How did human rights activists make this topic a key element of both late Cold War diplomacy and of détente?
SHAFR member Sarah Snyder discusses this issue in a 2011 panel discussion held at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
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As SHAFR members note in separate op-eds, recent events in Ferguson, Missouri carry international as well as domestic implications.
Mary Dudziak, author of Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, writes in Foreign Affairs, "Ferguson from Afar," that
After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, what, precisely, did Russia and the West agree on regarding the future of NATO. Mary Elise Sarotte examines the resulting dispute that "refuses to go away" in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Was there a "Broken Promise"?
This report was written for the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee under a short deadline in advance of the Committee’s first meeting on June 23, 2014. Given that the FOIA Advisory Committee will continue to meet for the next two years, we will have additional opportunities to weigh in on FOIA implementation.
FOIA Implementation Report
June 17, 2014
For the third annual year, the 2015 SHAFR Conference will feature a Job Search Workshop, designed to help our graduate students and recent Ph.D.s better navigate the challenging job market.
Travel Funding Opportunities
SHAFR has two travel funding grant programs for the 2017 conference, the Divine Graduate Student Travel Grants and the SHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grants. The deadline for both is December 1, 2016. Applicants who meet the criteria for both grants are welcome to apply for both.
Robert A. and Barbara Divine Graduate Student Travel Grants
On 6 August 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the first nuclear weapon used in warfare over Hiroshima, Japan. The historical debate over the reasons and ethical justifications for the bombing continues to this day. Today the SHAFR website looks at three aspects of this very large and complex topic--early 1946 coverage of the bombing, Japanese reactions to nuclear weapons through the prism of the 1954 movie Godilla, and the state, in 2014, of scholarly work on the role that nuclear weapons have played in international politics since Hiroshima.