DR. CATHAL J. NOLAN
International History Institute, Boston University Phone: (617) 353-1165 Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS
2020-> Professor of History, Boston University 2018→ Director, International History Institute, Boston University
1999→ Associate Professor of History, Boston University 1999-2017 Executive Director, International History Institute
1995-99 Assistant to the President, Boston University Research Associate Professor, International Relations, Boston University
1991-95 Assistant Professor, International Relations, University of British Columbia Research Associate, Institute of International Relations, University of British Columbia, funded (1993-1995), Cooperative Security Program, Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada
1990-91 Assistant Professor, International Relations, Miami University 1989-90 Assistant Professor, International Relations, St. Francis Xavier University
1985-86 External Consultant, Policy Development and Research Division, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Government of Canada, Ottawa. Researched and wrote two “For the Minister” reports on human rights issues in development aid programs (classified).
1982-83 Researcher & Contract Writer, Wandel Education Ltd., Toronto. Wrote 147p. internal ms. on “The Influence of Islamic Higher Learning on Evolution of the Early Modern University”
1978-80 Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO): development aid worker, Kazaure, Kano State, Nigeria.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. International History & International Relations: University of Toronto, 1989. Minor Field: Political Philosophy. Language: French. Thesis: Principled Diplomacy: National Security and the Idea of Liberty in Democratic Diplomacy. Supervisor: Jean Smith. External: Innis Claude
Diploma in International Human Rights, Canadian Human Rights Foundation, 1984
M.A. History: University of Toronto, 1982. Thesis: British Statecraft and International Intervention in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970. Supervisor: Robert Spencer
B.A. History: University of Alberta, 1978. Minors in English and Philosophy.
Research Grants
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts (3 grants) Consortium for the Study of Intelligence Connaught Foundation Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation McCormack-Tribune Foundation (3 grants) Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (4 grants) Florence Gould Foundation Center for International Studies, Toronto Cooperative Security Program (2 grants), DFA Canada Barton Research Fellowship in Peace and Security, DFA, Canada Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Humanities and Social Science Research Grant, Canada Boston University (2 internal grants) Miami University (2 internal grants) St. Francis Xavier University Associates of the University of Toronto
Fellowships
2008-09 Marion Jasper Whiting Foundation, Normandy Battlefields project 2004-05 Academic Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies 1993-95 Barton Fellowship in Peace and Security Studies, Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada 1986-88 Government of Ontario Doctoral Fellowship 1984-85 Justice Harry Batshaw Fellowship in Human Rights, Canadian Human Rights Foundation 1983-86 University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship 1974-78 Province of Alberta & City of Edmonton Scholarships
RESEARCH AWARDS
2020 Short list: MHM Book of the Year (UK) for The Allure of Battle (Oxford UP, 2017). Military History Matters https://www.military-history.org
2019 Distinguished Book Award, for The Allure of Battle (Oxford UP, 2017). War on the Rocks “recognizes a book that we view as essential for the professional development of national security professionals.” First ever awardee. https://warontherocks.com/category/distinguished-book-award/
2018 Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History. Gilder-Lehrman Institute at the New York Historical Society. For the Allure of Battle (Oxford UP, 2017). The prize “recognizes the best book on military history in the English-speaking world distinguished by its scholarship, its contribution to the literature, and its appeal to both a general and an academic audience.” https://www.gilderlehrman.org/node/300732
2002 Outstanding Academic Reference Work: Encyclopedia of International Relations, 4 vols. Awarded by Choice, journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Also selected as: “Editor’s Choice” Library Journal & “Editor’s Choice” Booklist (American Library Association).
1998 Outstanding Academic Book: Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775, a Choice selection by the Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association
TEACHING AWARDS
2006 Outstanding Teaching Award, Honors Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University 1991 Outstanding Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Miami University
BIOGRAPHICAL RECOGNITIONS
2008–> American Academy of Religion 2004–> Who’s Who In American Education, Marquis edition 2003–> Who’s Who In America, Marquis edition 2000–> Directory of American Scholars 1998–> Contemporary Authors
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2021 Smithsonian Journeys Expert, Normandy Tour, May 29-June 6, 2021
2020-> Military History Adviser, American Heritage Museum
2018-20 Advisory Board Anne K. Brown Collection in Military History, Brown University 2012→ Historical Adviser Military history issues in NOVA series on PBS (WGBH Boston) 2011 Historical Adviser Independent documentary: No Equal: Women at War 2012 Editorial Board Strategic Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Afghanistan
2011 Technical Adviser Foreign Affairs Institutional Reform (FAIR), United States Agency for International Development: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabul, Afghanistan
2009-12 Editor-in-Chief International Relations, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford University Press 2004-10 Board of Advisers International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom, Bar-Ilan University 2004 Board of Advisers “New Rules of War” research project, Naval War College and Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
2006-08 Historical Adviser Independent documentary: The Edge of Silence: Hate in the 20th Century 2004-06 Historical Adviser Docere Studios documentary: “Invasions!”
