1993): 4-34.
1995 'The New Europe and the New Greece' in P. Carabott, ed. Greece and Europe in the Modern Period: aspects of a troubled relationship (London: Centre for Hellenic Studies, 1995), pp. 38-54.
1996 'British Diplomatic Strategy and the Locarno Conference' in M. Dockrill and B.J.C. McKercher, Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 115-35.
1996 ‘The Origins of Summit Diplomacy’ in David Dunn, ed. Diplomacy at the Highest Level: the evolution of international summitry. (London: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 23-37.
1997 ‘The British Official Mind and Europe’ Diplomacy & Statecraft 8:3 (Nov. 1997): 165-78.
1997 ‘The British Official Mind and the United States, 1919-42’ in T. Otte and C. Pagedas, eds. Personalities, War and Diplomacy (London: Cass, 1997), pp.66-80.
1998 ‘The Round Table and the New Europe’ The Round Table 346 (1998): 177-189.
1998 ‘Greece: the imperatives of geopolitics’ Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 22 (1998): 169-184.
1998 ‘Developments in Protocol’in J. Kurbalija, ed. Modern Diplomacy (Malta: Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, 1998), pp. 49-56.
1998 ‘The New Europe and the Round Table’ in A. Bosco and A. May, ed. The Round Table: The Empire/ Commonwealth and British Foreign policy (London: South Bank University Press and the Lothian Foundation Press, 1998), pp. 437-50.
1998 'The Peacemakers and the British Homefront' in M. Boemke, et al,.The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassesssment after Seventy-Five Years, German Historical Institute (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp.147-66.
1999 ‘Neville Chamberlain, The British Official Mind and the Munich Crisis’, Diplomacy & Statecraft 10:2 (1992): 276-92. And in Erik Goldstein and Igor Lukes, The Munich Crisis: New Interpretations and the Road to World War II (co-editor) (London: Cass, 1999). Hardback and paperback editions.
2000 ‘Europe and Interaction with the Non-European World since 1945’(co-author) in M. Fullbrook, ed., Europe Since 1945: Short Oxford History of Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 240-274.
2001 ‘The Eastern Question: The Last Phase’ in M. Dockrill and J. Fisher, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919: peace without victory? (London: Palgrave in association with the Public Record Office, 2001), pp. 141-55.
2003 ‘Britain and the First Cold War’, in M. Hopkins et al, eds. Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1964: New Perspectives (London: Palgrave Macmillan Cold War History Series, 2003), pp. 7-14, 193-5.
2003 ‘Disarmament, Arms Control, and Arms Reduction’ in M. Henessey and BJC McKercher, eds. War in the Twentieth Century: reflections at century's end (Westport: Praeger Studies in Diplomacy and Strategic Thought, 2003), pp. 45-64.
2003 ‘The British Official Mind and the Lausanne Conference, 1922-23’ Diplomacy & Statecraft 14:2 (June 2003): 185-206.
2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) George Clerk, vol. 12, pp. 43-5. Laurence Collier, vol 12, pp. 654-5. Archibald Clark Kerr, vol. 31, pp. 409-10 Geoffrey Knox, vol. 32, pp. 224-5. AWA Leeper, vol. 33, pp. 141-2. James Headlam-Morley, vol. 39, pp. 224-5. William Tyrrell, vol. 55, pp. 807-10. Victor Wellesley, vol. 58, pp. 46-7.
2007 'The Versailles System' in Gordon Martel, ed. Companion to International History, 1900-1945 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007; paperback edition, 2010)
2008 'Politics of the State Visit' Hague Journal of Diplomacy 3:2 (2008): 153-78.
2009 ‘Religion and British policy towards the Ottoman Empire, 1875-1923’ in Keith Robbins and John Fisher, Religion and Diplomacy: Religion and British Foreign Policy, 1815 to 1941 in series New Directions in Diplomatic History (Dordrecht: Republic of Letters, 2009)
2010 ‘Origins of the Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1880-1914’ in Gaynor Johnson, ed. Peacemaking, Peacemakers and Diplomacy 1880-1939. Essays in Honour of Professor Alan Sharp (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 3-16.
2011 ‘Writers, the Clergy, and the “Diplomatization” of Culture: The Sub-Structures of Anglo- American Diplomacy, 1820-1914, with M. Hall, in Anthony Best and John Fisher, On the Fringes of Diplomacy (London: Ashgate, 2011) pp. 127-54.
2011 ‘Redeeming Holy Wisdom: Britain and St. Sophia’ in Melanie Hall, ed. Towards World Heritage:International Origins of the Preservation Movement, 1870-1930 in series Heritage, Culture and Identity (London: Ashgate, 2011), (paperback: London: Routledge,2016), pp. 45-62.
2012 ‘ “A prominent place would have to be taken by history”: The Origins of a Foreign Office Historical Section’ in T.G. Otte, ed. Diplomacy and Power: Studies in Modern Diplomatic Practice (London: Ashgate, 2012).
