Curriculum Vitae: Marc Trachtenberg (October
2009)
Education:
University of California, Berkeley: A.B. (1966), M.A. (1967), Ph.D. (1974)
Honors and Grants:
Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1966-67)
Special Career (NDEA Title IV) Fellow (1968-71)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (1975)
American Philosophical Society Grant (1977)
Social Science Research Council Research Training Fellow (economics) (1977-78)
Guggenheim Fellow (1983-84)
SSRC/MacArthur International Peace and Security Fellow (1986-88, 1990-91)
German Marshall Fund Fellow(1994-95)
Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies and Program in Science,
Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986-88)
Adjunct Research Fellow, Center for Science and International Affairs, John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1986-87)
Visiting Fellow, Center of International Studies, Princeton University
(1994-1995)
Employment:
Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1974-80
Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1980-1991
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1991-2001
Professor of Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles,
2001-
Visiting Associate Professor of Politics, Brandeis University, 1989
Adjunct Associate Professor and then Adjunct Professor, School of
International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 1989, 1994
Adjunct Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Columbia
University, 1990
Visiting Professor of History, Yale University, 1992 and 1996-97
Books:
Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy,
1916-1923 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980)
Editor of The Development of American Strategic Thought, 6 vols. (New
York: Garland, 1988)
History and Strategy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991)
A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)
Internet
supplement: http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/trachtenberg/
Winner of the American Historical Association's
George Louis Beer Prize (for European international history since 1895) and of
the AHA's Paul Birdsall Prize (for European military and strategic history
since 1870); a roundtable discussion of this book appeared in H-Diplo in August 2000.
Editor of Between Empire and Alliance: America and Europe during the Cold
War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003)
The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method (Princeton
University Press, 2006).
Online
appendices:
Appendix
I: Identifying the Scholarly Literature (standard
version) (UCLA
version)
Appendix
II: Working with Primary Sources (standard
version) (UCLA
version).
A roundtable discussion on "International
Relations Theory and Diplomatic History," focusing on a paper drawn from
chapter two of this book, with contributions by Robert Jervis, Donald Kagan,
Eliot Cohen, and Fraser Harbutt, a rejoinder I wrote, appeared in Historically Speaking,
vol. 8, no. 2 (November-December 2006). H-Diplo also published a roundtable
on this book in December 2007 (edited by Patrick Finney, who also wrote the
introduction, and with contributions by Antony Best, John Ferris, Petra Goedde,
Geoff Roberts, and with my reply)
Articles:
"'A New Economic Order': Etienne Clémentel and French Economic
Diplomacy during the First World War," French Historical Studies (Fall
1977) (pdf
version)
"The Social Interpretation of Foreign Policy," Review of
Politics (July 1978) (pdf
version)
"Reparation at the Paris Peace Conference" (with comments and
reply), Journal of Modern History (March 1979); republished in part in
William R. Keylor, ed., The Legacy of the Great War: Peacemaking, 1919 (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1998). (pdf version)
"Poincaré's Deaf Ear: The Otto Wolff Affair and French Ruhr
Policy, August-September 1923," The Historical Journal, 24:3 (1981)
(pdf version)
"Poincaré eut-il en 1923 une politique rhénane?" Revue
d'histoire diplomatique (1981)
"Versailles after Sixty Years," Journal of Contemporary History
(1982) (pdf version)
"Keynes Triumphant: A Study in the Social History of Economic
Ideas," Knowledge and Society, vol. 4 (1983)
"Strategists, Philosophers and the Nuclear Question," Ethics
95:3 (April 1985), republished in Russell Hardin et al, Nuclear Deterrence:
Ethics and Strategy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985) (pdf
version)
"The Influence of Nuclear Weapons in the Cuban Missile Crisis," International
Security 10:1 (Summer 1985), with documents and introduction (pdf version)
"The Question of No-First-Use," Orbis 29:4 (Winter 1986)
"A 'Wasting Asset': American Strategy and the Shifting Nuclear Balance,
1949-54," International Security 13:3, (Winter 1988-89) (pdf version)
"Strategic Thought in America, 1952-66," Political Science
Quarterly 104:2 (Summer 1989) (pdf version).
