Events
Woodrow Wilson Center, National Defense University Partner to Study Iran-Iraq War
Today Woodrow Wilson Center Director, President and CEO Jane Harman and National Defense University President Vice Admiral Ann E. Rondeau signed a Memorandum of Agreement for a joint research and conference program on Iraqi records captured in the wake of the 2003 invasion.
Research Notes - CWIHP Bulletin No. 16 - Part 6
Conference Report: From Helsinki to Gorbachev, 1975-1985: The Globalization of the Bipolar Confrontation, Villa Medicea "La Ferdinanda" (Artimino, Italy) 27-29 April 2006 by Duccio Basosi, Matteo Gerlini, and Angela Romano***The 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War: A CWIHP Critical Oral History Conference***History through Documents and Memory: Report on a CWIHP Critical Oral History Conference on the Congo Crisis, 1960-1961 by Lise Namikas***CWIHP Launches New Middle East Initiative by Mircea Munteanu***
Senior CWIHP Scholar Hope Harrison Publishes Op-Ed in German weekly Die Welt am Sonntag
As we approach the 43rd anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall, most people, when asked, "Whom was to blame for the erection of the Berlin Wall?" would answer: the Soviets. But history is more complex.
A Distant Front in the Cold War: The USSR in West Africa and the Congo, 1956-1964
Sergey Mazov presents evidence from previously inaccessible documents in Russian and U.S. archives, as well as an international sampling of recent scholarly works that reveal West Africa as a significant site of Cold War conflict in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The Merchants of the Kremlin—The Economic Roots of Soviet Expansion in Hungary
CWIHP Working Paper No. 28
The Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1991 Reviewed in H-Diplo
Volume of the CWIHP Book series, "The Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1991," featured in H-Diplo Roundtable Review