2014 ‘Diplomacy in the Service of History: Anglo-American Relations and the Return of the Bradford History of Plymouth Colony, 1897’, Diplomacy & Statecraft 25:1 (March 2014): 26-40.
2014 American material in the papers of Sir Esme Howard, 1906-1930: an introduction to the British Online Archives edition (Wakefield , UK): Microform Academic Publishers / British Online Archives, 2014).
2014 Papers of Sir Esme Howard, 1863-1939: an introduction to the British Online Archives edition (Wakefield (UK): Microform Academic Publishers / British Online Archives, 2014).
2014 ‘A World Without a Hotline: War 1914’, Special Feature: World War I: 100 Years Later, Asteion 80 [Japan]: 36-46.
2016 ‘Royal Ambassadors: Monarchical Public Diplomacy and the United States’, in F. Müller and H. Mehrkens, Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 63-80.
2017 ‘America and the King Alfred Millenary Commemorations’ in T.G. Otte, ed. The Age of Anniversaries: The Cult of Commemoration 1895-1925 (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 36-60.
2018 ‘The British Royal Family and the Making of the Anglo-American Relationship’ in M. Glencross and J. Rowbotham, Monarchies and the Great War (London: Palgrave, 2018), pp. 41-65.
2019 ‘Cultural Heritage, British Diplomacy and the German Peace Settlement of 1919’, Diplomacy & Statecraft (June 2019): 336-57.
2019 ‘The Ambassadors, 1919-39’ in T.G. Otte, ed. British World Policy and the Projection of Global Power,1830-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 201-25.
2019 ‘Building the Anglo-American relationship - The John Robinson Memorial Church, Gainsborough, Lincs.’ Congregational History 9:2 (2019): 67-80.
2021 ‘The Enduring Contributions of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919’ in A Frustrated Peace: The Versailles Treaty and its Political, Social and Economic Impact on Europe’, (Vienna: New Academic Press), pp. 15-24.
2021 ‘Partition and Peacemaking after the Great War’ in N. C. Fleming and James H. Murphy, Ireland and Partition: Contexts and Consequences (Clemson, N.C.: Clemson University Press).
Forthcoming: 2022 ‘Constructing a Liberal International Order: David Lloyd George and Peacemaking’ in John Maurer and Erik Goldstein, eds., Great-Power War in Asia and the Pacific: The Road to Pearl Harbor (Annapolis, U.S. Naval Institute Press).
Encyclopaedia Articles 1998 'Konrad Adenauer' in D. Dinan, ed. Encyclopaedia of the European Union (Washington: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998), pp. 5-6.
2000 ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’ in G. Speake, ed. Encyclopaedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, vol. II, (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), pp. 1702-03;
2000 ‘Ioannis Metaxas’ in G. Speake, ed. Encyclopaedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, vol. II, (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), pp. 1043-44.
2002 ‘The Treaties of London’ World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago, 2002), and numerous subsequent electronic editions.
2008 ‘Germany-United States Treaty (1921)’ Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, ) vol. IV, pp.452-3. e—edition, 2008 (www.mpepil.com )
2018 Encyclopedia of Diplomacy, Gordon Martel, ed. (Oxford: Wiley, 2018) ‘Calvinist Diplomacy’, Vol. I, pp. 267-74. ‘Earl of Aberdeen’, Vol. I, pp. 1-3. ‘Holy Alliance’, Vol. II, pp. 845-8. ‘Minorities and Diplomacy’, Vol. III, pp. 1236-43.
Selected Research Communications and Notes: 1986 ‘Hertford House: The Naval Intelligence Geographical Section and Peace Conference Planning, 1917-1919.’ The Mariner's Mirror 72:1 (1986): 85-88.
1990 ‘A World Transformed’, Diplomacy and Statecraft 1:3 (1990): 1-12.
1990 ‘A Chronology of the Cold War’, Diplomacy and Statecraft 1:3 (1990): 203-13.
1999 ‘Diplomatic Studies in Britain’, Diplomatic Studies Programme Newsletter
Book Reviews: 1986 Alvin Coox, Nomonhan in RUSI Journal (1986).
1986 Jonathan Steele, ‘The Limits of Soviet Power: The Kremlin's Foreign Policy ‐ Brezhnev to Chernenko’ (London: Penguin, 1985) in Journal of Communist Studies 2:1 (1986)
1990 John Ferris, Men, Money, and Diplomacy: The Evolution of British Strategic Foreign Policy, 1919-1926 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989) in International History Review: 12:1 (Feb. 1990): 172-174.
1990 B. J. C. McKercher, Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989) in International History Review: 12:1 (Feb. 1990): 615-617.
1992 Alan Sharp, The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking in Paris, 1919 (London: Macmillan, 1991) in French History 6:3 (Sep. 1992): 398-99.
1993 Mark Mazower, Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991) in Journal of Modern Greek Studies 11:2 (Oct. 1993): 301-02.
1995 Fred Marte, Political Cycles in International Relations: The Cold War and Africa 1945-1990 (UV Uitgeverij [Free University], 1994) in African Affairs 94:376 (Jul. 1995): 454-55.