"Worum geht es bei der Kernwaffenfrage?" in Uwe Nerlich and Trutz
Rendtoff, eds., Nukleare Abschreckung: Politische und ethische
Interpretationen einer neuen Realität (Baden Baden, 1989). Original (unpublished)
English-language version, "What is the Nuclear Question?" (Word conversion from old PC-write program)
"American Thinking on Nuclear War," in C.G. Jacobsen, ed., Strategic
Power: USA/USSR (London: Macmillan, 1990)
"New Light on the Missile Crisis?" Diplomatic History
(Spring 1990) (pdf
version)
"The Nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West European Relations," in
John Gillingham and Francis Heller, eds, NATO, the Integration of Europe and
the Atlantic Alliance (London, 1991)
"The Past and Future of Arms Control," Daedalus (Winter
1991), reprinted in Emanuel Adler, ed., The International Practice of Arms
Control (Word version)
"The Meaning of Mobilization in 1914," International Security 15:3,
Winter 1990-91, reprinted in Steven Miller et al, Military Strategy and the
Origins of the First World War (Princeton, 1991). (pdf
version) This is an abbreviated version of the article on the July Crisis
published in the History and Strategy book. Correspondence relating to
this article was published in International Security 16:1 (Summer 1991)
(pdf version)
"L'ouverture des archives américaines: vers de nouvelles
perspectives," in Maurice Vaïsse, ed., L'Europe et la Crise de
Cuba (Paris, 1993) (Word version); Italian
translation in Leopoldo Nuti, I Missile di Ottobre: La Storiografia
Americana e la Crisi Cubana dell'Ottobre 1962 (Milan, 1994). English
language version (never published, and somewhat different from the French
version--this was actually written after the French version): Word version
"Intervention in Historical Perspective," in Carl Kaysen and Laura
Reed, eds., Emerging Norms of Justified Intervention (Cambridge, MA,
1993) (Word version)
"La formation du système de défense occidentale: les
Etats-Unis, la France et MC 48," in Maurice Vaïsse, Pierre
Mélandri and Frédéric Bozo, La France et l'OTAN,
1949-1996 (Paris, 1996) (Word version)
"The Myth of Potsdam," in B. Heuser et al, eds., Myths in
History (Providence, RI and Oxford: Berghahn, 1998). (Word
version)
"The Past Under Siege," The Wall Street Journal, July 17,
1998. Republished in Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Reconstructing
History: The Emergence of a New Historical Society (New York and London:
Routledge, 1999), and (in Portuguese) as "O Passado Debaixo de
Cerco", in Nova Cidadania, Número 1, Verão 1999,
pp.59-61.(html version)
"Making Grand Strategy: The Early Cold War Experience in Retrospect,"
SAIS Review, 19:1 (Winter-Spring 1999) (html
version)
"The United States, France, and the Question of German Power,
1945-1960," in Stephen Schuker, ed., Deutschland und Frankreich vom
Konflikt zur Aussöhnung: Die Gestaltung der westeuropäischen
Sicherheit 1914-1963, Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, Kolloquien 46
(Munich: Oldenbourg, 2000). (Word version) This was
originally a paper given at a conference at the Historisches Kolleg in August
1997.
"The Making of a Political System: The German Question in International
Politics, 1945-1963 ," in Paul Kennedy and William Hitchcock, eds., From
War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2000). (Word version)
"Versailles Revisited" (Review of Manfred Boemeke, Gerald Feldman
and Elisabeth Glaser, The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75
Years. Cambridge, UK: German History Institute, Washington, and Cambridge
University Press, 1998), Security Studies 9:2 (Spring 2000), 191-205 (Word version)
"De Gaulle, Moravcsik, and Europe," Journal of Cold War Studies,
2:3 (Fall 2000), 101-116 (pdf version).
Comment on Andrew Moravcsik's "De Gaulle between Grain and Grandeur: The
Political Economy of French EC Policy, 1958-1970," ibid., 2:2-3
(Spring-Fall 2000)
"America, Europe, and German Rearmament, August-September 1950"
[with Christopher Gehrz], Journal of European Integration History 6:2
(December 2000), 9-35 (pdf version). This is a
contribution to a special issue of that journal on U.S.-European relations,
1950-1974 for which I was the guest editor. A slightly revised version has been
published in Marc Trachtenberg, ed., Between Empire and Alliance: America
and Europe during the Cold War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003) (Word version). Internet supplement (unpublished documents
cited in the article reproduced in pdf format)
"New Light on the Cold War?" Diplomacy and Statecraft 12:4
(December 2001), 10-17 (Word version)
"A Military Coalition in Time of Peace: America, Europe and the NATO
Alliance, 1949-1962," written for a conference on coalition warfare at the
U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, October 8, 1998, and published in
Dennis Showalter, ed., Future Wars: Coalition Operations in Global Strategy
(Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2002) (Word version)
"The Origins of the Historical Society: A Personal View," Historically Speaking (June
2003) (word version)
"France and the German Question, 1945-1955" [with Michael
Creswell], Journal of Cold War Studies 5:3 (Summer 2003) (with responses
and a rejoinder) (pdf version of article)
"The Bush Strategy in Historical Perspective," in James Wirtz and
Jeffrey Larsen, eds., Nuclear Transformation: The New U.S. Nuclear Doctrine (New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) (Word
version)
"The Iraq Crisis and the Future of the Western Alliance," in David
M. Andrews. ed., The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2005) (proofs
on pdf) (html version, more fully
footnoted, with direct links to documents cited). A forum
on this book (with certain comments on my article and with my response) was
published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 19:1 (March
2006).