External Tenure reviewer: History, Washington State University (1998) International Relations, Bar-Ilan University, Israel (2005) History, University of Oklahoma (2010)
External Department reviewer: Political Science, University of British Columbia at Kelowna (2001)
Ms. reviewer: Oxford University Press; Review of International Studies; Revue Études Internationales; Diplomacy and Statecraft; Harper-Collins; Greenwood / Praeger; Westview Press; Longman; Wadsworth- Thomson International; University of Akron Press; Routledge; Palgrave Macmillan; Pickering & Chatto
Book reviewer: American Journal of Legal History; American Political Science Review; Current History; Diplomacy & Statecraft; Ethics and International Affairs; History: Review of New Books; International History Review; Perspectives on Political Science; Political Science Quarterly; Presidential Studies Quarterly; Michigan War Studies Review; Human Rights Quarterly
Member/past member: National World War II Museum; American Heritage Museum; Military Historical Society of Massachusetts; Society for Military History; Planetary Society; Historical Society; Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs; Academic Council on the United Nations System; Center for the Study of the Presidency; American Historical Association; International Studies Association; Society Historians of American Foreign Relations; U.S. Business and Industrial Council, American Interests Lecturer; Global Water Brigades; Global Public Health Brigades, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Canadian University Service Overseas
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
IHI Director 2018--> IHI Executive Director 1999-2017 MET History Director 2015–2020 CAS Faculty Adviser 2012–2015 Faculty Adviser, Undergraduate History Association, 2007-2015 Faculty Adviser, Global Water Brigades, 2009-2015 “Excellence in Student Activities Award: Global Initiatives and Philanthropy” (2013); led three 10-day work trips to remote, rural Honduras Faculty Adviser, Global Public Health Brigades, 2009-2012; led two work trips to rural Honduras Faculty Adviser, Sigma Alpha Lambda BU Chapter 2008–2014 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, 2009 International History Track adviser, Department of History, 2006–2010 Work for Distinction, Honors Program 2006 Boston University Honours Programme at the University of Oxford 2005 Department of History, Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2003 Advisory Board, Center for Teaching Excellence, 2001-2002 University Board on Student Conduct, 1999-2003 CAS Summer Advising Services: 2000–2003; 2008; 2013-2014
TEACHING
Graduate Courses: World War II: Causes, Course, and Consequences; History of the International System; U.S. Diplomatic History; History of American Foreign Policy; American Presidency; Political Biography: Great Tyrants of the Modern Era; Ethics in International Relations; International Relations Theory.
Undergraduate Courses: World War I; Myths of War; War in Literature and Film; Total War: 1914-1945; History of War; The American Military Tradition; Island at War (London); History of Diplomacy; Europe Since 1870; 20th Century American Foreign Policy; Human Rights in World Politics; International Organizations; Introduction to International Relations; Politics of Western Europe Since 1945.
Universities where courses taught: Boston University (Boston and London campuses), University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, Simon Fraser, Miami University, St. Francis Xavier
Invited lectures, venues: American Heritage Museum New York Military Affairs Symposium New York Historical Society Heritage Series, Chautauqua Institution Military Historical Society of Massachusetts National Museum of World War II (New Orleans, 2X) International Museum of WWII (Natick, MA) National Intelligence University Alumni Association (New England) Center for Strategic Studies (MoFA), Kabul, Afghanistan Anne K. Brown Collection in Military History, Brown University U.S. Coast Guard Academy Marine Corps University, Quantico U.S. Army Combined Arms Center (Fort Leavenworth) Asian Studies, Hebrew University, Israel Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York Center for Military and Diplomatic History Foreign Policy Initiative, Washington D.C. Japan-America Society, Portsmouth NH United States Military Academy (West Point) Historical Society, Providence College Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (Buenos Aires) Marquette University Miami University St. Francis Xavier University University of British Columbia Brigham Young University, London campus Boston University, London campus Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young (Provo) Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Vancouver United Nations Association, Vancouver United Nations Association, Toronto Boston ROTC Consortium (3X) World Affairs Forum, Boston (3X) Primary Source, Boston (2X) Graduate Students
2018 Sarah Westwood (second reader), Military Culture in Senegambia and the Origins of the Tirailleur Sénégalais Army, 1750-1910
Elana Griggio, Human Rights and Multilevel Governance of Genocide, University of Padova and Boston University (BU supervisor, MA thesis).
2016→ Hannah Methany, Widows, Orphans, and Pensions in post-Civil War Era (second reader)
2015-18 Joint postdoc supervisor, Dr. Caroline D’Amours, Royal Military College of Canada and IHI. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et Culture (FRQSC) (September 2015 to August 2017): “A Quebec Region in Turmoil: Bas-Saint-Laurent Participation in the Second World War.”
2015 Danny Orbach. History, Harvard University. External Reader/Examiner in Military History: “Culture of Disobedience: Rebellion and Disobedience in the Japanese Officer Corps, 1853-1945.”
2010 Scott Hough, Masters thesis, supervisor
2009 Ron Lamothe (third reader), Slaves of Fortune: Sudanese Soldiers and the River War, 1896-98.
2006 Christopher Lamonica, Political Science. Second reader: The Politics of Strengthening Local Government Institutions in Zambia.
2002 Richard Wiggers, History, Georgetown University. External Reader: Allied War Crimes in WWII.
1999→ Reader/Examiner/or TF at BU (HI, IR, PO): David Atkinson, Zbysek Brezina, Francois Lalonde, Kateryn Lamontagne; Scott Hough; Susan Walker; Sijin Cheng; Aaron Hiltner; Mark Kukis; Jeanna Kinnebrew; Sean Case; Patrick Brown; Tom Sojka, Charley Binkow
Informal but continued close teaching of former students: Marvin Fried (King’s); Erik Rundquist (King’s); Stefano Marcuzzi (Oxford). BU directed study in military history for Mark Episkopos, Ryan Shaver, Hannah Methany, Kathryn Lamontagne, Lt. Col. Erik Rundquist, National Defense Fellow; others. Multiple 1st or 2nd reader of MA theses in International History/Relations, Boston University
