Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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1 Robert B. Rakove Program in International Relations 216 Encina Hall West, 417 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, California Education PhD. in History, University of Virginia, 2008 Dissertation: A Genuine Departure: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World Advisor: Melvyn Leffler. Panel: Brian Balogh, William Quandt, Stephen Schuker M.A. in History, Stanford University, 2000 Thesis: Britain s Road to War after Munich: The Origins of the Polish Guarantee Advisors: Norman Naimark, Peter Stansky B.A. in Political Science (Minor in History), Stanford University, 1999 Phi Beta Kappa Graduated with Honors and Distinction Thesis: A Splendid Little Accidental War? Accidental War Theory and 1898 Advisor: Scott Sagan Publications Books Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Days of Opportunity: The United States, Afghanistan, and the Cold War (Ongoing) Journal Articles The Rise and Fall of Non-Aligned Mediation, International History Review 37, No. 5 (2015): Two Roads to Belgrade: The United States, Great Britain and the First Nonaligned Conference, Cold War History 14, No. 3 (August 2014):

2 Book Chapters Kennedy and the Decolonizing World Reconsidered, in Deprovincializing the U.S. Presidency: John F. Kennedy as Seen from the Decolonizing World, ed. Cyrus Schayegh (in progress). The Central Front of Reagan s Cold War: The United States and Afghanistan, , in Reagan s World: The Cold War and Beyond, eds. Jonathan Hunt and Simon Miles (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming). The United States and South Asia after Decolonization, in A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations, Colonial Era to the Present, ed. Christopher Dietrich (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley- Blackwell, forthcoming). The United States and Neutrality/Nonalignment, in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, eds. Jon Butler, Mark A. Lawrence (June 2016). Kennedy and the Nonaligned World, in A Companion to John F. Kennedy, ed. Marc Selverstone (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). Relations with Nonaligned Nations in Asia and Africa, in The Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy: A Diplomatic History, eds. Robert J. McMahon and Thomas Zeiler (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2012). Encyclopedia Entries Bandung Conference and Richard Cheney in The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy, ed. Gordon Martel (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018). The Non-Aligned Movement, in Scribner s Dictionary of American History (forthcoming). Richard M. Nixon, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History, ed. Timothy J. Lynch (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Book and Article Reviews Review of David C. Engerman, The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India, in the Journal of American History (forthcoming). H-DIPLO Review of Gregory Winger, The Nixon Doctrine and U.S. Relations with the Republic of Afghanistan, : Stuck in the Middle with Daoud, (forthcoming). H-DIPLO Review of Wen-Qing Ngoei, A Wide Anticommunist Arc : Britain, ASEAN, and Nixon s Triangular Diplomacy (May 2018). 2

3 Roundtable Review of Asa McKercher, Camelot and Canada: Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era, in H-DIPLO XVIII, No. 25 (2017) Review of Bruce Riedel, JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and Sino-Indian War, in H- ASIA, May Review of Daniel J. Sargent, A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s, in The American Historical Review 121, No. 1 (Feb. 2016): Review of Frank Leith Jones, Blowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War Strategy, in Journal of Cold War Studies 17, No. 4, (Fall 2015): Review of David Caute, Isaac & Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, in Canadian Journal of History 50, No. 2 (Autumn 2015): Reviews of Thurston Clarke, JFK s Last Hundred Days: An Intimate Portrait of a Great President, and Jeffrey D. Sachs, To Move the World: JFK s Quest for Peace, in International Affairs 90, No. 1 (January 2014): Review of Ryan M. Irwin, Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order, The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture 6, No. 2 (December 2013): Review of Jeffrey Sachs, To Move the World: JFK s Quest for Peace and Thurston Clark, JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President, International Affairs 90, No. 1 (December 2013): Review of Matthew Jacobs, Imagining the Middle East: The Building of an American Foreign Policy, , in Journal of American Studies 47, No. 1 (February 2013): H-DIPLO Roundtable Review of Philip Muehlenbeck, Betting on Africans: John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders (October 2012). H-DIPLO Review of Alexander Poster, The Gentle War: Famine Relief, Politics, and Privatization in Ethiopia, (May 2012). Review of Stephen Rabe, John F. Kennedy, World Leader, in International Journal, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Summer 2011): H-1960s: Response to Review of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (September 2014). H-DIPLO Roundtable Response to Reviews of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (June 2013). 3