"The Question of Realism: An Historian's View," Security
Studies, 13:1 (Fall 2003) (Word version)
(proofs on pdf)
Comment on Robert Jervis, "Security Studies: Ideas, Policy, and
Politics," in The Evolution of Political Knowledge: Democracy,
Autonomy, and Conflict in Comparative and International Politics, ed.
Edward D. Mansfield and Richard Sisson (Columbus: Ohio State University Press,
2004) (Word version)
Comment on Bruce Kuklick, "The Future of the Profession," part of
a forum (with Kuklick and Leo Ribuffo) on "The American Historical
Profession in the 21st Century," in Historically
Speaking, Sept.-Oct. 2004 (downloaded
version)
"The Marshall Plan as Tragedy," comment on Michael Cox and
Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy? Rethinking the
Marshall Plan," both published in the Journal of Cold War Studies,
7:1 (Winter 2005) (text
of comment on pdf) (text
of original article on pdf)
"The Problem of International Order and How to Think About It," The
Monist, 89:2 (April 2006), issue on the Foundations of International Order
(Bruce Kuklick, guest editor) (pdf
version)
"Preventive War and U.S. Foreign Policy," Security Studies, 16:1
(January-March 2007) (pdf
version). A slightly different version has also been published in Henry
Shue and David Rodin, eds., Preemption: Military Action and Moral
Justification (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)--this article, in
fact, was originally written for the Shue-Rodin book.
“The United States and Eastern Europe in 1945: A Reassessment,” Journal of Cold War Studies, 10:4 (Fall
2008) (pdf
version)
Selected
documents referred to in this article (html,
with links to documents)
H-Diplo
exchange with Eduard Mark:
Dr.
Mark’s comment in H-Diplo roundtable on Miscamble’s From Roosevelt to Truman, Sept. 10, 2007
(link);
see pp. 7-9
My
H-Diplo post of September 12, 2007 (link)
Dr.
Mark’s H-Diplo post of September 16, 2007 (posted Sept. 18) (link)
H-Diplo
roundtable on the “United States and Eastern Europe” article (link)
Comments
by Fraser J. Harbutt, James McAllister, Eduard Mark and Norman M. Naimark, plus
my reply
Reviews:
Stephen Schuker, The End of French Predominance in Europe, in the American
Historical Review [AHR], 1977
Ralph Levering, The Public and American Foreign Policy, in the Review
of Politics, 1978
Robert Collins, The Business Response to Keynes, in the Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science [AAAPSS], 1982
Anne Hogenhuis-Seliverstoff, Les Relations franco-soviétiques,
1917-1924, in the Journal of Modern History [JMH], 1983
Michael Carley, Revolution and Intervention: The French Government and the
Russian Civil War, 1917-1919, JMH, 1985
Fred Kaplan, The Wizards of Armageddon, AAAPSS, 1984 (pdf
version)
Paul Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914,
AAAPSS, 1984
Kathleen Burk, Britain, America and the Sinews of War, 1914-1918, in the
Journal of Economic History [JEH], 1985
Frank Costigliola, Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic and
Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933, JEH, 1985
Carole Fink, The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-1922, JMH,
1986
Robert A. Pollard, Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War,
1945-1980, JEH, 1986
Kalervo Hovi, Alliance de revers: Stabilization of France's Alliance
Policies in East Central Europe, 1919-1921, AHR, 1985
Janne E. Nolan, Guardians of the Arsenal: The Politics of Nuclear Strategy,
in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1990
John Mueller, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War, in Diplomatic
History, 1991 (Word version)
Melvyn Leffler, A Preponderance of Power, in Orbis, Summer 1995 (html version) (Word
version)
Paul Schroeder, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848, in Orbis,
Winter 1996 (html version) (Word version); and correspondence with Schroeder, Orbis,
Spring 1996 (Word version)
David Herrmann, The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War,
in the Journal of Modern History, September 1997 (pdf
version)
Lawrence Freedman, Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam,
in the Journal of Cold War Studies (Spring 2002) (Word
version) (pdf version)
Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate
Renewed, in The National Interest, Fall 2002 --(Word
version--as originally submitted except for some minor corrections, and
with footnotes)
Vojtech Mastny, “The 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: A Missed
Opportunity for Détente,” Journal of Cold War Studies (Winter
2008). (pdf
version of review) Review was published by H-Diplo on April 10, 2008.