BOOKS
2022 Author: Myths of War, forthcoming, Oxford University Press.
2021 Author: Decency: Moral Action in Wartime, forthcoming, Oxford University Press.
2017 Author: The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost. Oxford University Press, February 2017. Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History (2018); Distinguished Book Award, WOTR (2019); finalist for Book of the Year Award, Military History Matters (UK, 2020)
2016 Editor: Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of International Affairs, 3rd edition. Praeger, 2015
2010 Author: Concise Encyclopedia of World War II, 2 Volumes, 1,322p. Greenwood/ABC-Clio 2010.
2008 Author: Wars of the Age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715, 607p. Greenwood/ABC-Clio 2008. 2007 Co-editor: U.S. Presidents & Foreign Policy, with Carl Hodge. ABC-Clio, 2007. 474 pages
2006 Author: Age of the Wars of Religion, 1000-1650, 2 Volumes, 1,048p. Greenwood 2006. Reviewed in the Journal of Military History as the “new standard reference work in the field.”
2004 Editor: Power and Responsibility in World Affairs: Reformation versus Transformation, Praeger, 2004.
Editor: Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of International Affairs, 2nd ed. Praeger, 2004
2002 Author: Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations, 4 Volumes, 2000+ pages. Greenwood 2002. Choice selection as “outstanding scholarly work.”
1999 Author: Maailma Poliitika Leksikon, Olion (Tallinn), 1999. Estonian translation of Longman Guide.
1997 Editor: Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775, Greenwood, 1997.
1995 Editor: Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of International Affairs. Praeger, 1995.
1995 Author: Longman Guide to World Affairs, Longman, 1995.
1993 Author: Principled Diplomacy: Security and Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy, Greenwood, 1993 (originally, doctoral diss. monograph).
1992 Co-editor: Shepherd of Democracy? America and Germany in the 20th Century. Greenwood, 1992.
Founding book series editor: Humanistic Perspectives on International Relations, Praeger (1998-2006). Founding book series editor: International History, Praeger (1999-2004). With W. R Keylor & Erik Goldstein Founding editor and Editor-in Chief to 2012: International Relations, Oxford Bibliographies Online
Refereed Articles / Book Chapters
2022 Forthcoming: “The Allure of War for Japanese Policy-Makers, 1935-1941,” in Danny Orbach editor, Militarism in the Modern World (Routledge, 2021).
2015 Chapter: “‘Bodyguard of Lies’: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Defensible Deceit in WWII,” in Cathal J. Nolan, editor, Ethics and Statecraft, 3rd edition (New York: Praeger, 2015).
2014 Author: “War,” 2nd edition, IR Online Bibliography, Oxford University Press, 2014. Author: “Battle,” 2nd edition, IR Online Bibliography, Oxford University Press, 2014.
2011 Author: “War,” IR Bibliography, Oxford University Press, 2011. Author: “Battle,” IR Bibliography, Oxford University Press, 2011. Author: “Human Rights,” IR Bibliography, Oxford University Press, 2011.
2010 Article: “The German Invasion of Poland (September 1–October 5, 1939),” in Gordon Martel, editor, The Encyclopedia of War (London: Blackwell, 2010).
Article: “Abraham Lincoln as War Leader,” in Gordon Martel, editor, The Encyclopedia of War (London: Blackwell, 2010).
2009 Chapter: “Great Powers and International Security,” in William Bain, ed., The Empire of Security and the Safety of the People, 2nd edition (Routledge: Milton Park, Oxon 2009).
2006 Chapter: “Great Powers and International Security,” in William Bain, ed., The Empire of Security and the Safety of the People (Routledge: Milton Park, Oxon 2006).
2005 Chapter: "Learning to Lead: TR, Wilson, and Emergence of the United States as a World Power,” in Charles Neu and William Tilchin, eds., Setting the 20th Century Stage. (Praeger: Westport CT: 2005).
2004 Chapter: “‘Bodyguard of Lies’: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Defensible Deceit in WWII,” in Ethics and Statecraft, 2nd edition, pp.35-58 (revised and expanded chapter).
Chapter: “The Evolution of Great Power Rights and Responsibilities,” in Cathal J. Nolan, Power and Responsibility in World Affairs: pp.15-38.
2003 Chapter: “‘Healthy Bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier’: NATO and the Humanitarian Principle,” in Carl Hodge, ed., NATO for a New Century (Praeger: Westport, CT: 2003): pp.1-22.
1999 Chapter: “The OSCE: Non-Military Dimensions of Cooperative Security in Europe,” in Carl C. Hodge, ed., Redefining European Security (Garland: New York, 1999): pp.299-323.
1995 Chapter: “‘Bodyguard of Lies’: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Defensible Deceit in WWII,” in Ethics and Statecraft, 1st edition (1995), pp.57-74.
1993 Article: “Detachment from Despotism: U.S. Responses to Tsarism, 1776-1865,” Review of International Studies, Vol. 19 (October 1993): pp.349-368.
1992 Article: “The United States and Tsarist Anti-Semitism, 1865-1914,” Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 3/3 (November 1992): pp.438-467.
Chapter: “‘As Powerful as We Are’ —From the Morgenthau Plan to Marshall Aid,” in Shepherd of Democracy, pp.55-72. Co-authored with Carl C. Hodge.
Article: “The Last Hurrah of Conservative Isolationism? Eisenhower, Congress and the Bricker Amendment,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 22/2 (Spring 1992): pp.337-349.
1991 Article: “Reluctant Liberal: Canada, Human Rights, and the United Nations: 1944-65,” Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 2/3 (November 1991): pp.281-305.
