, Ph.D. Rubenstein Hall 130 T (919) 613-9560 302 Towerview Drive F (919) 681-8288 Box 90312 E simon.miles@duke.edu Durham, NC, 27708 Appointments 2017 Assistant Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University Education 2017 Ph.D., History, University of Texas at Austin 2011 M.A., History of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science 2010 B.A., History and International Relations, University of Toronto Book Manuscript Publications Engaging the Evil Empire : East-West Relations in the Second Cold War. Refereed Articles 2017 The War Scare That Wasn t: Able Archer and the Myths of the Second Cold War. Under review. 2016 Envisioning Détente: The Johnson Administration and the October 1964 Khrushchev Ouster. Diplomatic History, vol. 40, no. 4: 722 749. 2013 Carving A Diplomatic Niche? The April 1956 Soviet Visit to Britain. Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 24, no. 4: 579 596. Refereed Book Chapters 2018 The Domestic Politics of Superpower Rapprochement: Foreign Policy and the 1984 Presidential Election. In The Cold War at Home and Abroad: Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1945, edited by Andrew Johns and Mitchell Lerner. Forthcoming from the University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Page 1! of 7!
Invited Reviews 2017 Review of Presidential Doctrines: US National Security from George Washington to Barack Obama, by Joseph M. Siracusa and Aiden Warren (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, vol. 48, no. 2: 49. 2017 Review of Freedom Tide?: Ideology, Politics, and the Origins of Democracy Promotion in US Central America Policy, 1980 1984, by Evan McCormick (Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 16, no. 4: 60 109). H-Diplo. http://networks.h-net.org/ system/files/contributed-files/ar699.pdf. 2016 Review of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War, by Sergey Radchenko (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). H-War. http:// www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=44318. 2016 Review of Stalin s American Spy: Noel Field, Allen Dulles, and the East European Show Trials, by Tony Sharp (London: Hurst & Company, 2014). Intelligence and National Security, vol. 31, no. 4: 639 642. 2016 Review of Germany, America and the Shaping of Post Cold War Europe: A Story of German International Emancipation Through Political Unification, 1989 1990, by Kristina Spohr (Cold War History, vol. 15, no. 2: 221 243). H-Diplo. http:// networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/ar583.pdf. 2015 Review of The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev s Adaptability, Reagan s Engagement, and the End of the Cold War, by James Graham Wilson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013). International Journal, vol. 70, no. 2: 365 367. 2014 Review of Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire, by Eliga H. Gould (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012). International Journal, vol. 69, no. 3: 453 454. 2014 Review of European Security in NATO s Shadow: Party Ideologies and Institution Building, by Stephanie C. Hofmann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). International Journal, vol. 69, no. 2: 258 260. 2013 Review of Reagan on War: A Reappraisal of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980 1984, by Gail E.S. Yoshitani (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2012). Not Even Past. http://notevenpast.org/reagan-on-war-a-reappraisal-of-the-weinbergerdoctrine-1980-1984-by-gail-e-s-yoshitani-2012/. Other Publications 2016 Researching Through the Back Door: Field Notes from East of the Iron Curtain. Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, vol. 47, no. 1: 39 42. Page 2! of 7!
Fellowships & Grants 2016 Dean s Prestigious Fellowship Supplement, Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin 2016 World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship, Smith Richardson Foundation, no. 2016-1066 2015 Czech Studies Summer Scholarship, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin 2015 Dwight D. Eisenhower Clifford Roberts Fellowship, Eisenhower Institute, Gettysburg College 2015 O Donnell Grant, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University 2015 World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship, Smith Richardson Foundation, no. 2014-0300 2014 Doctoral Fellowship, 2014 2017 academic years, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, no. 752-2014-0678 2012 History Department Recruitment Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin Invited Talks 2018 The War Scare That Wasn t: Able Archer and the Myths of the Second Cold War. Presentation at the London School of Economics and Political Science Sciences Po Paris Seminar in Contemporary International History, London, United Kingdom. 7 March. 2018 Engaging the Evil Empire : East-West Relations in the Second Cold War. Presentation at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Chapel Hill, NC. 19 January. 2016 Engaging the Evil Empire : East-West Relations in the Second Cold War. Presentation at New Faces in International Security, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Chapel Hill, NC. 16 September. 2016 Engaging the Evil Empire : East-West Relations in the Second Cold War. Presentation at the Roberts Forum, Eisenhower Institute, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA. 3 February. 2014 The Past, Present, and Future of Russo-American Relations. Presentation at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 4 February. Page 3! of 7!