Unpublished Papers and Other Material:
"France and Reparation: The First Phase," American Historical
Association Annual Meeting, 1976
"The Clémentel Plan in Historical Perspective," Western
Society for French History Annual Meeting, 1979
"France in the Ruhr, 1923," American Historical Association Annual
Meeting, 1979
"The Strange Death of Keynesian Economics," University of
Pennsylvania Economic History Workshop, 1983
"What is the Nuclear Question?" European-American Conference on
Ethical Aspects of Deterrence, Ebenhausen, 1986
Proceedings of the Hawk's Cay Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis,
March 5-8, 1987. Edited by David Welch. Available from the Center for
Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University. This contains some material I wrote on the missile crisis
based on the U.N. archives. (text)
"A Constructed Peace: The United States, the NATO Allies, and the
Making of the European Settlement, 1949-1963," first drafted for a seminar
at the University of Chicago Political Science Department, March 1993; also
presented at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, May 7, 1995, and
distributed as Working Paper 9 of the Volkswagen-Foundation Program in Post-War
German History, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies/German
Historical Institute (Washington), 1995. (Word
version) (html version)
"America, Germany and the Origins of the Cold War," (Word version). This was an outgrowth of a symposium
held at the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs in May
1999 chaired by Allen Lynch; my talk there was followed by comments by Carolyn
Eisenberg, Melvyn P. Leffler, Stephen A. Schuker and Philip Zelikow, and I then
got a chance to respond. A transcript was made (symposium
transcript in Word), and at one point there was a plan to publish the
symposium as a series of pieces in a scholarly journal. My piece here was
written for that purpose.
Comment on Adam Ulam, "A Few Unresolved Mysteries about Stalin and the
Cold War in Europe: A Modest Agenda for Research," Journal of Cold War
Studies 1:1 (Winter 1999), pp. 110-116; comment posted on H-Diplo,
October 10, 1999
"The Accidental War Question," paper presented at workshop on Organizational
Theory and International History, March 2-4, 2000, Center for International
Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. (Word
version) (PDF version). This was a response to
Scott Sagan's paper "Accidental War in Theory and Practice,"
presented at the same workshop (Word version).
Comment on Truman's alleged meeting with NATO foreign ministers on April 3,
1949, posted on H-Diplo, August 25, 2000
"American Grand Strategy During the Cold War and After,"
International Studies Association, Chicago, February 2001 (Session on
"American Grand Strategy in Europe from 1945 to the Present: Hegemon or
Off-Shore Balancer?") (Word version).
"Thinking about Terrorism: An Historian's View," November 2001 (Word version)
"The Future of the Western Alliance: An Historian's View," August
2004 (for a conference on the "History and Future of Transatlantic
Relations" held at Columbia University, September 2-3, 2004) (word version) (pdf version)
"The Structure of Great Power Politics, 1963-1975," September 1,
2006 (fully footnoted version; shorter version to be published in the Cambridge
History of the Cold War, vol. 2) (word
version)
“The French Factor in U.S. Foreign
Policy during the Nixon-Pompidou period, 1969-1974,” June 2009 (presented
at a conference in Paris, June 26-27, 2009)
Long version, with links to copies of most of the
documents cited (pdf)
Short version (for publication) (Word
version)
Talk given at the conference (in French) (Word
version)
List of most of the documents cited, with links to
copies (html)
Other Information:
Born: February 9, 1946, New York, NY
Work address: UCLA Department of Political Science, 4289 Bunche Hall, Los
Angeles, CA 90095-1472; (310) 267-1904
Home address: 655 Midvale Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Email: trachten@polisci.ucla.edu
Website: http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/trachtenberg/