Article: “La liberté est-elle divisible? Comment rapprocher les concepts de mission et de sécurité dans la politque étrangère américane,” Études Internationales, Vol. 22/3 (September 1991): pp.509-531.
1990 Article: “Americans in the Gulag: Detention of U.S. Citizens by Russia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1944-1949,” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 25/4 (October 1990): pp.523-545.
1989 Article: “Road to the Charter: America, Liberty, and the Founding of the United Nations,” Paradigms: Kent Journal of International Relations, Vol. 3/1 now Global Society (Fall/Winter 1989): pp.24-37.
1988 Chapter: “The United Nations Human Rights Committee,” in Robert Matthews and Cranford Pratt eds., Human Rights in Canada’s Foreign Policy (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1988): pp.101- 114 and pp.330-34. 1985 Article: “The Influence of Parliament on Human Rights in Canadian Foreign Policy, “ Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 7/3 (August 1985): pp.373-390.
Other Scholarly Works
2020 Remembering Sir Michael Howard: “The Pity of War: Last Refuge from ‘War is Fun’ Strategists,” Texas National Security Review, February 2020. https://tnsr.org/roundtable/roundtable-remembering- sir-michael-howard-1922-2019/
2018 Chapter for AP History: “The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902,” in Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness: A History of the American Experiment, Arlington, VA: Bill of Rights Institute, 2018.
Chapter for AP History: “The Panama Canal,” in Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness: A History of the American Experiment, Arlington, VA: Bill of Rights Institute, 2018.
2010-12 Founding Editor & Editor-in-Chief, International Relations: www.oxfordbibliographies.com Commissioned, edited, oversaw referee process and publication of more than 150 articles on international relations, diplomacy, international history, and military history.
2010 Author: “Foreword,” to Michael Kort, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Facts on File, 2010.
2008 Historical Simulation: Crisis in the Balkans: “Russia,” commissioned by University of Dundee.
2006 Encyclopedia entries: “Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865),” and “James Buchanan (1857-1861),” in Encyclopedia of U.S. Presidents & Foreign Policy, co-edited with Carl C. Hodge. ABC-Clio (2006).
2002: Review essay: “War and Virtue,” William Lee Miller’s, Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography, in Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 16 (2002).
2001 Editor, conference report: The Angle of Vision: From Journalism to History, Cantigny Conference Series, Robert R. McCormick-Tribune Foundation, Chicago: 2001. 143pp.
1998 Review essay: “The Middle of History: Liberalism and International Relations,” Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 12 (1998): pp. 208-212.
Encyclopedia entry: “Central Intelligence Agency,” Encyclopedia of Civil Rights, Salem, 1998.
1997 Encyclopedia entry: “Pan-Africanism,” in Encyclopedia of Propaganda, Salem, 1998.
1996 Encyclopedia entries: “Beijing Hosts U.N. Fourth World Conference on Woman,” “The United States and Vietnam Improve Relations,” “The Non-Aligned Movement Meets in Jakarta, September 1992,” in A. J. Sobczak, ed., The Twentieth Century: Great Events From History, Salem, 1996: pp. 1775- 1777; pp. 1643-1645; pp. 1514-1516.
Encyclopedia entries: “Espionage,” and “McCarthyism,” in Encyclopedia of American Justice, Salem, 1996: pp. 299-302, pp. 481-84.
1995 Occasional paper: “The Evolution of Cooperative Security: Canada and the Human Dimension of the CSCE, 1973-1994.” Institute of International Relations, Liu Centre for International Relations, Occasional Paper Series, #10 (April, 1995). Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada.
1993 Review essay: “The United States, Moral Norms, and Governing Ideas in World Politics,” Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 7 (April 1993): pp. 223-239.
1992 Review essay: “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 22/4 (Fall 1992): pp. 826-831.
Encyclopedia entries: “Soviet Jews Demand Cultural and Religious Rights,” and “The United Nations Adopts its Charter,” in Great Events From History: Human Rights, Salem, 1992: 657-661; 1177-1181.
1987 Article: “The United Nations: A Human Rights Advisory Service?” International Perspectives (March/April 1987): pp. 19-21.
1983 Ms. “The Influence of Islamic Higher Learning on the Evolution of the Early Modern University” 147p.
Book Reviews
2020 Elizabeth Varon, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War for Michigan War Studies Review, forthcoming 2020
2019 Rolf-Dieter Muller, Hitler’s Wehrmacht, 1935-1945. Michigan War Studies Review.
2015 David Motadel, Islam and Nazi Germany's War. Michigan War Studies Review.
The Great War Seen from the Air: In Flanders Fields, 1914–1918, Birger Stichelbaut and Piet Chielens (2015). Michigan War Studies Review.
2014 Geoffrey Wawro, A Mad Catastrophe: the Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire (2014) Michigan War Studies Review.
James Dawes, Evil Men (2013). Michigan War Studies Review.
Michael S. Neiberg, Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (2011). Michigan War Studies Review.
2012 Richard Hall, Balkan Breakthrough: Battle of Dobro Pole, 1918 (2012). International History Review.
Tammy C. Proctor, Civilians in a World at War, (2012). International History Review.
Vincent P. O'Hara, et al. editors. On Seas Contested: The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War. (2010). Michigan War Studies Review.
Michael Burleigh, Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II (2010). Ethics and International Affairs.
2011 Jeffrey Record, A War it was Always Going to Lose: Why Japan Attacked America in 1941 (2011). Michigan War Studies Review.
