Cold War

Guess you'll have to listen to it and respond.

I am looking to form a panel on how the National Security State developed during the Cold War for SHAFR 2019. My paper is entitled, "Nixon's War: Fighting the Institutional State." It will examine Nixon's attempts to centralize power in the presidency, and reshape the National Security State to maximize (his) presidential prerogatives.

Call for Submissions: The Bibliography of New Cold War History, Cold War History Research Center, Budapest

From: Csaba Bekes, Founding Director, Cold War History Research Center, Budapest.

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from the Cold War History Research Center, Budapest, which is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its foundation in December, 1998.

This is to invite H-Diplo readers to contribute to our unique scholarly enterprise:

I am organizing a panel on "The Late Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa" for SHAFR 2019, and am looking for one or two more panelists to join myself and another panelist. If you are interested in being part of this panel, please send an abstract and CV to balliso7@kent.edu.

"the propagandistic triumph of neoliberal capitalism"?

I sense that is not the only "propagandistic" thing about this podcast. It is worth pointing out that in this age of "neoliberal capitalism," the spread of human betterment to vast, formerly famine-endangered regions in Asia and other parts of the world has advanced more rapidly than at any time before in history. (See the work of Angus Maddison on this.) I wonder if the springs of that development, which is a fundamental feature of the modern world, are considered here. They should be.