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APPLIED HISTORY NETWORK MEETING Harvard Kennedy School May 2-4, 2019 a meeting arranged by axel and margaret ax:son johnson foundation belfer center for science and international affairs, harvard kennedy school hoover institution, stanford university PROGRAM Applied History Network Meeting Harvard Kennedy School, May 2-4 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Thursday, May 2 5:45 PM Reception LOCATION: Taubman, 5th floor 6:30 PM Dinner Friday, May 3 8:00 AM Breakfast buffet LOCATION: Taubman, 5th floor 9:15–10:30 AM Session 1: Middle East Monica Toft, Chair Barnaby Crowcroft, Tamar Herzog, Patrick Milton 10:30 AM Break 10:45 AM-NOON Session 2: WWI and WWIII Niall Ferguson, Chair Kori Schake, Philip Zelikow 12:15-2:00 PM Lunch Session: Ash Carter as Applied Historian Ash Carter, Speaker Graham Allison, Moderator 2:15-3:30 PM Session 3: China William Inboden, Chair Thomas Cavanna, Julian Gewirtz, Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, Yuhua Wang 3:30 PM Break 3:45-5:00 PM Session 4: Applied History in Government Robert Zoellick, Chair Seth Center, Norman Roule 5:00 PM Break 5:15-6:30 PM Session 5: Russia Mary Sarotte, Chair Stephanie Freeman, Kristina Spohr, Calder Walton 6:30 PM Adjourn 7:00 PM Reception LOCATION: Littauer, Malkin Penthouse 7:30 PM Dinner Saturday, May 4 8:00 AM Breakfast buffet LOCATION: Taubman, 5th floor 9:15-10:30 AM Session 6: Grand Strategy, Leadership, and War Francis Gavin and Fredrik Logevall, Chairs Aiyaz Husain, Ian Johnson, Nancy Koehn 10:30 AM Break 10:45 AM-NOON Session 7: Applied Economic History Niall Ferguson, Chair Carmen Reinhart, Melissa Dell, Paul Schmelzing 12:15 PM Closing lunch LOCATION: Littauer, Malkin Penthouse PROGRAM SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS Graham Allison Barnaby Crowcroft Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Barnaby Crowcroft is the Duignan Vis- Professor of Government at Harvard iting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. University and a leading analyst of na- He specializes in the law and political tional security with special interests in thought of the end of the British empire, nuclear weapons, Russia, China, and with a particular focus on the Middle decision-making. He was the “Founding East and West Africa. Crowcroft is cur- Dean” of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Gov- rently completing a PhD in the Harvard History Depart- ernment, and until 2017, served as Director of its Belfer ment. He previously worked in foreign service in the Center for Science and International Affairs. Dr. Alli- United Arab Emirates. son’s latest book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (2017), is a national and interna- tional bestseller. Melissa Dell Melissa Dell is Professor of Econom- ics at Harvard University and a Faculty Ash Carter Research Fellow at the National Bureau Ash Carter is a former United States Sec- of Economic Research. In 2018, she was retary of Defense and the current Direc- awarded the Elaine Bennett Research tor of the Belfer Center for Science and Prize by the American Economic Associ- International Affairs at Harvard Kenne- ation, and The Economist named her one of “the decade’s dy School, where he leads the Technol- eight best young economists.” She researches long-run ogy and Public Purpose project. He is economic development, primarily in Latin America and also an Innovation Fellow and Corporation Member at Asia. MIT. Before serving as Secretary of Defense, he was in the number two (“COO”) and number three (“weapons czar”) positions. He was awarded the Defense Distin- Niall Ferguson guished Service Medal, the Department’s highest civilian Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Mil- honor, on five separate occasions. Carter is the author or bank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover co-author of over 12 books and more than one-hundred Institution, Stanford University, and a articles on physics, technology, national security, and senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Cen- management. ter for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. He Thomas Cavanna is also a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Bei- Thomas Cavanna is a Visiting Assistant jing. Ferguson is the author of fifteen books, including Professor at the Fletcher School of Law & Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council Diplomacy (Center for Strategic Studies). on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. His most recent He writes on U.S. grand strategy, Chi- book, The Square and the Tower, was a New York Times na, and South Asia. He holds a French bestseller. “Agrégation” and a M.A./Ph.D. in histo- ry from Sciences Po. He was also a Fox Fellow at Yale. Stephanie Freeman Stephanie Freeman is an Ernest May Seth Center postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Seth Center is senior fellow and director Center. In the fall, she will be joining the of the Project on History and Strategy at