Michael L. Gross, Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict (2010). Michigan War Studies Review.
2001 Bernard Finel and Kristin M. Lord, eds. Power and Conflict in the Age of Transparency (2000). International History Review.
K. Nabulsi, Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance, and the Law (2000) International History Review.
2000 Thomas Pangle and Peter Ahrensdorf, Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace, International History Review.
1998 Dennis J. Dunn, Caught Between Roosevelt and Stalin: America’s Ambassadors to Moscow, Political Science Quarterly (Winter 1998-99), Vol. 113 (No. 4): pp. 710-712.
1995 William Korey, The Promises We Keep: Human Rights, the Helsinki Process, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Current History (January, 1995): p. 42.
1993 Thomas A. Schwartz, America’s Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany. Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 23/3 (Summer 1993): pp. 598-600.
Daniel Warner, An Ethic of Responsibility in International Relations. Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 22/3 (Summer 1993): p. 138.
1992 Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 21/1 (Fall 1992): p. 10.
Raymond Tanter, Who’s at the Helm? Lessons of Lebanon. American Political Science Review, Vol. 86/3 (June 1992): pp. 952-53.
1991 Natalie Kaufman, Human Rights Treaties and the Senate. American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 35/3 (July 1991): pp. 338-40.
Public Media
Interview: "Talking History: A challenge to conventional military history in Allure of Battle,” Newstalk (Ireland) September 12, 2019 https://www.newstalk.com/
Invited brief: “The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars have been Won and Lost” The Ambassador’s Brief https://bit.ly/2YcpBwA
Profile interview: “Busting the Myth of Genius Generals,” published across the McClatchy Newspaper Group, February 3, 2019. Interview and profile.
Interview: “Boeing: la "relación especial" entre el gobierno de Trump y el gigante aeronáutico” BBC Mundo Jan. 4, 2019
Interview: “Por qué Estados Unidos no celebra grandes desfiles militares y qué mensaje enviaría al mundo si Donald Trump organiza uno en Washington?” BBC Mundo, March 10, 2018
C-Span broadcast: “1944: The Paris and Warsaw Uprisings,” National World War II Museum, New Orleans, August 22, 2019 https://www.c-span.org/video/?463506-1/1944-paris-warsaw-uprisings
C-Span broadcast: “Assessing Victory and Defeat,” International Conference on World War II, New Orleans. November 2018 https://www.c-span.org/video/?454677-3/assessing-victory-defeat
Podcast: Nolan on The Allure of Battle, Dangerous History May 21, 2019 http://profcj.org/ep182/
Podcast: The Allure of Battle, The Dead Prussian (Australia) July 20, 2019
Podcast: The Allure of Battle, East-West Institute, 2019 https://www.eastwest.ngo/podcast
Podcast: The Allure of Battle, New Books Network, 2019 https://newbooksnetwork.com
Podcast: Gilder Lehrman Institute. “Historian Nolan interviewed by Andrew Roberts,” at the New York Historical Society, November 26, 2018
Podcast: Allure of Battle, Historically Thinking, https://historicallythinking.org/ 2018
Podcast: Historians, https://soundcloud.com/user-94991503/the-historians-episode-21/s-Ly5iu 2018
Interview: “Online Death Records tell Stories of Those Who Sacrificed,” May 26, 2019. Interview on war deaths in WWII, Patriot Ledger, MA https://www.patriotledger.com/news/20190526/online- death-records-tell-stories-of-those-who-sacrificed
Interview: “Hollywood Goes to War,” The Chautauquan Daily, August 21, 2018
Interview: “Military Spending, Aerospace and Defense Workers,” New York Times, July 16, 2018
Interview: Why War? Jay Talking, WBZ Boston News Radio, April 2017
Interview: “The Allure of Battle,” Arts & Sciences Magazine, BU. Fall 2017
Invited online article: “In Praise of Attrition,” Aeon https://aeon.co/ 2017
Historical Consultant: Lone Wolf (bomber), in the NOVA series on PBS (WGBH Boston), 2018 Historical Consultant: On camera. Dunkirk, in the NOVA series on PBS (WGBH Boston), 2018 Historical Consultant: Hitler’s Last Battle, in the NOVA series on PBS (WGBH Boston) 2017 Historical Consultant: “Messines Trench” World War I documentary, NOVA (WGBH Boston) 2016 Historical Consultant: “D-Day: Operations,” documentary film, NOVA (WGBH Boston), 2015 Historical Consultant: “Secrets of WWI” photographic exhibition on hidden cave art 2011 Historical Consultant: “No Equal: American Women at War” documentary film 2010-2012 Historical Consultant: Candor Group, “Twisted History” proposal to HC1, December 2010 Interview: “Boston’s WWII Victory Gardens,” Daily Free Press, September 21, 2009 Interview: “Churchill and Torture in WWII,” O’Reilly Factor (May 7, 2009) Historical Consultant: The Edge of Silence, religious hate in 20th century (2006–2008) Historical Consultant: “Invasion!” historical documentary by Docere Digital Studios 2005-2006 Columnist: Natick Bulletin and Tab, 2001–2003: historical events in local context TVI Tel Aviv: “Bush’s Mid-East Policy and its Effects on Israel,” TV1 Tel Aviv, May 21, 2003 Radio interview: “Canadian-American Relations and the Iraq War,” Radio Factor April 18, 2003 Radio Interview: “War in Iraq,” O’Reilly Factor, April 18, 2003 Print Interview: “Pearl Harbor” Daily Free Press, December 7, 2001 Radio interview: “Military Tribunals,” Radio Free Europe, October 2001 Interview. “Brent Scowcroft Keynote at Gulf War Conference,” BU Bridge, February 2001 Interview: Robert R. McCormick-Tribune Foundation Newsletter, December 1999
