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Curriculum Vitae: Marc Trachtenberg (November 2020)
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, 2001-2015; Research Professor of Political Science,
University of California at Los Angeles, 2015- 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 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) A
roundtable discussion of this book appeared in H-Diplo in August 2000. To find the roundtable, search for the
title of the book on the H-Net search
engine; limit the search for the
logs for that month. The
Internet supplement includes a discussion of declassification
analysis, one of the methods used in the book, plus some additional
material relating to that subject posted in 2013, plus a number of appendices
to the book. 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). Chapter
1 (link) Chapter
4 (link) Whole
book (link)
A
roundtable discussion on "International Relations Theory and Diplomatic
History," focusing on a paper called “Theory
and Diplomatic History” (drawn from chapter two of this book), with
contributions by Robert
Jervis, Donald
Kagan, Eliot
Cohen, and Fraser
Harbutt, and also including 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). If that link doesn’t work, you can
search for the title of the book on the H-Net search engine. A
Chinese translation of this book was published in Taiwan in 2010 (link). A Japanese translation, with an
introduction for the Japanese reader, is due to be published shortly (link
to intro) The Cold
War and After: History, Theory, and
the Logic of International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2012) H-Diplo
also did a roundtable on this book. To find the roundtable, search for the
title of the book on the H-Net
search engine. Articles: "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) (link) "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) (pdf
version); selected documents with
introduction (pdf) "The
Question of No-First-Use," Orbis 29:4 (Winter 1986) (link) "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 (pdf
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 (pdf
version). 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). A somewhat revised
English-language version was published in the Cold War and After book. "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) (pdf
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). Another version of this paper was published in the Cold War and After book. "New
Light on the Cold War?" Diplomacy and Statecraft 12:4 (December
2001), 10-17 (Word
version) (pdf
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) (word
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) (pdf)
(reprinted as chapter 1 in The Cold War
and After; link) 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) (Google
Books) 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). This article was also republished in the Cold War and After book. "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: “The French Factor in U.S. Foreign Policy
during the Nixon-Pompidou period, 1969-1974,” Journal of Cold War Studies, 13:1 (Winter 2011) (pdf). This paper was originally presented at a
conference in Paris, sponsored by the Association Georges Pompidou, and held
on June 26-27, 2009. Long
version, with links to copies of most of the documents cited (pdf) Short
version (intended for publication in the conference volume) (Word
version) Talk
given at the conference (in French) (Word
version) List of most of the documents cited, with links
to copies (html) "The
Structure of Great Power Politics, 1963-1975" (short version), in Melvyn
Leffler and O.A. Westad, eds., Cambridge History of the Cold War, vol.
2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) (fully footnoted version: word
version). The fuller version also
appears in the Cold War and After book. “France and
NATO, 1949-1991,” Journal of
Transatlantic Studies, 9:3 (September 2011) (pdf)
(direct link) “Audience Costs: An Historical Analysis, Security Studies 21:1 (March 2012) (pdf)
(long
version) “The de Gaulle
Problem,” Journal of Cold War Studies 13:1
(Winter 2012) (pdf)
(word
version as submitted) “Robert Jervis and the Nuclear Question,” in
James W. Davis, ed., Psychology, Strategy and Conflict: Perceptions of
Insecurity in International Relations (Oxford: Routledge, 2013) (word
version) (Google
Books link) “History
Teaches,” Yale Journal of International
Affairs (September 2012) (pdf) “The State of
International History,” e-International
Relations (March 2013) (link)
(revised version of Oslo talk listed below); also published in H-Diplo, July
3, 2014 (link) “Transparency
in Practice: Using Written Sources,” Qualitative and Multi-Method
Research: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association's QMMR
Section 13, no.1 (Spring 2015)
(link)
(link to
whole issue) “Assessing
Soviet Economic Performance During the Cold War: A Failure of Intelligence?” Texas National Security Review 1, no.
2 (February 2018) (link) “Clémentel et la diplomatie économique pendant la Première Guerre mondiale,” in Marie-Christine
Kessler and Guy Rousseau, eds., Étienne Clémentel: Politique et action
publique sous la Troisième République (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2018) (link). (This is an abridged version of the 1977
article cited above) “Stumbling Around in
the Archives,” in Peter Krause and Ora Szekely, eds., Stories from the
Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork
in Political Science (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2020) (link). “The United States
and the NATO Non-extension Assurances of 1990: New Light on an Old Problem?” International
Security 45, no. 3 (Winter 2020/21) (pdf
of long version) Published Reviews: 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). This article led to a
short exchange of letters with Waltz:
Waltz to Trachtenberg, October 11, 2002 (pdf); Trachtenberg to Waltz, October 28, 2002 (Word); Waltz to Trachtenberg, December 4, 2002 (pdf); Trachtenberg to Waltz, December 19, 2002 (Word)
"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. (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) Review of
Vojtech Mastny, “The 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: A Missed Opportunity for
Détente,” Journal of Cold War Studies (Winter 2008). Review was
published by H-Diplo on April 10, 2008 (link
to review) “Social Scientists and National Security
Policymaking,” Feburary 2010 (for a conference held at Notre Dame in April
2010) (pdf) Review of John M. Schuessler, "The Deception
Dividend: FDR’s Undeclared War." International Security 34:4 (Spring 2010), in H-Diplo/ISSF Series on
International Security Studies (link). A number of messages dealing with the
issues raised in the Schuessler article were posted in H-Diplo in April
2010 (list with links). See especially Warren Kimball post, April
13, 2010 (link);
my April 20 reply (link);
Alonzo Hamby April 26 post (link);
my April 28 reply (link) Introduction to H-Diplo roundtable on Frédéric Bozo, Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification (New York: Berghahn
Books, 2009), April 26, 2010 (link). “The
State of International History: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where
We’re Going,” talk given August 23, 2010, at a conference on “International
Organizations and Institutions: Past and Future Prospects,” held at the
Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo (pdf) “An
Interview with Carl Kaysen” (published as an occasional paper by the MIT
Security Studies Program in November 2010) (pdf)
(link).
