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Call for Papers--Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory
Sep 15, 2010The University of Nottingham's School of American and Canadian Studies has issued a call for papers for the 29-30 April 2011 international conference Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory.
Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in South East Asia, 1945-1962, edited by CWIHP Director Christian Ostermann is reviewed on H-Diplo.
Sep 07, 2010Connecting Histories draws on newly available archival documentation from both Western and Asian countries to explore decolonization, the Cold War, and the establishment of a new international order in post-World War II Southeast Asia.
CWIHP Senior Scholar Bernd Schaefer is quoted in the Cambodia Daily
Sep 01, 2010CWIHP is pleased to announce that CWIHP Senior Scholar, Bernd Schaefer is quoted in the Cambodia Daily discussing US-Cambodian relations during the Cold War.
Step Forward in Archival Openness in Bulgaria
Aug 13, 2010CWIHP is pleased to announce that its Bulgarian partner COMDOS – The Committee for Disclosing the Documents and Announcing the Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens to the State Security and the Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian National Army – is expected to receive the archival record of the State Security Agency based on a tri-lateral agreement with the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior and the Archives State Agency signed in April 2010.
CWIHP Welcomes Public Policy Scholar Niu Jun
Aug 02, 2010Jun is a professor at Peking University's School of International Studies where he teaches courses on the PRC's foreign relations and foreign policy making process. While he is at the Wilson Center, his research will center on the Cold War and the origin of the PRC's foreign policy between 1949 and 1958.
Former Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar Mark Stout Published in Intelligence and National Security
Jul 30, 2010Former Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar Mark Stout has co-authored an article in the current issue of the journal Intelligence and National Security, entitled "Al Qaida's Views of Authoritarian Intelligence Services in the Middle East."
Call for Papers: Transnational Dimensions of Cold War Anti-communism
Jul 14, 2010Against the background of potential nuclear devastation and the confrontation between two ideologies and world powers, an unrestrained psychological war was fought by the two camps using modern means of communication (radio, cinema, covert action, etc).
Call for Papers: Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War
Jul 14, 2010Call for Papers for the international conference Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War, Munich, Germany, 27-29 January 2011.
Fall 2010 CWIHP Internship Opportunities
Jul 14, 2010Application Deadline: Monday, 2 August 2010