1995 A.L. Macfie. The Straits Question, 1908-36 (Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1993) in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Nov., 1995), pp. 518-519.
1995 Jan Melissen, The Struggle for Nuclear Partnership: Britain, the United States and the Making of an Ambiguous Alliance, 1952–1959 (Groningen: Styx Publications, 1993) in Contemporary Security Policy 16:3 (1995)
1996 Chistopher Harmon and David Tucker, Statecraft and Power" essays in Honor of Harold W. Rood (Lanham: University Press of America, 1994) in Diplomacy & Statecraft 6:3 (Nov. 1995): 840-2.
2011 Andrew Duffy, Eleftherios Venizelos, [Series: Makers of the Modern World: the peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath] (London: Haus, 2010) in H-Diplo.
2011 Jeremy Black, A History of Diplomacy (London: Reaktion Books, 2010) in International Affairs 81: 1 (Jan. 2011): 205-6.
2012 Harry J. Psomiades. Fridtjof Nansen and the Greek Refugee Crisis, 1922-1924. (Bloomingdale: The Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center, 2011) in Mediterranean Quarterly 23:4 (Fall 2012): 135-7.
2013 Andrew Stewart. A Very British Experience: Coalition, Defence and Strategy in the Second World War in Global War Studies 10:1 (2013): 108-09.
2017 Susan Pedersen, The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) in Journal of Modern History 89:1 (Mar. 2017): 166-67.
2017 Robert E. Hannigan, The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-24 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) in International Affairs 93:3 (May 2017): 760-61.
2020 John Fisher, Effie G.H. Pedaliu, and Richard Smith (eds.), The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Journal of Contemporary History 55:2 (2020): 436-38.
Selected Additional Writings: 1988 'Eirikur Benedikz' The Times 1988 'Eirikur Benedikz' The Independent 1989 'Mastering International Studies.' The Birmingham Magazine 1 (July 1989):14c 1989 'Megale Vrettania kai e Megale Ellas' [‘Great Britain and Greater Greece (1917-1920) / Mεγάλη Bρετνία και Μεγάλη Ελλάα (1917-1920)] Eletheria [ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ] 27 November 1989. 1992 'H S Ferns' The Independent 2000 ‘Preface’, Occasional Lecture (Boston: Boston University, The University Professors, 2000) 2005 'The Anglo-American Century' Capturing History (Gottlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, 2005) 2014 ‘Un digno relevo’ La Razón, 4 June 2014, p. 39. 2014 ‘Por qué perduran las monarquías europeas’, La Razón, 22 June 2014, p. 22. 2018 ‘Gibraltar, un punto caliente’, La Razón, 20 Dec. 2018. 2019 ‘Un president al servicio del Brexit’La Razón, 3 June 2019, p. 27. 2019 ‘Los <
Editorial Boards 1988-present Diplomacy & Statecraft 1996-2005 Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies 2001-2012 Diplomatic Studies Discussion Papers 2011-2017 Hague Journal of Diplomacy 2011-present International History Review
Book Series Editor 1998- 2005 International History (New York: Praeger). • Kawanmura, Noriko. Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations during World War I (2000). • Wend, Henry. Recovery and Restoration: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Politics of Reconstruction of West Germany’s Shipbuilding Industry, 1945-1955 (2001). • Brogi, Alessandro. A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958 (2001). • Kochavi, Noam. A Conflict Perpetuated: China Policy During the Kennedy Years (2002). • Whitham, Charlie. Bitter Rehersal: British and American Planning for a Post-War West Indies (2002). • Strang, Bruce. On the Fiery March: Mussolini Prepares for War (2003) • Priest, Tyler. Global Steel and the U.S. Quest for Manganese (2003). • Ellis, Sylvia. Britain, America, and the Vietnam War (2004). • Tilchin, William and Charles Neu. Artists of Power: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and their Enduring Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy (2005).
1999- 2006 Diplomats and Diplomacy (London: Cass) • Hopkins, Michael. Oliver Franks and the Truman Administration: Anglo-American Relations, 1948- 1952. (2003). • Johnson, Gaynor, ed. . Locarno revisited: European diplomacy, 1920-1929 (2004). • Protheroe, Gerald. Sir George Clerk (2006).