IHI Events Organized & Scholarly Papers Presented
2020 Seminar: George A. Lincoln and the Rise of the Military Intellectual, Sean Case, American Studies Seminar: Thorn in the Eagle's Side: Six American Presidents & Charles de Gaulle, William Keylor, IHI Symposium: 75th Anniversary of the Last Days of WWII, Military Historical Society of MA and American Heritage Museum, July 23, 2020
Fall term: TBA
2019 Lecture: The Troubles: The Catholic Church in Northern Ireland, 1968-1998 Margaret Scull, NUI Lecture: American Revolutionary War: The French Connection, Brendan McConville, History Seminar: The Italo-Ethiopian War and the Saga of John Robinson, 1935-1936, David Mayers, BU Seminar: The Unfortunate War, Spyros Katsoulas, Panteion University, Athens Seminar: Waiting for Godot (Again): Nelson Rockefeller and National Security, Andrew David, IHI Seminar: Psychology of Russian Political Culture, Anna Geifman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Panel: The Viêtnam War Reexamined, Michael Kort & Michael Holm, CGS, & Cathal J. Nolan, IHI
Symposium: A New Deal for the World? With the National WWII Museum, Boston, December 2019 Symposium: Revolt: Paris and Warsaw, 1944, National WWII Museum, New Orleans, August 22, 2019 Symposium: Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (with Pardee), Erik Goldstein, IHI & Pardee Eighth Annual Graduate Student Conference: Advancing Human Progress (with Pardee)
2018 IHI events: Project Paperclip: Nazi Scientists and the Space Race; Modern War and Complexity; Anti-Submarine Warfare in the Mediterranean in WWI; Once and Future War.
2017 IHI events: The Allure of Battle; Beyond Samosas: Indian Food in Historical Perspective; Coming of Age in the Empire: Canada and Conscription in WWII; Shadows of Empire: Legacy of British Imperial Ambitions or Failure of Ottoman Imperial Traditions? Framers’ Coup: The Making of the U.S. Constitution; How 1917 Changed the World: Commemorating the American Entry into the Great War (IHI & French Consulate); The Plots Against Hitler; Human Rights and Violent Internal Conflict; Women Warriors: Female Fighters in the Red Army and Navy, 1942-1945; The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973;
The Allure of Battle, Anne K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University (March 2017); The Allure of Battle, History Faculty, Marine Corps University, Quantico VA (May 2017)
2016 IHI events: Soldier’s Bread: Red Army Food, 1941-1945; The Plots Against Hitler; Dinner and Diplomacy: Dean Acheson; JRR Tolkien and the Great War; Walls in History; Music of War; China and Britain: War and Commerce in the Age of Opium;
2015 IHI Symposium: Gallipoli: The Road from War to Peace, with Turkish Consulate, New Zealand Consulate, and Australia-American Society, April 22, 2015
IHI Symposium: Can We Live with a Nuclear Iran? March 24, 2015
Guests: Legacy of Genocide in Armenia and Europe; Global Development, Peace & Security; Where is the Middle East Going? Science goes to War: Technology, Biplanes, and War Glamour; Red Samurai: The True Story Behind the Masks; Global Conversations: India and Proliferation
2014 Paper: “Military Myths of WWI,” The Great War in Memory and Music, Boston, December 11.
IHI Symposium: “The Great War in Memory and Music,” Boston, December 11.
IHI Symposium: “Counter-Insurgency: Reflections on a Year in Afghanistan,” Boston, February 28.
Seminars: The Arab Spring: An Israeli Perspective; Catastrophe 1914: Disaster or Design? Responding to Russia in Eastern Europe; Apocalyptic and Gratuitous Hatreds: Revival of Anti-Semitism; Demystifying Pearl Harbor; Legacy of the Cold War; France and the Origins of the United Nations, 1944; Dead Faces: J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Sergei Lukenyenko: War and Terrorism in Fantasy Literature
2013 IHI Symposium: “Six Chinese Historians in Search of Mao,” Boston, November 21.
Concert: Turkish Mystic Music, Poetry, and Images
Guests: Rush to Judgment: Bush & the War on Terror; Remaking Identities God, Nation, and Race in World History; Africa in World History; Counter-Insurgency: Reflections on a Year in Afghanistan;
Paper: “Congress, Women, and the Military,” Women in the U.S. Military, Newton Free Library, May 21.
2012 IHI Symposium: "American Exceptionalism,” New Hampshire, September 22-23.
Guests: Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West; WWII and Military History Field Trip; Black Actions: Assassination in Counterterrorism Strategy; The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict; Death Orders: The Vanguard of Revolutionary Terror in Russia
2011 IHI Symposium: "Empires,” New Hampshire, October 20-21.
2009 IHI Symposium: “War in the West,” with Western Front Association, Boston, November 9.
2008 IHI Symposium: "History of the CIA,” with Carnegie Council, Boston, September 26.
IHI Symposium: "Legacy of the Armenian Republic,” Boston, September 27.
IHI Symposium: "Fascism in 20th Century Europe,” Boston, March 24.
2007 IHI Symposium: "From the Great War to the Peace Settlement,” Boston, March 23-24.
2005 IHI Conference: U.S.-Saudi Relations, with King Saud University, Boston, November 7.
2004 IHI Conference: History of Gastronomy, with Florence Gould Foundation and Center for Medieval Studies, Boston University, May 10-12.
