curriculum vitae - Boston University · curriculum vitae Erik GOLDSTEIN Professor of International Relations, and of History Pardee School of Global Studies 152 Bay State Road Boston

curriculum vitae

Erik GOLDSTEIN

Professor of International Relations, and of History

Pardee School of Global Studies

152 Bay State Road

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts 02215

USA

[email protected]

EDUCATION

1980-84 Jesus College, University of Cambridge

1984 Ph.D. in History

1978 University of Oslo

1978 Scholarship and Certificate

1977-80 Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University (combined B.A.-M.A.

program).

1980 M.A. in International Affairs

1980 M.A.L.D. (Master of Arts in International Law & Diplomacy)

1980 Fields passed at Ph.D. candidacy level

1) European Diplomatic History and Foreign Policies; 2) Diplomatic History and Foreign

Policies of Communist Areas; 3) United States Diplomatic History and Foreign Policy; 4)

International Law

1974-78 Tufts College, Tufts University

1979 B.A. summa cum laude (History) and Phi Beta Kappa.

1970-74 Melrose High School

1974 Diploma, highest honors, History Prize, and Scholarship

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1976-80 Tufts University

1976-80 Tutor, Department of History

1981-84 University of Cambridge

1981-84 Supervisor, History of Development of the International System

1984-98 University of Birmingham

1984-87 Lecturer (temporary) in International History

1987-88 Lecturer 'A' in International History

1988-90 Lecturer 'B' in International History

1990-93 Senior Lecturer in International History

1993-97 Reader in International History

1997-98 Professor of International History

1998-present Boston University

1998-present Professor of International Relations (and History, 2005)

1998-2010 Chair, Dept. of International Relations (now Pardee School of Global Studies)

Concurrent Appointments:

1988-94 Associate Member, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies,

University of Birmingham.

1988, 1993 Visiting Scholar, Centre for International Studies, University of Cambridge.

1990-91 Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow, US Naval War College.

1995-2005 Hon. Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Leicester.

1996 Visiting Lecturer, University of Buckingham.

1998 Deputy Director, Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy, University of

Birmingham

1999-2009 Hon. Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

1999-2009 Hon. Fellow, Center for Studies in Security and Diplomacy, University of

Birmingham

1999-present Senior Fellow, International History Institute, Boston University

2007-present Fellow, Institue for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, Boston

University.

2009-present Affiliated Faculty, Division of Religious and Theological Studies, Boston

University.

2009 (Spring) Visiting Professor, Dept. of History, University of East Anglia.

2010-11 Visiting Professor, Dept. of History, University of East Anglia.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Editor:

1988-2007 Diplomacy and Statecraft. Vols. I-XVIII

2014 Guest Editor, Special Issue, ‘Richard Langhorne and Issues in Global Politics’

25:1 (March 2014): 1-155, 192-4.

Advisory Editor:

2012-14 Advisory Editor for International Relations, Oxford on Line Bibliographies, Oxford

University Press.

Books:

1990 The End of the Cold War. (London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, and Portland: Cass, 1990) (co-

editor), 220pp.

1991 Winning the Peace: British Diplomatic Strategy, Peace Planning, and the Paris Peace

Conference, 1916-1920. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University

Press, 1991). 307pp.

1992 Wars and Peace Treaties. (London and New York: Routledge, 1992). 264pp.

1994 The Washington Conference, 1921-22: Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability, and the Road

to Pearl Harbor (London and Portland: Cass & Co., 1993) (co-editor). 319pp. Hardback

and paperback editions.

1999 The Munich Crisis: New Interpretations and the Road to World War II (co-editor)

(London: Cass, 1999). Hardback and paperback editions.

2002 Guide to International Relations and Diplomacy (co-editor)(Continuum, 2002), 567pp.

(Arabic translation, forthcoming)

2002 The First World Wars Peace Settlements: international relations, 1918-25 (London:

Longmans, 2002).

Italian translation: Gli accordidi pace dopo la Grande guerra, 1919-25 (Milan: il Mulino,

2005).

2003 Power and Stability: British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965 (co-editor) (London, Cass,

2003).

In Progress:

The Great Powers and the East Mediteranean World, 1798- present.

Discussion Papers

1997 The Politics of the State Visit [Diplomatic Studies Programme Discussion Papers no. 26]

(Leicester: Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, 1997). 27pp.

Reprinted in Diplomacy, vol. II, Diplomacy, C. Jönsson and R. Langhorne, (London:

Sage, 2004).

Articles & Chapters

1987 'British Peace Aims and the Eastern Question: The Political Intelligence Department and

the Eastern Committee, 1918.' Middle Eastern Studies 23:4 (1987): 419-36.