COURSES TAUGHT University of Birmingham • Introduction to Problems of World History in the Twentieth Century. • Diplomatic History of the Twentieth Century. • Graduate Diplomatic History of the Twentieth Century. • Intelligence and International History • Great Powers in the East Mediteranean
Boston University • Diplomacy & Statecraft • The Great Powers in the Eastern Mediterranean • Empire and Power: British Foreign Policy, 1782-present • History of International Relations, 1900-1945
Adjunct Courses • History of British Foreign Policy. Tufts University London Program (1985-88) • International Relations, 1945-present. University of Buckingham. (1996)
Short Courses: • Britain & the United States: Sources of Power, Internal Conditions, and Foreign Policies, 1700 present, Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge (1985-90). • British Intelligence & British Diplomacy, Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge (23-25 March 1990). • The British Secret Services, Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge (July 1996)
Professional Courses 1993 co-director, South African Diplomatic Training Programme (Sep.-Dec. 1993). 1995 co- director, British Council Seminar: Diplomacy in the Post Cold War Era (22-30 Mar. 1995). 1998 co-director, Mid-Career Diplomats Course, Know How Fund Programme (Mar.-Apr. 1998). 1998 co-director, Conference on Diplomatic Training for Directors of Personnel and Heads of Diplomatic Training, Know How Fund Programme of Diplomatic Studies, Wilton Park (14-26 June 1998). 1998 co-director, Course on European Issues and Institutions, Know How Fund Programme of Diplomatic Studies, Brussels, Luxembourg, Strassbourg, (16-19 Nov. 1998). 1999 co-director, Course on Public Diplomacy, Know How Fund Programme of Diplomatic Studies, Wilton Park (20-25 June 1999).
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS & SOCIETIES
Learned Societies: 1978 Phi Beta Kappa Society 2002-08, 2016-present President, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Epsilon of Massachusetts 1992 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Boards & Committees (Professional): 1992-99 Executive Committee, British International History Group 1996-97 Thesis Prize Committee 1994-2000 Advisory Board, Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, University of Leicester 1994-97 Standing Committee on Modern Greek Studies 1996-97 Convenor, British International Studies Association / Political Studies Association Group on Diplomacy 1996-2000 Co-Director, Diplomatic Studies Programme 2002-2014 Advisory Board, Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University 2012-2019 Advisory Board, Friends of the Libraries of Boston University 2012-present Higher Education Advisory Group, Churchill Archive and Bloomsbury Press
Boards & Committees (Civic): 2010-16 Governing Board, International Baccalaureate Organization member, Governance Committee, Education Committee, Strategic Planning Group. 2016-present Advisory Board, Primary Source (Educational Non-Profit Organization)
Other: 2013-18 Advisory Board: AHRC (Arts & Humanties Research Council, UK) - Networks and Actors in British and French Foreign Ministry Responses to the Idea of European Integration, 1919-1957.
2017-19 Comité scientifique: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the Challenge of a New World Order, International Conference to be held in Paris, June 2019
2018- Advisory Board: AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK) - Cultural meanings of the Mayflower in Britain, 1620-2020.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Manuscript referee: Presses: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Manchester University Press, Royal Historical Society, Historical Association, Macmillans, Unwin Hyman, SAGE, Frank Cass, Praeger, Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Ashgate, Bloomsbury, Yale University Press, Columbia University Press, Boydell & Brewer, Palgrave, Penguin/Random House.
Journals: Contemporary Modern History, Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, Arms Control, International Studies Perspectives, Contemporary European History, Intelligence and National Security, Global War Studies, International History Review, History, Britain & the World, Political Science Quarterly.
Research proposal referee: Canadian Department of National Defence (1991), Social Science Research Council of Canada (2001, 2003), Royal Military College of Canada (2000, 2003, 2005), Economic and Social Science Research Council, U.K. (2009), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2012); Irish Research Council (2018), Swiss National Science Foundation (2020).
Promotion Assessor: University of Liverpool (2001, 2003, 2005), University of Alberta (2001), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998), University of Birmingham (2003, 2006), Ben Gurion University (2004), Kings College, London (2006, 2007), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2006), University of Salford (2011), University of East Anglia (2011), London School of Ecnomics (2021).
Program Reviewer: Mediterranean Studies, King's College London (2002); College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University (2012).
External Examiner: Research Degrees: University of Salford (1988); University of Cambridge (1989); London School of Economics (1994, 1998); King’s College, London (1998)
Degree Programmes: King's College, London (BA & MA in Modern Greek Studies, 1993-97); Bolton Institute (MA in Modern History, 1997-98); University of Southampton (MA in American Studies, 1997-98); University of Durham, (MA in Politics and International Relations, 1997-98).