Transcript of full Kaysen interview (with some deletions) (link) “French Foreign Policy in the July Crisis, 1914: A
Review Article,” a discussion of Stefan Schmidt, Frankreichs Aussenpolitik in der Julikrise 1914: Ein
Beitrag zur Geschichte des Ausbruchs des Ersten Weltkrieges (Munich: Oldenbourg,
2009). H-Diplo/ISSF esssay series, no.
3, published in H-Diplo on December 1, 2010 (pdf)
(link) Introduction to H-Diplo Roundtable on Justin
Vaïsse, Neoconservatism: The Biography
of a Movement, (Cambridge, MA:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010), January 7, 2011 (link). Introduction to H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable on
Joseph Maiolo, Cry Havoc: How the Arms
Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941 (New York: Basic Books, 2010),
July 11, 2011 (link).
Comment
in H-Diplo Roundtable on Jonathan Haslam, Russia’s
Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), Dec. 7. 2011 (link
to full roundtable) (word
version of comment). “History
and Policy,” discussion paper written for a small conference on History,
Strategy, and Statecraft, sponsored by the Strauss Center of the LBJ School
at the University of Texas, and held in Austin, January 7-8, 2012 (word
version). Comment
on Jervis contribution to H-Diplo roundtable on Gaddis biography of George
Kennan, April 2012 (link) “Dan
Reiter and America’s Road to War in 1941,” H-Diplo/ISSF roundtable, vol. 5,
no. 4 (May 2013) (word
version) (whole
roundtable) “Audience
Costs in 1954?” H-Diplo/ISSF, September 2013 (H-Diplo/ISSF
version, with comments) (word
version with links) Comment
on H-Diplo/ISSF roundtable on “What We Talk About When We Talk About Nuclear
Weapons” (link—my
comment is about halfway down the page) (link
to original roundtable)(pdf version) “Kennedy,
Vietnam and Audience Costs” (November 2013) (link
to Word version) (link
to pdf of ISSF forum of which this was a part). Video of a talk on
this subject given at the University of Texas, March 19, 2013 “A Double Standard?”
(about Russian intrusion in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections). Originally published on January 10, 2017 a
guest post on Stephen Walt’s blog in ForeignPolicy.com
(link); slightly changed and footnoted version
published in H-Diplo/ISSF policy series on “America and the World—2017 and
Beyond,” on July 21, 2017 (link).
Interview with Swiss Radio on this article (link) “New
Light on 1914?” (October 2016) (link).
Published in H-Diplo/ISSF forum no. 16, September 2017 (link). Related paper: “Some Notes on British Policy in
1939” (link)
Introduction to H-Diplo Forum on Heather Jones and Richard
Smith, eds., “Sir Edward Grey and the Outbreak of the First World War,” special issue of International History
Review
38:2 (2016) (link to forum) Contribution to roundtable on Fred Kaplan’s The
Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the
Secret History of Nuclear War, H-Diplo, July 27, 2020 (link to whole roundtable).
Contribution to roundtable on Norman Naimark’s Stalin
and the Fate oof Europe: The Postwar Struggle
for Sovereignty, H-Diplo, September 21, 2020 (link to whole roundtable) Contribution to H-Diplo/ISSF Forum on the
Importance of White House Presidential Tapes in Scholarship, ed. Robert
Jervis and Diane Labrosse, November 2, 2020 (link to whole forum) Miscellaneous: I’m one of the people interviewed in Always/Never: The Quest
for Safety, Control and Survivability, a video produced in 2010 by Dan Curry from
the Sandia National Laboratory. The
video can be viewed on the National Security Archive website (link) and on YouTube (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) Information on
the Historical Society (now
defunct), a group I was involved in organizing; and other
material about the Historical Society and related issues. American
Historical Association Nuclear Freeze Resolution (December 1982) (from
AHA Perspectives, February 1983, p.
3); my
letter protesting the adoption of that resolution (from AHA Perspectives, April 1983, pp. 25-26) Report I
drafted opposing shift at UCLA from quarter to semester system (part of
successful effort) (February 2003) (link) Statement I
drafted opposing proposed “diversity” requirement at UCLA (part of failed
effort) (March 2015) (link) Current
adddress: UCLA Department of Political Science, 4289 Bunche Hall, Los
Angeles, CA 90095-1472 Email:
trachten@polisci.ucla.edu Website: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/trachtenberg |
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