1988 'New Diplomacy and the New Europe at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919: The

A.W.A. Leeper Papers.' East European Quarterly 21:4 (1988): 393-400.

1988 'The Foreign Office and Political Intelligence, 1917-20.' Review of International Studies

14:4 (1988): 275-88.

1989 'Quis Separabit: The Order of St. Patrick and Anglo-Irish Relations, 1922-1934.'

Historical Research 62:147 (1989): 70-80.

1989 'Great Britain and Greater Greece, 1917-20.' Historical Journal 32:3 (1989): 339-56.

1989 'Megale Vrettania kai e Megale Ellas', Eleftheria (27 Nov. 1989).

1990 'Historians Outside the Academy: The Experience of the Foreign Office Historical

Section, 1917-1920.' Historical Research (1990): 195-211.

1991 'Holy Wisdom and British Foreign Policy, 1918-1922: the St. Sophia Redemption

Agitation' Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 15 (1991): 36-64.

1993 'The Evolution of British Diplomatic Strategy for the Washington Conference, 1921-22'

Diplomacy & Statecraft 4:3 (1993): 4-34.

1995 'The New Europe and the New Greece' in P. Carabott, ed. Greece and Europe in the

Modern Period: aspects of a troubled relationship (London: Centre for Hellenic Studies,

1995), pp. 38-54.

1996 'British Diplomatic Strategy and the Locarno Conference' in M. Dockrill and B.J.C.

McKercher, Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1951

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 115-35.

1996 ‘The Origins of Summit Diplomacy’ in David Dunn, ed. Diplomacy at the Highest Level:

the evolution of international summitry. [Studies in Diplomacy] (London: Macmillan,

1996), pp. 23-37.

1997 ‘The British Official Mind and Europe’ Diplomacy & Statecraft 8:3 (Nov. 1997): 165-78.

1997 ‘The British Official Mind and the United States, 1919-42’ in T. Otte and C. Pagedas,

eds. Personalities, War and Diplomacy (London: Cass, 1997), pp.66-80.

1998 ‘The Round Table and the New Europe’ The Round Table 346 (1998): 177-189.

1998 ‘Greece: the imperatives of geopolitics’ Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 22 (1998):

169-184.

1998 ‘Developments in Protocol’in J. Kurbalija, ed. Modern Diplomacy (Malta: Mediterranean

Academy of Diplomatic Studies, 1998), pp. 49-56.

1998 ‘The New Europe and the Round Table’ in A. Bosco and A. May, ed. The Round Table:

The Empire/ Commonwealth and British Foreign policy (London: South Bank

University Press and the Lothian Foundation Press, 1998), pp. 437-50.

1998 'The Peacemakers and the British Homefront' in M. Boemke, et al.Germany and

Versailles: A Reassesssment after Seventy-Five Years German Historical Institute Series

(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp.147-66.

1999 ‘Neville Chamberlain, The British Official Mind and the Munich Crisis’, Diplomacy &

Statecraft 10:2 (1992): 276-92. And in Erik Goldstein and Igor Lukes, The Munich

Crisis: New Interpretations and the Road to World War II (co-editor) (London: Cass,

1999). Hardback and paperback editions.

2000 ‘Europe and Interaction with the Non-European World since 1945’(co-author) in M.

Fullbrook, ed., Europe Since 1945: Short Oxford History of Europe (Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2000), pp. 240-274.

2001 ‘The Eastern Question: The Last Phase’ in M. Dockrill and J. Fisher, The Rise and Fall of

Morality in Peacemaking’ (London: Palgrave in association with the Public Record

Office, 2001), pp. 141-55.

2003 ‘Britain and the First Cold War’, in M. Hopkins et al, eds. Britain and the Cold War,

1945-1964: New Perspectives (London: Palgrave Macmillan Cold War History Series),

pp. 7-14, 193-5.

2003 ‘Disarmament, Arms Control, and Arms Reduction’ in M. Henessey and BJC

McKercher, eds. War in the Twentieth Century: reflections at century's end (Westport:

Praeger Studies in Diplomacy and Strategic Thought, 2003).

2003 ‘The British Official Mind and the Lausanne Conference, 1922-23’ Diplomacy &

Statecraft 14:2 (June 2003): 185-206.

2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)

George Clerk, vol. 12, pp. 43-5.

Laurence Collier, vol 12, pp. 654-5.

Archibald Clark Kerr, vol. 31, pp. 409-10

Geoffrey Knox, vol. 32, pp. 224-5.

AWA Leeper, vol. 33, pp. 141-2.

James Headlam-Morley, vol. 39, pp. 224-5.