AWARDS and GRANTS 1979-80 Fletcher Fellow, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy 1979-80 Fletcher International Security Studies Research Fellowship Grant 1979 University of Oslo Summer Term Scholarship, Norway 1980-83 Overseas Research Students Scholarship 1981-83 Bane Fund Grant, Jesus College, Cambridge 1981 Cambridge Historical Society Grant 1983 Smuts Memorial Fund Travel Grant 1988 Faculty Research Grant, Birmingham 1990-91 Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow, United States Naval War College 1992 Hoover Presidential Library Fellow 1992 School of Social Sciences Research Grant 1992 Departmental Capital Grant for Research 1992 Wardrop Fund Grant, University of Oxford 2001 Smith Richardson Foundation
COMMITTEES: 1) UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (1984-98)
University Committees: 1987-90 Senior Common Room Committee
Faculty Committees: 1985-88 Board of Graduate Studies 1987-88 Faculty Research Committee 1992-94 Faculty Board 1992 Salaries and Promotions Committee 1995- 97 International Affairs Committee 1996-97 Promotions Committee
School Committees: 1992-94 Board of the School of Social Sciences 1994 Computer Equipment Sub-Committee 1997-98 School Executive Committee
Department Committees: 1985-89 Departmental Sub-Committee on Finance 1987-88 Departmental Sub-Committee on Planning 1992-94 Departmental Research Committee 1992-94 Departmental Graduate Studies Committee 1993-94 chair 1992-94 Planning and Resources Committee
Other: 1989-90 Modern History Seminar Committee 1992 University delegation to the Republic of Uzbekistan 1993 Committee on Training of multi-racial South African diplomatic service
2) BOSTON UNIVERSITY (1999-present)
University 2000-03 Metropolitan College Summer School Advisory Committee 2000-02 Advisory Board, Institute for Religion and World Affairs 2005-09 Steering Committee, Global Health Initiative 2008-10 University Research Council 2011-13 University Academic Promotion and Tenure Committee
College/School Committees 1999-01 Search Committee, Chair and Professor of History (external member) 2000-01 Internal Audit, Center of Energy and Environmental Studies 2019 New Building Committee, Pardee School 2020-present Chair, Academic Council, Pardee School
ADMINISTRATION
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (1984-98)
Graduate School of International Studies 1985-88 Deputy Director 1989-90, 93-94 Director
School of Historical Studies 1997-98 Deputy Head, School of Historical Studies
Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy 1998 Deputy Director
BOSTON UNIVERSITY (1998-present)
Department of International Relations 1998- 2010 Chair, Dept. of International Relations
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES University of Birmingham 1993 Mentorship 1997 Academic Staff Appraisal
Boston University 2017 At Risk for University and College Faculty and Staff
KEYNOTE LECTURES: 2005 ‘Britain in the Footprint of the Ottoman Empire’, Keynote lecture, British International History Conference, Cambridge, Sep. 2005
2009 ‘Great Britain and Armenia, from the Nineteenth Century to the First Republic. Keynote, 55th Annual Assembly, National Association of Armenian Studies and Research, 16 May 2009
2010 'Britain's Plans for a New Eastern Mediterranean Empire, 1916-23.' Keynote, ‘Re-thinking the Middle East: Values, Interests and Security Concerns in Western Policies Towards Iraq and the Wider Region, 1918-2010’, British Academy, London,18 March 2010.
2019 ‘Paris 1919 as a Catalyst for Innovation in International Relations’. Keynote, ‘The Frustrated Peace? The Versailles Treaty and its Political, Social and Economic Impact on Europe’, Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Global History of Charles University, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Prague, 27 Sep. 2019.
SEMINAR PAPERS and PUBLIC LECTURES
1986 'The Role of Political Intelligence: Diplomatic Planning for the Paris Peace Conference, 1919', Contemporary History Seminar, University of Salford, 26 Feb. 1986.
1987 'Great Britain and Greater Greece, 1916-1920', Centre for Byzantine Studies & Modern Greek, University of Birmingham, 7 May 1987; Oxford Modern Greek History Workshop, 19 Nov. 1987; Modern Greek History Seminar, University of Cambridge, 10 Nov. 1988.
1989 'Greek Foreign Policy since the Second World War', Standing Conference on Modern Greek Studies, 4 March 1989.
1989 'Greece and the Imperatives of Geopolitics, 1974-89', Conference on Contemporary Greece: The Hellenic Republic at Fifteen Years, Tufts University, 22 Apr. 1989.
1990 'The Peace Settlement and Europe's Future', College of Naval Command & Staff, 1 Oct. 1990.
1990 'Britain at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919', Research Seminar, Dept. of Strategy & Policy, Naval War College, 13 Dec. 1990.
1991 'The International System, 1871-1914', College of Naval Warfare, 17 Jan, 1991.
1991 'War Termination', College of Naval Warfare, 28 Jan. 1991.
1991 ‘The Zulu War', Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 7 Feb. 1991.
1992 'The Political Intelligence Department and the Reshaping of Eastern Europe', North American British Studies Conference, New York City, 4 April 1992.
1992 'The Heritage of the Nineteenth Century', Bar Convent Museum, York, 2 June 1992.
1992 'The Political Intelligence Department and British Foreign Policy,1917-45', Inaugural Pan- European Congress, European International Studies Association Conference, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 16 Sep. 1992
1992 'The New Europe Group and the Political Intelligence Department' , British International Studies Association Conference on International History, University of Leeds, 26 September 1992
1992 'The New Europe and the Balance of Power', Research Seminar, Department of Political Science & International Studies, University of Birmingham, 5 Nov. 1992.
1992 'The New Europe and the New Greece', Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College, London, 9 Nov. 1992
1992 Holy Wisdom and British Foreign Policy, 1918-22: The St Sophia Redemption Agitation', Centre for Byzantine Studies & Modern Greek, University of Birmingham, 19 Nov. 1992.
1993 'The Political Intelligence Department and the Origins of International History', Historians and Foreign Policy: Conference in Honour of DC Watt, Stevenson Professor of International History, London School of Economics, July 1993.
1993 'The Origins of the First World War', Historical Association, Birmingham, 15 Nov. 1993.
