This website was originally meant to serve as a kind of supplement to my
book, A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, February 1999). When it was launched in 1998, a
number of Appendices to that book were
posted there, and it also contained a discussion of
declassification analysis, one of
the methods used there, together with some illustrative documents. Those materials remain on the site, and
another webpage, “Declassification
Analysis: More Grist for the Mill,” containing over 40 documents in
multiple versions, was added in May 2013).
Two appendices to my book The Craft of
International History: A Guide to Method (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2006)—the appendices are updated
periodically—are also available here:
Appendix
I: Identifying the Scholarly Literature.
Appendix
II: Working with Primary Sources.
This site contains some other material:
My curriculum
vitae (with links to texts of articles, reviews and unpublished
papers). Note especially the collection
of documents I accumulated when I was writing the Constructed Peace book. Those documents were pdf’d and
then ocr’d (so they’re all keyword searchable); the link is also included in the c.v.
listing for that book.
A collection of course
materials (including mp3s of my lectures, plus two videos—lectures by
Kenneth Walt and John Mearsheimer)
This whole website—the appendices to the Constructed
Peace book, the pdfs of all the documents I collected for that book, the
two webpages on declassification analysis, the two appendices to the methods
book, my c.v. (with outlinks, also archived, to practically everything I’ve
written up to this point), and a collection of course materials for various
courses I’ve taught (including tapes of lectures)—has been archived
and should be available, theoretically in perpetuity, through the Internet
Archive’s Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/web/). Just type in the URL for this
website (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/trachtenberg/)
in the search field there, and if you select the most recent capture, you
should be able to see everything in this website, even if UCLA is no longer
hosting it. The
“outlinks” cited not just on this page but on all the other pages
in the website have, in principle, also been automatically archived there. If a link doesn’t work, you can
search for the URL on the Wayback Machine and you should be able to find what
you’re looking for. This, of
course, doesn’t apply to links that don’t work because they’re
available through a subscription service;
in those cases you’d have to go through a library that is a
subscriber.