Cold War Studies at Harvard University

This page is designed as a forum for posting responses to and discussions of articles from the Journal of Cold War Studies. Please submit any commentary to jcws@fas.harvard.edu. We would like to thank H-Diplo (an online discussion list dedicated to the study of diplomatic and international history) for allowing us to re-post its running commentary on the Journal.

Discussion on Robert McMahon. “U.S. Policy toward South Asia and Tibet during the Early Cold War”.

Discussion on Carole McGranahan. “Tibet’s Cold War: The CIA and the Chushi Gangdrug Resitance, 1956-1974.”

Discussion on Michael M. Sheng. “Mao, Tibet, and the Korean War.”

Discussion on Jeronim Perovic. “The Tito-Stalin Split: A Reassessment in Light of New Evidence.”

Discussion on Pierre Asselin. “Choosing Peace: Hanoi and the Geneva Agreement on Vietnam, 1954- 1955.”

Discussion on Andrew L. Johns. “The Johnson Administration, the Shah of Iran, and the Changing Pattern of U.S.-Iranian Relations, 1965-1967: ‘Tired of Being Treated like a Schoolboy.’”

Discussion on Ken Young. “A Most Special Relationship: The Origins of Anglo-American Nuclear Strike Planning.”

Discussion on James J. Marquardt. “Transparency and Security Competition: Open Skies and America’s Cold War Statecraft, 1948-1960.”

Discussion on Igor Lukes. "The Czechoslovak Special Services and Their American Adversary during the Cold War." Further commentary provided by Johann Smula.

Discussion on Philip Deery. "Malaya, 1948: Britain’s Asian Cold War."

Discussion on William E. Odom. “The Cold War Origins of the U.S. Central Command.”

Discussion on Bernadette Whelan. “Ireland, the Marshall Plan, and U.S. Cold War Concerns."

Discussion on Hal Brands. “Rethinking Nonproliferation: LBJ, the Gilpatric Committee, and U.S. National Security Policy.”

Discussion on Sergey Radchenko. " Mongolian Politics in the Shadow of the Cold War: The 1964 Coup Attempt and the Sino-Soviet Split."

Discussion on David Stiles. “A Fusion Bomb over Andalucia: U.S. Information Policy and the 1966 Palomares Incident.”

Discussion on Avi Kober. “Great-Power Involvement and Israeli Battlefield Success in the Arab-Israeli Wars, 1948-1982.”

Discussion on Yafeng Xia. “China’s Elite Politics and Sino-American Rapprochement, January 1965- February 1972."

Discussion on Galia Golan. “The Soviet Union and the Outbreak of the June 1967 Six-DayWar.” Further comments provided by Mike Weeks and John Zimmerman.

Discussion on John A. Soares, “Strategy, Ideology and Human Rights: Jimmy Carter Confronts the Left in Central America, 1979-1981.”

Discussion on Piero Gleijes, “Moscow’s Proxy? Cuba and Africa, 1975-1988.” Followed by Jorge I. Domínguez's commentary and the author's response.

Discussion on Nancy Mitchell's review of Piero Gleijes' article "Moscow's Proxy? Cuba and Africa, 1975-1988." The discussion includes two replies by Piero Gleijeses in addition to comments from James McAllister, Elaine Windrich, Nancy Mitchell and O.A. Westad.

Discussion on Norrie MacQueen. “ Belated Decolonization and UN Politics Against the Backdrop of the Cold War.”

Discussion on Robert Jervis, “Containment Strategies in Perspective” (review essay).

Discussion on Nigel Gould-Davies, "Rethinking the Role of Ideology in International Politics During the Cold War."

Discussion on William Wohlforth, "A Certain Idea of Science," and Nigel Gould-Davies, "Rethinking the Role of Ideology During the Cold War."

Discussion on Francis J. Gavin, "Politics, Power and U.S. Policy in Iran, 1950-1953."

Black on Ideas, IR, and the End of the Cold War roundtable.

“Reassessing the Marshall Plan”roundtable.

Discussion on Mark Kramer, “The Collapse of East European Communism and the Repercussions within the Soviet Union.”Commentary by Anthony D’Agostino and Tom Nichols.

Discussion on Astrid S. Tuminez, “Nationalism, Ethnic Pressures, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union."

Discussion on Eugene Gholz, “The Curtiss-Wright Corporation and Cold War-Era Defense Procurement: A Challenge to Military-Industrial Complex Theory.” Author's response to Michael Barnhart's commentary.

Discussion on David G. Coleman, “Eisenhower and the Berlin Problem, 1953-1954.”

Discussion on Adam Ulam, "A Few Unresolved Mysteries about Stalin and the Cold War in Europe: A Modest Agenda for Research."

Discussion on Mark Kramer's three-part article, "The Early Post-Stalin Succession Struggle and Upheavals in East-Central Europe: Internal-External Linkages in Soviet Policy making."

Discussion on Timothy Snyder's article, "To Resolve the Ukranian Question once and for All: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ukrainians in Poland, 1943-1947."

Discussion on James Jay Carafano's article, "Mobilizing Europe's Stateless: America's Plan for a Cold War Army."

Discussion on John Earl Haynes, "The Cold War Debate Continues: A Traditionalist View of Historical Writing on Domestic Communism and Anti- Communism."

Discussion on Andrew Moravcsik, "De Gaulle Between Grain and Grandeur : The Political Economy of French EC Policy, 1958-1970", with commentaries.

Discussion on Michael Middeke,"Anglo-American Nuclear Weapons Cooperation after the Nassau Conference: The British Policy of Interdependence."

Discussion on Astrid Tuminez," Nationalism, Ethnic Pressures, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union."

Discussion on Celeste Wallander," Western Policy and the Demise of the Soviet Union."

Discussion on Robert Weiner's review of Israeli-Romanian Relations at the End of the Ceausescu Era: as observed by Israel's Ambassador to Romania, 1985-1989.