4 Referee work for: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury Press, Brill, Cold War History, Diplomatic History, The Historical Journal, The Journal of Cold War Studies, The New England Journal of History, Humanity, The International History Review, The Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Opinion pieces in The New York Times (online), The San Francisco Chronicle, The Columbus Dispatch, The Canberra Times, The Australian, The National Interest (online), and Foreign Policy (online). Professional Experience Lecturer, Stanford University, GLOBAL 101, Introduction to Global Studies HISTORY 102, The International System INTNLREL 168A, American Interventions, 1898-Present INTNLREL 168, America as a World Power INTNLREL 154, The Cold War: An International History INTNLREL 173, Presidents and Foreign Policy in Modern History INTNLREL 174, Diplomacy on the Ground Senior Theses Supervised: Pablo A. Lozano, Why American Military Interventions Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Human Terrain System, 2018 Rachel Morrow, The Effect of Interpersonal Relationships on Intervention: A Case Study on United Kingdom and United States Heads of State, 2018 Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University, HIST 104, The United States Since 1877 HIST 315, United States Foreign Relations, HIST 216, United States Foreign Relations Since 1917 HIST 217, The United States in Vietnam, HIST 479, Problems in the History of U.S. Foreign Policy Visiting Lecturer, Old Dominion University, HIST 104, The United States in a World Setting, 1607 to the Present Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, David Coleman and Marc Selverstone, HIST 353, The Cold War, 2007 Robert Geraci, HIEU 364, Russia as a Multi-Ethnic Society, 2006 Jeffrey Rossman, HIEU 369, Revolutionary Russia, 2005 Jeffrey Rossman, HIEU 216, Russia Since 1917, 2005 Robert Geraci, HIEU 215, Russia ,

5 Grader, University of Virginia, 2004 Gerald Haines and Timothy Naftali, HIST 361 Espionage and Intelligence in the 20 th Century. Fellowships and Awards National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford California, John F. Richards Fellowship, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, Post-Doctoral Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Summer Institute, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, University of Virginia, Governing America in a Global Era Fellowship, Miller Center, University of Virginia, President s Fellow, University of Virginia, Graduate Teaching Award, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, Kennedy Research Grant, John F. Kennedy Library, Research Grant, Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Presentations 1979 Revisited: The United States, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, and the Collapse of Détente, at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June Keynote Address, John F. Kennedy and Engagement Reconsidered, at John F. Kennedy and the Third World: De-Provincializing the U.S. Presidency, Princeton University, May 6, The Central Front of Reagan s Cold War: The United States and Afghanistan, , at Ronald Reagan and the Transformation of Global Politics in the 1980s, the Clements Center, Austin, Texas, January 20,

6 The United States and Afghanistan before 2001, at the Clements Center for National Security, invited talk, Austin, Texas, February 12, Equidistance and Advocacy: A Study of Afghan Nonalignment, at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Arlington, Virginia, June The Limits of Modernization: The United States and Afghanistan s Constitutional Experiment in the Johnson and Nixon Years, at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, June The Rise and Fall of Nonaligned Mediation, at The Role of the Neutrals and Non-Aligned in the Global Cold War, University of Lausanne, March How the Cold War Came to Afghanistan at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Social Science Seminar, Stanford University, March 6, No one can ever say we did not try to save this country : The Eisenhower Administration and Afghanistan, at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Arlington, Virginia, June Scylla and Charybdis: The United States, Foreign Aid, and the Nonaligned World in the 1960s, at Inter-university United States Studies Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, July Two Roads to Belgrade: The United States, Britain, and the First Nonaligned Conference, at A True Alternative? The Nonaligned Movement in the Cold War, National Archives Belgrade, Serbia, May Lost Decade: The United States and Afghanistan's Constitutional Experiment, , at Contesting America, United States Studies Centre, Sydney, Australia, May We Will Get Wheat from Somewhere : Food Aid and the U.S.-Egyptian Relationship in the 1960s, at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Alexandria, Virginia, June Tough Love on the Periphery: The Kennedy Administration, Afghanistan, and the Pashtunistan Question, at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, June The Historical Imperatives of the Day : The Invasion of Goa in an International Context, at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Falls Church, Virginia, June Nonalignment and the Diffusion of Power: Kennedy's Response to the Challenge of Decolonization, at Empire at End: Global Transformations in the Late Cold War, The Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Columbus, Ohio, April 3,

7 Getting the Worst of Both Worlds : Kennedy and Decolonization, invited presentation at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Columbus, Ohio, October Less than Concrete Assistance : The United States and the African Frontline States in the 1960s, at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Columbus, Ohio, June From Belgrade to Cairo: The United States and the Nonaligned Conferences, at the Miller Center Fellowship Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia, May A Genuine Departure? Robert W. Komer and American Policy toward the Nonaligned World, , at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Chantilly, Virginia, June Public Engagement The Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe, Stanford Global Studies Summer Teaching Workshop, Stanford CA, June 2016 America and Empire, Stanford Global Studies Summer Teaching Workshop, Stanford CA, July 2015 The Origins of the Cold War, Gilder-Lehrman Institute Teaching Workshop, Ogden UT, March Professional Memberships and Service American Historical Association (AHA) Organization of American Historians (OAH) Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Membership Committee, Committee on Historical Documentation, Languages French German Czech (basic) 7