1994 'Venizelos and the New Europe', University of St. Andrews, 15 Feb. 1994.
1994 'Venizelos and the New Europe’, University of Aberdeen, 1994
1994 'Britain and the Home Front, 1919', German Historical Institute, University of California, Berkley, April 1994
1994 'Diplomacy and Intelligence', Centre for Political & Diplomatic Studies, Oxford, July 1994
1994 'The Origins of Summitry', Diplomacy Research Seminar, University of Birmingham, 2 Dec. 1994.
1995 'The British Diplomatic Service, 1919-39 – The Ambassadors: Attempted Politicisation and the Ambassadors’, European Consortium for Political Research, Paris, September 1995.
1995 'The British Official Mind & Europe, 1900-50', Royal Historical Society, London, 22 Sep. 1995.
1995 'The St. Sophia Agitation of 1919', University of Bristol, 8 Nov. 1995.
1996 'Holy Wisdom and British Foreign Policy at Constantinople', University of Glasgow, 20 Feb. 1996.
1996 'The Round Table and the New Europe', Lothian Foundation, London, 23 March 1996.
1996 'The Role of the State Visit', International Studies Association, San Diego CA, 18 April 1996.
1997 'The State Visit and International Relations', Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, University of Leicester, 21 Feb. 1997
1997 'The Inheritance of the 20th Century', Nottingham Trent University, 19 March 1997.
1997 ‘Churchill and Intelligence’, University of Cambridge, 11 July 1997.
1997 ‘Britain and the First Cold War’, Institute of Contemporary British History, London, July 1997.
1997 ‘The Heritage of the 19th Century’, Nottingham Trent University, Nov. 1997
1997 ‘The Politics of State Visits’, British International Studies Association, Leeds, December 1997.
1998 ‘The Perils of Protocol’, Mediterranean Diplomatic Academy, Malta, February 1998
1999 ‘Disarmament, Arms Control and Arms Reduction’, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, 19 March 1999
1999 ‘The Eastern Question: the Last Phase’, Public Record Office, London, 26 June 1999.
2001 ‘Iceland and the United States’ (US State Dept. Speaker), Symposium marking 50th Anniversary of Iceland-United States Alliance, Reykjavik, Iceland, 4 May 2001
2001 ‘Greek-Turkish Relations, 1945-2001’, 10th International Summer Seminar, Institute of International Relations, Hydra, Greece, 5 July 2001
2002 ‘The Great Powers and the Eastern Mediterannean World’, Falmouth Forum, Jan. 2002.
2002 ‘The Evolution of Diplomacy’ Summitry Conference, Diplomatic Studies Program, Boston University, 30 March 2002.
2002 ‘The Eastern Question: The Last Phase’, International History Seminar, Boston University, May 2002
2002 ‘Alliance in Transformation: The United States – European Alliance’Association for Western Co-operation (Samtök um Vestræna Samvinnu), Reykjavik, Iceland, 30 Nov. 2002.
2006 'Saving Holy Wisdom: Britain and St. Sophia', International Origins of the Preservation Movement, Boston University, April 2006.
2007 ‘Britain in the Footprint of the Ottoman Empire’, European Studies Seminar, Boston University, Sep. 2005
2007 ‘Versailles as a System’, From the Great War to the Peace Settlement, 1918-1919: A Retrospective Evaluation, Boston University, 23 March 2007.
2008 ‘British Plans for Succeeding the Ottoman Empire, 1918-22', Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 25 Apr. 2008.
2008 ‘Great Britain and the Re-emmergence of Armenian Statehood’, Conference on The Legacy of the First Armenian Republic, 1918-21, Boston University, 27 Sep. 2008
2009 ‘Saving St. Sophia: Britain, Nationalisms, Religion, and the Ottoman Empire’, From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the “Heritage” of Empire, 1820-1940, Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, King’s College, Cambridge, 22 Mar. 2009.
2009 ‘The World at the End of the Second World War’, International History Seminar, University of East Anglia, 23 Mar. 2009.
2010 ‘Religion and British Foreign Policy: the case of St. Sophia, 1821-1922’. British International History Conference, Oxford, 11 Sep. 2010
2010 ‘The United Kingdom, the United States and the First Gulf War’, Dept. of Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, 29 Nov. 2010.
2011 ‘The Paris Peace Conference, 1919’, International History Seminar, University of East Anglia, 28 Feb. 2011.
2011 ‘The Grand Alliance’, International History Seminar, University of East Anglia, 21 Mar. 2011
2012 ‘The Making of the Anglo-American Alliance: the unofficial sub-structure, 1820-1914’, Transatlantic Studies Association, Cork, 12 July 2012
2012 ‘Cultural Diplomacy in the Making of the Anglo-American alliance, 1820-1914’, Toward an Anglo-American Aesthetic, Boston University, 2 Nov. 2012
2013 ‘Arms Control Regimes: Historical Perspectives’, International Affairs and Diplomacy Seminar, University of Buckingham, London, 13 Mar. 2013
2014 ‘Arms Control Regimes: An Intellectual Genealogy’, International Affairs and Diplomacy Seminar, University of Buckingham, London, 10 Mar. 2014.
