Cold War Events
That Little Infernal Cuban Republic: U.S. Policies Toward Cuba in Historical Perspective
July 15, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Latin American Program
Contemporary U.S. policies toward Cuba and the domestic and international factors shaping the possibilities for a new bilateral relationship were discussed.
Kissinger: 1973, the Crucial Year
June 17, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:00pm
Cold War International History Project
Alistair Horne, Former Wilson Center Fellow and Public Policy Scholar
Idealists Against Ideologues: A Case Study in the Political History of the Romanian Intelligentsia
June 10, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Cold War International History Project
Mihail Neamtu Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar and Romanian Short-Term Scholar
Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975
June 02, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Cold War International History Project
John Prados, the George Washington University's National Security Archive, Larry Berman, University of California, Davis, Thomas Hughes U.S. State Department (ret.)
Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks and the Documentation of Soviet Intelligence Operations in the United States, 1930-1950
May 21, 2009 // 10:00am — 4:30pm
Cold War International History Project
Eduard Mark, Department of the Air Force; Max Holland, Former Wilson Center Fellow, and editor, Washington Decoded; John Fox, Federal Bureau of Investigation; G. Edward White, University of Virginia Law School; R. Bruce Craig, University of Prince Edward Island; Steve Usdin, BioCentury Publications; Gregg Herken, University of California, Merced; Robert S. Norris, National Resources Defense Council; Ronald Radosh, Professor Emeritus, City University of New York; Barton Bernstein, Stanford University; Mark Kramer, Harvard University
Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks and the Documentation of Soviet Intelligence Operations in the United States, 1930-1950
May 20, 2009 // 3:00pm — 5:30pm
Cold War International History Project
Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center; Alexander Vassiliev, journalist and Former KGB officer; John Earl Haynes, Library of Congress; Harvey Klehr, Emory University; Mark Kramer, Harvard University; Katherine Sibley, St. Joseph's University; James G. Hershberg, The George Washington University
Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967
May 20, 2009 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm
Cold War International History Project
Sergey Radchenko, London School of Economics; Mark Kramer, Harvard University
The Sino-Indian Border Clashes and the Sino-Soviet Split: New Evidence from Chinese Archives
May 18, 2009 // 2:45pm — 5:00pm
Cold War International History Project
Douglas Spelman, Woodrow Wilson Center, Shen Zhihua, East China Normal University, Dai Chaowu, East China Normal University, Li Danhui, Beijing University, Srinath Raghavan National Institute of Advanced Studies, Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University
Communist Romania's Cultural Cold War, 1947-1960
May 14, 2009 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm
Cold War International History Project
Cristian Vasile, Wilson Center public policy scholar and Romanian short-term scholar
Truman's Campaign of Truth and Canada's Cultural Cold War
May 06, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Canada Institute
A discussion hosted by the Canada Institute and the History and Public Policy Program focused on how the Cold War affected and shaped Canadian culture from 1945 to 1965. Frank Ninkovich and Paul Hjartarson offered compelling reasons to study culture as a means of diplomacy.