2003 Paper: “The Religious Origins of American Exceptionalism,” Conflict and Cooperation in International Relations: the Religious Dimension, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 21-23.
Panel Chair “Interrogation,” and conference co-organizer: Democracies and Dirty Wars: Hard Cases in Military Ethics, McCormick Tribune Foundation, Cantigny Conference Series, Wheaton, IL, March 13-14.
2002: Panel: “Ethical and Legal Considerations,” Democracies and Limited Wars, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2-4.
Panel Chair: “World Perspectives on the Era of Reconstruction,” Historical Reconstructions, Historical Society Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA. May 16-19.
IHI Conference: “Diplomacy of the Great War, 1914-1918,” with Western Front Association, Boston University, November 10.
2001: Paper: “Great Powers and International Security,” The International Ethics of Security, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, April 5-7.
IHI Conference: Reassessing the Gulf War,” International History Institute, Robert McCormick Tribune Foundation, Boston University, February 20-22.
Yale-Harvard-Boston University program in Modern Diplomatic History. Co-sponsored by the International History Institute (Boston University), Center for European Studies (Harvard), Center for Strategic and International Studies (Yale). Harvard University, February 16.
2000 Panel: “Power, Morality, and Diplomacy,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Toronto, June 24.
Panel: “Peacekeeping and Operations Other than War (OOTW),” Canada-US Security Cooperation, Department of National Defence, Canada. University of New Brunswick, April 12, 2000.
Paper: “Vietnam and Transformation of America,” Historical Society, Providence College, April 7.
1999 IHI Conference: “From Journalism to History,” funded by Robert McCormick Tribune Foundation, Boston University, October 5-7.
Commentator: “Atlanticism and Alliance Management Under Eisenhower, 1952-1961,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Princeton University, June 24-26.
1998 Conference: Responsibilities of Great Powers, funded by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, Boston University, April 30-May 2.
Panel: Prisoner of War Repatriation as a Cold War Battleground, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), University of Maryland at College Park, Washington, D.C. June 18-20.
Panel: “Moral Maxims in Foreign Policy: Diplomacy and Political Theory,” International Studies Association, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. March 1998.
Invited roundtable: Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations, 1948-1998: A Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York, March 26-27.
1997 Invited roundtable: American MIAs and POWs in the Soviet Union: Implications of Newly Released Evidence from the Cold War, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. June 19-21.
Panel: International Law and Humanitarian Intervention, American Historical Association, New York, January 2-3, 1997.
1996 Paper: “Ethics, International Affairs, and the Historian,” Moral Judgment and Cold War History Research Project, Joel H. Rosenthal and John L. Gaddis, co-chairs. Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. Merrill House, New York, December 13-14.
1995 Paper: “The Human Dimension’ in the New CSCE.” Ethics and International Affairs Panel, International Studies Association, Chicago, IL. February 1995.
1993 Conference organizer: Ethics and Statecraft, funded by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 6-10.
Paper: “Bodyguard of Lies: Franklin Roosevelt and Defensible Deceit in W.W.II,” Faculty Institute on Ethics and Statecraft, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 6-10.
1990 Paper: “Eisenhower, Congress, and the United Nations,” Annual Leadership Conference, Center for the Study of Presidency, University of Texas, Austin, TX., October 26-28. 1990.
Paper: “The Last Hurrah of Conservative Isolationism? Eisenhower and the Bricker Amendment,” Ike’s America, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., October 4-6.
Conference: Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, Bowdoin College, Maine, July 9-19.
1987 Paper: “The United Nations and Human Rights, 1945-1985”, United Nations Association, Toronto, November 15.
1986 Paper: “The United Nations Human Right Committee,” Conference on Human Rights and Canadian Foreign Policy, University of Toronto, July 13-14.
1985 Paper: “Parliament, Human Rights, and Canadian Foreign Policy,” International Studies Association, Washington, D.C., March 7.
Invited Lectures
2020 Keynote Address: 75th Anniversary of the Last Days of WWII, Military Historical Society of Massachusetts and American Heritage Museum, Stow MA, July 23, 2020
2019 American Inspiration Literary Event: “Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy,” Donald Miller & Cathal Nolan, Historic Rotunda at American Ancestors, Boston, November 12
“The Dangerous Myth of Decisive Battle,” New York Military Affairs Symposium, November 1.
“1944: The Paris and Warsaw Uprisings,” National World War II Museum, New Orleans, August 22 https://www.c-span.org/video/?463506-1/1944-paris-warsaw-uprisings
“Viêtnam Reexamined,” interrogator on IHI and World Affairs Forum panel, February 25
2018 “Assessing Victory and Defeat,” National World War II Museum, New Orleans, December 1. Rebroadcast on C-Span at https://www.c-span.org/video/?454677-3/assessing-victory-defeat
“The Allure of Battle,” lecture & award ceremony, New York Historical Society, November 26th
“The Closing Days of World War II,” Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, October 20th
“Fake History: Hollywood Goes to War, 1915-2015,” Heritage Lecture Series, Hall of Philosophy, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York: Aug 21
“London at War,” International Museum of WWII, Natick MA July 12
2017 “Japanese Imperialism and the Allure of Battle,” East Asian Studies, Hebrew University, June 18
“Winning and Losing Wars,” Begin-Sadat Center, Bar-Ilan University, June 21
“Lessons Learned,” U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, June 11-13.