Conferences Organized Conference Activity 2017 Above and Beyond the Cold War: Ronald Reagan and the Transformation of Global Politics in the 1980s. William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 19 21 January. Panels Organized 2017 The End of the Cold War: New Evidence and New Approaches. Annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA. 24 June. 2017 From Grassroots Activism to Power Politics: Human Rights Ideas and Twentieth- Century International Relations. Annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Denver, CO. 8 January. 2016 Human Rights and US Foreign Policy in the Reagan Years. Annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, San Diego, CA. 24 June. 2015 Making Sense of Reagan s Foreign Policy: New Evidence and New Approaches. Annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA. 26 June. 2014 Reagan Reconsidered: US Foreign Policy in the Late Cold War. Annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Lexington, KY. 21 June. 2013 The Cold War After Stalin: New International Evidence. Annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA. 22 June. Papers Presented 2018 Bridges and Bridgekeepers: Western Intermediaries in Konstantin Chernenko s Kremlin. Paper presented at the biennial Maple Leaf and Eagle North American Studies Conference, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 16 May. 2017 The Beginning of the End: The Geneva Summit as Cold War Turning Point. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA. 24 June. 2017 Canada Among Superpowers: An International History of Pierre Trudeau s Peace Mission. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Toronto, ON. 30 May. 2017 The War Scare That Wasn t: Able Archer and the Myths of the Second Cold War. Revised paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Baltimore, MD. 22 February. Page 4! of 7!
2017 The War Scare That Wasn t: Able Archer and the Myths of the Second Cold War. Revised paper presented at Above and Beyond the Cold War: Ronald Reagan and the Transformation of Global Politics in the 1980s, William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 21 January. 2017 The Foreign Policy of Internal Politics: The Reagan Administration and Human Rights in the Soviet Union. Revised paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Denver, CO. 8 January. 2016 The War Scare That Wasn t: Able Archer and the Myths of the Second Cold War. Paper presented at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. 21 November. 2016 The Foreign Policy of Internal Politics: The Reagan Administration and Human Rights in the Soviet Union, 1981 1985. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, San Diego, CA. 24 June. 2016 Peace Through Strength?: Ronald Reagan s Early National Security Strategy and its Roots in Perceived US Weakness. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History, Ottawa, ON. 16 April. 2016 Quiet Diplomacy : The Reagan Administration s Initial Engagement with the Soviet Union. Revised paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA. 16 March. 2015 Researching Through the Back Door: Field Notes from East of the Iron Curtain. Paper presented at the William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 30 November. 2015 Quiet Diplomacy : The Reagan Administration s Initial Engagement with the Soviet Union. Revised paper presented at The Great Transformation? Reassessing the Causes and Consequences of the End of the Cold War, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. 24 September. 2015 Selling Rapprochement: Foreign Policy and the 1984 Presidential Election. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA. 26 June. 2015 Envisioning Détente: The Johnson Administration and the 1964 Ouster of Nikita Khrushchev. Revised paper presented at the Centre for the Study of the United States, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. 28 April. 2015 The Domestic Politics of Superpower Rapprochement: Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, and the Audience Costs Mechanism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA. 19 February. Page 5! of 7!
2014 Envisioning Détente: The Johnson Administration and the 1964 Ouster of Nikita Khrushchev. Revised paper presented at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. 6 October. 2014 Quiet Diplomacy : The Reagan Administration s Initial Engagement with the Soviet Union. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Lexington, KY. 21 June. 2013 Envisioning Détente: The Johnson Administration and the 1964 Ouster of Nikita Khrushchev. Paper presented at the William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 30 October. 2013 Carving A Diplomatic Niche? Examining the April 1956 Soviet Visit to Britain as a Missed Opportunity for Cold War Deescalation. Revised paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA. 22 June. 2013 Carving A Diplomatic Niche? Examining the April 1956 Soviet Visit to Britain as a Missed Opportunity for Cold War Deescalation. Paper presented at the London School of Economics and Political Science, George Washington University, and University of California at Santa Barbara International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, Washington, DC. 27 April. 2013 The Role of Face in Russo-American Relations: Lessons from the Conclusion of the Cold War and Prognoses for the Future. Paper presented at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 20 March. American Grand Strategy Global Cold War History of Espionage in the Twentieth Century US Foreign Relations, 1776 1914 US Foreign Relations, 1914 to the Present Duke University Teaching Repertoire Service 2017 Organizer, History and International Security Speaker Series, Duke University Program in American Grand Strategy. Page 6! of 7!
Manuscript Reviewer International Journal, International Security, Journal of Contemporary History Page 7! of 7!