2014 ‘Arms Control, Arms Reduction, and Disarmament: The Historical Trajectory’, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 11 Mar. 2014
2014 ‘The British Monarchy and the Making of the Anglo-American Relationship’, Monarchies at War, Institute of Contemporary British History, King’s College, London, 27 May 2014
2014 ‘The Congregational Connection: Religious Commemorations and the Building of the Anglo- American Rapprochement’, Transatlantic Studies Association, University of Ghent, 8 July 2014.
2014 ‘The Middle East: Roots of Current Crises’, Remembering the Great War: A centenary Sypmposium, International History Institute, Boston University, 9 Oct. 2014
2015 ‘The Making of Anglo-American Relations’, International Affairs and Diplomacy Seminar, University of Buckingham, London.
2015 ‘The Middle East Peace Settlement after World War I: Roots of Current Conflicts’, Naval War College, 15 Apr. 2015
2015 ‘Royal Ambassadors – Monarchical Public Diplomacy and the United States’, “Winning their Trust and Affection”: Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in 19th-Century Europe’, St. Andrews, Scotland, 28 Aug. 2015.
2016 ‘Inventing Shared Memories: Anglo-American Soft Diplomacy, 1860-1917’, International History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, the Rothschild Archive, London, 8 Mar. 2016.
2016 ‘The Alliance that Shaped the World: The Anglo-American Alliance’, International Affairs and Diplomacy Seminar, University of Buckingham, The Athenæum, London, 9 Mar. 2016
2016 ‘Shadows of Empire: The Legacy of British Imperial Ambitions in the Greater Middle East’, Tufts Historical Review Presidential Lecture, 29 April 2016.
2017 'Greece, America, and the Early Challenges of Democracy', 4th Annual Lecture in Modern Philhellenism: Democracy in Crisis? Greece, Europe & America', Consulate-General of Greece and Boston University, 27 Mar. 2017.
2017 ‘The Global Context for the American Decision for War’, “Fighting Doughboys: Massachusetts Called to Arms in WWI” Commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the United States Declaration of War, Massachusetts World War I Centennial Commission, Boston, 6 Apr. 2017
2017 'Shadows of Empire: Legacy of British Imperial Ambitions or Failure of the Ottomans in the Middle East?', International History Institute, Boston University, 04 Oct. 2017.
2018 The Ambassadors: The Struggle in Britain to Maintain a Career Service, 1919-39. International History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London 6 Mar. 2018
2018 ‘Dissenter Diplomacy: Sub-diplomatic efforts in the making of the Anglo-American alliance, 1850-1918’, Dr. Williams's Library, London, 21 Mar. 2018
2018 ‘Moments of (De) Integration – Diplomacy and Innovation’, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of Montenegro, 5 July 2018.
2019 ‘Partition and Peacemaking after the Great War’, Partitioning Ireland, Boston College, 27 Apr. 2019.
2019 'Britain's Plans for a New Middle Eastern Empire', The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the End of the Great War', Boston University, 8 May 2019.
2019 ‘The Origins of World Heritage and the 1919 Paris Peace Conference’, at conference on ‘The Paris Peace Conference: The Challenge of a New World Order’, German Historical Institute, Paris, 8 June 2019; and Peace Making after the First Wold War, 1919-1923, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historians and the National Archives, London, 28 June 2019.
2019 ‘The Future of Europe’, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of Montenegro, 3 July 2019.
2019 ‘Britain’s Plans for a Middle Eastern Empire, 1916-1923: Origins of Current Crises’, Charles University, Prague, 1 Oct. 2019.
2020 ‘Reset?: The U.S. Presidential Election’, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of Montenegro, 9 Sep. 2020. [remotely]
LECTURES for COMMUNITY GROUPS
2016 'Naval Rivalry and the Road to the Great War', Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 18 Nov. 2016.
2017 ‘Naval Rivalry and the Road to the Great War’, The Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, 20 Apr. 2017
2017 ‘America’s Maritime Route to the Great War’, The Thursday Evening Club, 18 May 2017
2019 ‘Naval Rivalry and America’s Route to World War I’, NewBridge on the Charles, Dedham, Mass., 7 Feb. 2019.
2019 ‘The Age of Naval Rivalry’, The Wardroom Club, Boston, 17 Apr. 2019.
2019 'Brexit', NewBridge on the Charles, Dedham, Mass., 15 May 2019.
2019 'British Royal Diplomacy and America: A Special Relationship’, NewBridge on the Charles, Dedham, Mass., 11 Sep. 2019.
2020 ‘Great Britain in the Eastern Mediterranean from 1914 to 1922’, Institute of Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Emmanuel College, Boston, 12 Feb. 2020.
2020 ‘The U.S. Elections: What Just Happened and Implications for the Future’, King Edward’s School, Birmingham, 11 Nov. 2020. [remotely].