“The Allure of Battle and American Foreign Policy,” Center for Military and Diplomatic History, Foreign Policy Initiative, Washington, D.C. April 10-12
“The Allure of Battle,” National Intelligence University Alumni Association, Boston October 5th
2015 “Military Ethics in the 21st Century: What’s Changed?” Boston ROTC Consortium, February 18, 2015
2014 “Amphibious Assault on Europe: D-Day, June 6, 1944,” Boston ROTC Consortium, October 31, 2014. “American Exceptionalism in the 21st Century,” U.S. Coast Guard Academy, March 31, 2014. “Aspects of U.S. Naval History,” Boston ROTC Consortium, February 29, 2015.
2013 “America and World,” Educating for Global Understanding, Watertown, MA. July 8, 2013. “Presidential Deception in War: FDR and LBJ,” World Affairs Forum, Boston, February 16, 2013
2012 “American Exceptionalism?” Educating for Global Understanding, Newton MA, August 13, 2012
2011 "In Defense of Lying by Presidents," World Affairs Forum, Boston University, January 26, 2011 “Realism and International History,” Center for Strategic Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Kabul, Afghanistan, August 10, 2011
“History of International Relations,” Center for Strategic Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Kabul, Afghanistan, August 2, 2011
“International Security,” Center for Strategic Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Kabul, Afghanistan, August 3, 2011
2008 “The Xmas Truce of 1914,” Foxhill Village, December 27, 2008. “Presidential Lying in Wartime: Is it Ever Defensible?” Foxhill Village, April 26, 2008.
2006 “The Treaty of Portsmouth,” Japan-America Society, Portsmouth NH, December 10, 2006. "Truth or Lies? Propaganda in 20th Century Film,” six lecture series, Foxhill Village, Westwood, MA
2005 “New Directions in American Foreign Policy,” CGS, Boston University “Causes of Failure and Success in War, 1740-1945" six lecture series, Foxhill Village, Westwood, MA “God is on Our Side! Religion and War, 1500-1740" six lecture series, Foxhill Village, Westwood, MA
2004 “The Rise of Britain to World Power: The Role of the Royal Navy,” BYU London campus, London, UK, August 3, 2004.
2003: “FDR’s Wartime Leadership,” United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, February 19, 2003. “Great Statesmen,” six lecture series, Foxhill Village, Westwood, MA.
2002 "War and Society,” six lecture series, Foxhill Village, Westwood, MA. "America and the World” six lecture series, Foxhill Village, Westwood, MA.
2000 “The End of History? The Evolution of Liberal International Relations,” CGS, Boston University.
1999 “The Wilsonian Tradition in American Foreign Policy,” CGS, Boston University.
1998 “Ratchet of Hypocrisy: The Genesis of Liberal Governing Norms in World Affairs,” David M. Kennedy Center for International Relations, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. April 1, 1998.
“Ethics and International Relations,” Jornado Sobre Ética y Relaciones Internacionales, Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI), Buenos Aires. September 7-8, 1998.
1997 “The Ratchet of Hypocrisy: Moving Human Rights Forward in International Relations,” United States Business and Industrial Council, American Interests Lecture Series, Washington, D.C. 1996 “Cooperative Security and the ‘Human Dimension’ of the OSCE Process.” Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. March 18-19, 1996.
1995 “Humanitarian Intervention by the United Nations: Lessons from Bosnia and Somalia,” United Nations Association, Vancouver. July 5, 1995.
1994 “The Changing Role of the United Nations: From Peacekeeping to Peacemaking?” University of British Columbia. June 20, 1994.
1991 “The Humbling of Saddam Hussein: Thoughts on the Advent of the Gulf War,” Alpha Delta Phi Chapter House, Miami University, Oxford, OH. February 24, 1991.
1989 “NATO and the WTO: Have They a Future?” Germany Without Walls, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. November 22, 1989.
Policy Consultations
2011 Technical Adviser, Foreign Affairs Institutional Reform (FAIR) Project, United States Agency for International Development. Location: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Kabul, Afghanistan.
1998 “The Death Penalty in America,” 14,000 word research brief on the history, legislation, and current state of the law on the death penalty in America and internationally, January 1998.
1997 “Charter Schools and Other Recent Legislation,” 42p. Legislative brief for the Chairman of the State Board of Education, Massachusetts, September 1997.
“The Education Reform Act of 1993,” Legislative brief for the Chairman of the State Board of Education, Massachusetts, March 1997 (73p.)
“The Changing University: Evolution of Higher Education in America from Earliest Times to the Present,” 30p. report for the Chairman of the State Board of Education, Massachusetts, April 1997.
1996: “A Concise History of Public Education in Massachusetts,” 65p. report for the Chairman of the State Board of Education, Massachusetts, February 1996.
1995: “Canada and the Human Dimension of the CSCE, 1973-1994,” Cooperative Security Program, Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada.
1985 “Human Rights and Development Assistance in Latin America,” Policy Development and Research Division, Canadian International Development Agency, Government of Canada (classified).
“Human Rights and Development Assistance in Africa,” Policy Development and Research Division, Canadian International Development Agency, Government of Canada (classified).
1984 “Human Rights and Foreign Policy.” 46p. report/analysis for the Human Rights Project, Toronto.
1983 “A Research Guide to Human Rights in Canadian Foreign Policy: Parliament, 1966-1983.” 250p. guide to Parliamentary papers, reports, and archives for the Human Rights Project, Toronto
1982 “The Influence of Islamic Higher Learning on the Early Modern University in the West.” 147p. history of early Islamic intellectual history for Wandel Education Ltd., Toronto, 1982.
Full Schedule of Events Organized as Executive Director International History Institute Available in separate file