faculty of Mississippi State University as the Center for Strategic and Internation- an Assistant Professor of History. She is al Studies (CSIS). His program employs currently writing a book that examines a historical lens to examine the national nuclear abolitionists’ role in ending the Cold War. security agenda, develop applied history findings, and connect historians to the policy communi- ty. Dr. Center served at the National Security Council from 2016-2019 as a historian and as director for National Security Strategy, and before that as a State Department historian. SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS Francis Gavin Security and Law, and Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Na- Francis J. Gavin is the Giovanni Agnelli tional Security Review. Previously he served as Senior Distinguished Professor and the inaugu- Director for Strategic Planning on the NSC staff and ral director of the Henry A. Kissinger with the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff. He Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hop- is a member of the CIA Director’s Historical Review kins SAIS. In 2013, Gavin was appointed Panel and the State Department’s Historical Advisory the first Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Committee. Security Policy Studies and Professor of Political Science at MIT. Gavin’s writings include Gold, Dollars, and Pow- Ian Johnson er: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971 Ian Ona Johnson is the Associate Di- (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) and Nuclear rector of the Brady-Johnson Program in Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age (Cor- Grand Strategy at Yale University, where nell University Press, 2012). he also teaches in the Department of History. He received his PhD in military Julian Gewirtz history from the Ohio State University in Julian Gewirtz is an Academy Scholar at 2016. He is the editor of The White Nights: Pages from a the Harvard Academy for International Russian Doctor’s Notebook (Bowen Press Books, 2018) and and Area Studies and Lecturer on His- author of the soon-to-be released The Faustian Bargain: tory at Harvard University. He received Secret Soviet-German Military Cooperation in the Interwar Pe- his doctorate in modern Chinese history riod (Oxford University Press). from Oxford University in 2018, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of Unlike- Nancy Koehn ly Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Har- Making of Global China (Harvard University Press, 2017), vard Business School, where she holds and his second book, on the ambitions, struggles, and the James E. Robison chair of Business legacies of China’s 1980s, is under contract with Harvard Administration. Her research focuses on University Press. how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact. Koehn’s Tamar Herzog latest book, Forged in Crisis: The Power and Glory of Leading Tamar Herzog is the Monroe Gutman in Turbulent Times, spotlights how five of history’s greatest Professor of Latin American Affairs and leaders managed crisis. an affiliated faculty member at the Har- vard Law School. Among her books are Daniel Kurtz-Phelan A Short History of European Law: The Last Daniel Kurtz-Phelan became Executive Two and a Half Millennia (2018), Frontiers Editor of Foreign Affairs in October 2017. of Possession (2015), Upholding Justice (2004) and Defining He previously served as a member of the Nations: Immigrants and Citizens (2003). Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. His writing has appeared in publications Aiyaz Husain including The New York Times, The Wash- Aiyaz Husain specializes in British impe- ington Post, and The New Yorker, and his narrative history rial history and global history, and is the of George Marshall’s post–World War II mission to Chi- author of Mapping the End of Empire (Har- na, The China Mission, was published by WW Norton in vard University Press, 2014). He earned April 2018. his BA at Yale and his MA and PhD at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplo- Fredrik Logevall macy. He currently works for the U.S. Department of Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. State’s Office of the Historian. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and Pro- William Inboden fessor of History at Harvard University. William Inboden is the William Powers, Logevall is the author or editor of nine Jr. Chair and Executive Director of the books, most recently Embers of War: The Clements Center for National Security Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Ran- at the University of Texas-Austin where dom House, 2012), which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize he also serves as Associate Professor at for History, the 2013 Francis Parkman Prize, the 2013 the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Distin- American Library in Paris Book Award, and the 2013 guished Scholar at the Strauss Center for International Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.