2021 ‘Boris, Brexit, & Beyond’, NewBridge on the Charles, Dedham, Mass., 11 Feb. 2021. [remotely]
CONFERENCE ORGANIZER
2001 Partition as a Soltution to Ethnic Conflict, Boston University, supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, Oct. 2001
2002 Summit Diplomacy, Boston University, in conjunction with the Diplomatic Studies Programme, 29-30 March 2002
2013 ‘The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations at Fifty’, with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 17 January 2013.
2019 ‘The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the End of the Great War’, Boston University, in conjunction with the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 8 May 2019.
PANEL CONVENOR, MODERATOR, COMMENTATOR
1992 Chair, 'The European Community and the Eastern Mediterranean', British International Studies Association Conference, Swansea, 16 December 1992.
1995 Co-organiser and chair, Diplomacy Section, European Consortium on Political Research, Paris, September 1995.
1997 Organiser and chair, Group on Diplomacy Section, British International Studies Association, Leeds, December 1997
1998 Chair and commentator, ‘Diplomacy in a Democratic Age’ New England Historical Association, Conneticut College, 17 Oct. 1998.
1999 Moderator, ‘Modern Diplomacy’ International Studies Association, Washington, DC, 17 Feb. 1998.
1999 Moderator, ‘Rethinking the Cold War’, Historical Society, Boston, 29 May 1999.
1999 Chair, ‘U.S. Interests’ U.S. National Strategy and the Future of Land Forces in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, Center for International Relations, Boston University, and the Strategic Institute of the U.S. Army War College, Boston, 8 June 1999.
2002 Chair and commentator, ‘Critical Approaches to Diplomacy’ International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 2002.
2004 Chair and commentator, ‘Coalitions and Alliances at War, 1900–41’ American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 9 Jan. 2004
2007 Speaker, Symposium on 'The Future of Iraq: U.S. Exit Staregies' Edward R. Murrow Center, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 21 Feb. 2007
2009 Discussant, ‘Discourse and Great Power Foreign Policy 1880-1925’ Middle East Studies Association, Boston, 24 Nov. 2009
2010 Panel Commentator, ‘The Meaning of the 2010 British General Election’ Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 11 May 2010
2014 Introduction, exhibition, ‘Ardent For Some Desperate Glory: Remembering the First World War’ Howard Gotleib Archival Research Center, Boston University, 28 Sep. 2014
2015 Panel Commentator, ‘All Right on The Night? The British Election Results’ Pardee School of Global Studies, 12 May 2015
2016 Speaker, 'The World in Flux' Pardee School of Global Studies, Alumni Weekend, 1 Oct. 2016
2016 Chair, 'Walls in History' International Education Week, Boston University, 14 Nov. 2016
2017 Co-Chair, ‘Brexit: From Fantasy/Nightmare to Hard Bargaining: A Discussion with Ed Balls’ Contemporary Europe Study Group, Harvard University, 24 Apr. 2017
2017 Discussant, 'The 2017 Elections in Europe' 'Beyond the Headlines' series, Pardee School of Global Studies, 25 Apr. 2017
2017 Chair, ‘Non-Official Cover’, Intelligence Studies Seminar Series, Pardee School of Global Studies, 18 Oct. 2017
2018 Commentator, ‘Winston S. Churchill on Democracy and Its Discontents’ American Political Science Association, Boston, 31 Aug. 2018.
2019 Moderator, ‘Justice and Espionage’ Howard Gotleib Archival Research Center, Boston University, 26 Mar. 2019.
2019 Discussant, ‘Brexit: What Now for the UK, EU and the World?’ 'Beyond the Headlines' series, Pardee School of Global Studies, 2 Apr. 2019
2019 Discussant, 'NATO Intervention in Yugolsavia 1999: Just a War or a Just War?' 'Beyond the Headlines' series, Pardee School of Global Studies, 8 Apr. 2019
2019 Discussant, 'Asia in Transition: 1919-2019'. Conference, 'Asia in Transition, 1919-2019'. Boston University Centre for the Study of Asia, 30 Apr. 2019.
2020 Discussant, ‘Brexit: What Now? Law, Politics & Policy Perspectives’ Center for the Study of Europe, Boston University, 4 March 2020.
2020 Discussant, ‘How the World Looks at the American Election’ 'Beyond the Headlines' series, Pardee School of Global Studies, 13 Nov. 2020. [remotely]
2021 Discussant, ‘The Coming Storm: Another Great Power War?’ International History Insitute, Boston University, 19 Feb. 2021. [remotely]
BRIEFINGS 2001-03 chair and organizer, Executive Briefings on Current International Affairs, Boston University with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
MEDIA INTERVIEWS: AP, BBC, Bloomberg, Boston Globe, China Daily Europe (China), El Mercurio (Chile), French Morning, Globe & Mail (Canada), La Presse (Canada), La Razón (Spain), Los Angeles Times, Morgunblađiđ (Iceland); Pravda (Slovakia), Semana (Colombia), Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), USA Today, Voice of America, Washington Post, International Business Times, Television Prva (TV First, Montenegro). In Countdown zum Zweiten Weltkrieg for ZDF (German Public Television).