William Tyrrell, vol. 55, pp. 807-10.

Victor Wellesley, vol. 58, pp. 46-7.

2007 'The Versailles System' in Gordon Martel, ed. Companion to International History, 1900-

1945 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007; paperback edition, 2010)

2008 'Politics of the State Visit' Hague Journal of Diplomacy 3:2 (2008): 153-78.

2009 ‘Religion and British policy towards the Ottoman Empire, 1875-1923’ Keith Robbins and

John Fisher, Relgion and Diplomacy: Religion and British Foreign Policy, 1815 to 1941

in series New Directions in Diplomatic History (Dordrecht: Republic of Letters, 2009)

2010 ‘Origins of the Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1880-1914’ in Gaynor Johnson,

ed. Peacemaking, Peacemakers and Diplomacy 1880-1939. Essays in Honour of

Professor Alan Sharp (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 3-16.

2011 ‘Writers, the Clergy, and the “Diplomatization” of Culture: The Sub-Structures of Anglo-

American Diplomacy, 1820-1914, with M. Hall, in Anthony Best and John Fisher, On

the Fringes of Diplomacy (London: Ashgate, 2011) pp. 127-54.

2011 ‘Redeeming Holy Wisdom: Britain and St. Sophia’ in Melanie Hall, ed. Towards World

Heritage:International Origins of the Preservation Movement, 1870-1930 in series

Heritage, Culture and Identity (London: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 45-62.

2012 ‘ “A prominent place would have to be taken by history”: The Origins of a Foreign Office

Historical Section’ in T.G. Otte, ed. Diplomacy and Power: Studies in Modern

Diplomatic Practice (London: Ashgate, 2012).

2014 ‘Diplomacy in the Service of History: Anglo-American Relations and the Return of the

Bradford History of Plymouth Colony, 1898’, Diplomacy & Statecraft 25:1 (March

2014): 26-40. [Special Issue, E. Goldstein and G. Johnson, eds. ‘Richard Langhorne and

Issues in Global Politics’]

2014 ‘A World Without a Hotline: War 1914’, Special Feature: World War I: 100 Years Later,

Asteion 80 [Japan]: 36-46.

Encyclopaedia Articles

1998 'Konrad Adenauer' in D. Dinan, ed. Encyclopaedia of the European Union (Washington:

Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998), pp. 5-6.

2000 ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’ in G. Speake, ed. Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, vol. II,

(London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), pp. 1702-03;

2000 ‘Ioannis Metaxas’ in G. Speake, ed. Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, vol. II,

(London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), pp. 1043-44.

2002 ‘The Treaties of London’ World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago, 2002), and numerous

subsequent electronic editions.

2008 ‘Germany-United States Treaty (1921)’ Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, ) vol. IV, pp.452-3.

e—edition, 2008 (www.mpepil.com )

Selected Research Communications and Notes:

1986 ‘Hertford House: The Naval Intelligence Geographical Section and Peace Conference

Planning, 1917-1919.’ The Mariner's Mirror 72:1 (1986): 85-88.

1990 ‘A Chronology of the Cold War’. Diplomacy and Statecraft 1:3 (1990): 203-13.

‘Diplomatic Studies in Britain’ Diplomatic Studies Programme Newsletter

Book Reviews:

in RUSI Journal, Journal of Communist Studies, French Historical Studies, International

History Review, Modern Greek Studies, African Affairs, International Journal of Middle East

Studies, H-Diplo, International Affairs, Mediterranean Quarterly.

1986 Alvin Coox, Nomonhan in RUSI Journal 186 (1986).

1990 John Ferris, Men, Money, and Diplomacy: The Evolution of British Strategic Foreign

Policy, 1919-1926 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989) in International History

Review: 12:1 (Feb. 1990): 172-174.

1990 B. J. C. McKercher, Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography (New York: Cambridge

University Press, 1989) in International History Review: 12:1 (Feb. 1990): 615-617.

1993 Mark Mazower, Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis (Oxford: Clarendon Press,

1991) in Journal of Modern Greek Studies 11:2 (Oct. 1993): 301-02.

1995 Fred Marte, Political Cycles in International Relations: The Cold War and Africa 1945-

1990 (UV Uitgeverij [Free University], 1994) in African Affairs 94:376 (Jul. 1995): 454-

55.

1995 A.L. Macfie. The Straits Question, 1908-36 (Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies,

1993) in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Nov., 1995), pp.

518-519.

2011 Andrew Duffy, Eleftherios Venizelos, [Series: Makers of the Modern World: the peace

conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath] (London: Haus, 2010) in H-Diplo.

