Robert B. Rakove Program in International Relations 216 Encina Hall West, 417 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-6045 robr@stanford.edu Education PhD. in United States Diplomatic 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 European 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 1945-1979 (Ongoing Book Project) Journal Articles Two Roads to Belgrade: The United States, Great Britain and the First Nonaligned Conference, Cold War History 14, No. 3 (2014), 337-357. The Rise and Fall of Non-Aligned Mediation, International History Review (forthcoming, 2015) Chapters Relations with Nonaligned Nations in Asia and Africa, in The Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy: A Diplomatic History, ed. Robert J. McMahon and Thomas Zeiler (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2012).
Kennedy and the Nonaligned World, in A Companion to John F. Kennedy, ed. Marc Selverstone (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). 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 Daniel J. Sargent, A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s, in The American Historical Review (forthcoming). Review of Frank Leith Jones, Blowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War Strategy, in Journal of Cold War Studies (forthcoming). Review of David Caute, Isaac & Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, in Canadian Journal of History 50, No. 2 (Autumn 2015), 347-349. 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, 214-215. 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, Vol. 6, No. 2 (December 2013) 250-253. 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. Vol. 90, No. 1 (December 2013): 214-215. Review of Matthew Jacobs, Imagining the Middle East: The Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967, in Journal of American Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1 (February 2013): 285-287. 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, 1983-1986 (May 2012). Review of Stephen Rabe, John F. Kennedy, World Leader, in International Journal, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Summer 2011): 776-779. H-1960s: Response to Review of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (September 2013)
H-DIPLO Roundtable Response to Reviews of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (June 2013). Referee work for: Cambridge University Press, 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 Opinion pieces in 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, 2012- INTNLREL 168A, American Interventions 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 Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University, 2010-11 HIST 104, The United States Since 1877 HIST 315, United States Foreign Relations, 1776-1917 HIST 216, United States Foreign Relations Since 1917 HIST 217, The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975 HIST 479, Problems in the History of U.S. Foreign Policy Visiting Lecturer, Old Dominion University, 2009-10 HIST 104, The United States in a World Setting, 1607 to the Present Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, 2004-2007 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 1700-1917, 2004 Grader, University of Virginia, 2004 Gerald Haines and Timothy Naftali, HIST 361 Espionage and Intelligence in the 20 th Century. Fellowships and Awards John F. Richards Fellowship, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, 2013.
National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford California, 2013-2014 Post-Doctoral Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, 2011-2012. Summer Institute, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2010. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, 2008-09. Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, University of Virginia, 2007-08. Governing America in a Global Era Fellowship, Miller Center, University of Virginia, 2007. President s Fellow, University of Virginia, 2003-07. Graduate Teaching Award, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, 2006. Kennedy Research Grant, John F. Kennedy Library, 2006. Research Grant, Lyndon B. Johnson Library, 2006. Invited Presentations Equidistance and Advocacy: A Study of Afghan Nonalignment, at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Arlington, Virginia, June 2015. 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 2015. The Rise and Fall of Nonaligned Mediation, 1961-1966 at The Role of the Neutrals and Non- Aligned in the Global Cold War, 1949-1989 University of Lausanne, March 2014 How the Cold War Came to Afghanistan at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Social Science Seminar, Stanford University, March 6, 2014 No one can ever say we did not try to save this country : The Eisenhower Administration and Afghanistan, 1953-1961 at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Arlington, Virginia, June 2013 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 2012
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 2012. Lost Decade: The United States and Afghanistan's Constitutional Experiment, 1963-1973, at Contesting America, United States Studies Centre, Sydney, Australia, May 2012. 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 2011. 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 2010. 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 2009. 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, 2009. Getting the Worst of Both Worlds : Kennedy and Decolonization, invited presentation at The Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Columbus, Ohio, October 2008. 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 2008. From Belgrade to Cairo: The United States and the Nonaligned Conferences, at Miller Center Fellowship Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia, May 2008. A Genuine Departure? Robert W. Komer and American Policy toward the Nonaligned World, 1961-1966, at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Chantilly, Virginia, June 2007. Public Engagement 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 2015.
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