2011 Jeremy Black, A History of Diplomacy (London: Reaktion Books, 2010) in International

Affairs (Jan. 2011).

2012 Harry J. Psomiades. Fridtjof Nansen and the Greek Refugee Crisis, 1922-1924.

(Bloomingdale: The Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center, 2011) in

Mediterranean Quarterly 23:4 (Fall 2012): 135-7.

2013 Andrew Stewart. A Very British Experience: Coalition, Defence and Strategy in the

Second World War in Global War Studies 10:1 (2013): 108-09.

Selected Additional Writings:

1988 'Eirikur Benedikz' The Times

1988 'Eirikur Benedikz' The Independent

1989 'Mastering International Studies.' The Birmingham Magazine 1 (July 1989):14c

1989 ‘Great Britain and Greater Greece (1917-1920) [Mεγάλη Bρετνία και Μεγάλη Ελλάα

(1917-1920)] Eletheria 27 November 1989.

1992 'H S Ferns' The Independent

'President Vigdis Finnbogadottir' The Times, [file copy]

2000 ‘Preface’, Occasional Lecture (Boston: Boston University, The University Professors,

2000)

2005 'The Anglo-American Century' Capturing History (Gottlieb Archival Research Center,

Boston University, 2005)

2014 ‘Un digno relevo’ La Razón, 4 June 2014, p. 39.

2014 ‘Por qué perduran las monarquías europeas’ La Razón, 22 June 2014, p. 22.

Editorial Boards

1988-present Diplomacy & Statecraft

1996-2005 Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies

2001-2012 Diplomatic Studies Discussion Papers

2009-present New Directions in Diplomatic History

2011-present International History Review

2011-present Hague Journal of Diplomacy

2012-present Higher Education Advisory Board, Churchill Archive and Bloomsbury Press

Book Series Editor

1998- 2005 International History (New York: Praeger).

Kawanmura, Noriko, Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations during World

War I (2000).

Wend, Henry. Recovery and Restoration: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Politics of

Reconstruction of West Germany’s Shipbuilding Industry, 1945-1955 (2001).

Brogi, Alessandro. A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War

Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958 (2001)

Kochavi, Noam. A Conflict Perpetuated: China Policy During the Kennedy Years

(2002).

Whitham, Charlie. Bitter Rehersal: British and American Plannoing for a Post-War West

Indies (2002).

Strang, Bruce. On the Fiery March: Mussolini Prepares for War (2003)

Priest, Tyler. Global Steel and the U.S. Quest for Manganese (2003).

Ellis, Sylvia. Britain, America, and the Vietnam War (2004).

Tilchin, William and Charles Neu. Artists of Power: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow

Wilson, and their Enduring Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy (2005).

1999- 2006 Diplomats and Diplomacy (London: Cass)

Hopkins, Michael. Oliver Franks and the Truman Administration: Anglo-American

Relations, 1948-1952. (2003).

Johnson, Gaynor, ed. . Locarno revisited: European diplomacy, 1920-1929 (2004).

Protheroe, Gerald. Sir George Clerk (2006)

COURSES TAUGHT

University of Birmingham

Introduction to Problems of World History in the Twentieth Century.

Diplomatic History of the Twentieth Century.

Graduate Diplomatic History of the Twentieth Century.

Intelligence and International History

Great Powers in the East Mediteranean

Boston University

Diplomacy & Statecraft

The Great Powers in the Eastern Mediterranean

Empire and Power: British Foreign Policy, 1782-present

History of International Relations, 1900-1945

Adjunct Courses

History of British Foreign Policy. Tufts University London Program (1985-88)

International Relations, 1945-present. University of Buckingham. (1996)

Short Courses:

Britain & the United States: Sources of Power, Internal Conditions, and Foreign

Policies, 1700 present, Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge (1985-90).

British Intelligence & British Diplomacy, Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge (23-

25 March 1990).

The British Secret Services, Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge (July 1996)

Professional Courses

1993 co-director, South African Diplomatic Training Programme (Sep.-Dec. 1993).

1995 co- director, British Council Seminar: Diplomacy in the Post Cold War Era (22-30 Mar.

1995).

1998 co-director, Mid-Career Diplomats Course, Know How Fund Programme (Mar.-Apr.

1998).

1998 co-director, Conference on Diplomatic Training for Directors of Personnel and Heads of

Diplomatic Training, Know How Fund Programme of Diplomatic Studies, Wilton Park

(14-26 June 1998).

1998 co-director, Course on European Issues and Institutions, Know How Fund Programme of

Diplomatic Studies, Brussels, Luxembourg, Strassbourg, (16-19 Nov. 1998).

1999 co-director, Course on Public Diplomacy, Know How Fund Programme of Diplomatic

Studies, Wilton Park (20-25 June 1999).

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS & SOCIETIES

Learned Societies:

1978 Phi Beta Kappa Society

2002-08 President, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Epsilon of Massachusetts

1992 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Boards & Committees:

1992-99 Executive Committee, British International History Group

1996-97 Thesis Prize Committee

1994-2000 Advisory Board, Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, University of Leicester

1994-97 Standing Committee on Modern Greek Studies

1996-97 Convenor, British International Studies Association / Political Studies Association

Group on Diplomacy

1996-2000 Co-Director, Diplomatic Studies Programme

2002-present Advisory Board, Center for Global Change and Governance), Rutgers University

2010-present Governing Board, International Baccalaureate Organization

member, Governance Committee, Education Committee

2012-present Advisory Board, Friends of the Libraries of Boston University

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Manuscript referee for: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Manchester

University Press, Royal Historical Society, Contemporary Modern

History, Historical Association, Macmillans, Unwin Hyman, SAGE,

Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, Arms Control, Frank Cass,

Praeger, International Studies Perspectives, Taylor & Francis,

Ashgate, Contemporary European History, Bloomsbury, Intelligence

and National Security, Global War Studies, International History

Review.

Research proposal referee: Canadian Department of National Defence (1991), Social Science

Research Council of Canada (2001, 2003), Royal Military College of

Canada (2000, 2003, 2005), Economic and Social Science Research

Council, U.K. (2009), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2012)

Promotion Assessor: University of Liverpool (2001, 2003, 2005), University of Alberta

(2001), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998), University of

Birmingham (2003, 2006), Ben Gurion University (2004), Kings

College, London (2006, 2007), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

(2006), University of Salford (2011), University of East Anglia (2011)

Program Reviewer: Mediterranean Studies, King's College London (2002); Education for

Public Inquiry and International Citizenship Program, Tufts University

(2003)

External Examiner:

Research Degrees:

University of Salford (1988)

University of Cambridge (1989)

London School of Economics (1994, 1998)

King’s College, London (1998)

Degree Programmes:

1993-97 King's College, London (BA & MA in Modern Greek Studies).

1997-98 Bolton Institute (MA in Modern History).

1997-98 University of Southampton (MA in American Studies).

1997-98 University of Durham, (MA in Politics and International Relations).

AWARDS and GRANTS

1979-80 Fletcher Fellow, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy

1979-80 Fletcher International Security Studies Research Fellowship Grant

1979 University of Oslo Summer Term Scholarship, Norway

1980-83 Overseas Research Students Scholarship

1981-83 Bane Fund Grant, Jesus College, Cambridge

1981 Cambridge Historical Society Grant

1983 Smuts Memorial Fund Travel Grant

1988 Faculty Research Grant, Birmingham

1990-91 Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow, United States Naval War College

1992 Hoover Presidential Library Fellow

1992 School of Social Sciences Research Grant

1992 Departmental Capital Grant for Research

1992 Wardrop Fund Grant, University of Oxford

2001 Smith Richardson Foundation

COMMITTEES:

1) UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (1984-98)

University Committees:

1987-90 Senior Common Room Committee

Faculty Committees:

1985-88 Board of Graduate Studies

1987-88 Faculty Research Committee

1992-94 Faculty Board

1992 Salaries and Promotions Committee

1995- 97 International Affairs Committee

1996-97 Promotions Committee

School Committees:

1992-94 Board of the School of Social Sciences

1994 Computer Equipment Sub-Committee

1997-98 School Executive Committee

Department Committees:

1985-89 Departmental Sub-Committee on Finance

1987-88 Departmental Sub-Committee on Planning

1992-94 Departmental Research Committee

1992-94 Departmental Graduate Studies Committee

1993-94 chair

1992-94 Planning and Resources Committee

Other:

1989-90 Modern History Seminar Committee

1992 University delegation to the Republic of Uzbekistan

1993 Committee on Training of multi-racial South African diplomatic service

2) BOSTON UNIVERSITY (1999-present)

University

2000-03 Metropolitan College Summer School Advisory Committee

2000-02 Advisory Board, Institute for Religion and World Affairs

2005-09 Steering Committee, Global Health Initiative

2008-10 University Research Council

2011-13 University Academic Promotion and Tenure Committee

College Committees

1999-01 Search Committee, Chair and Professor of History (external member)

2000-01 Internal Audit, Center of Energy and Environmental Studies

ADMINISTRATION

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (1984-98)

Graduate School of International Studies

1985-88 Deputy Director

1989-90, 93-94 Director

School of Historical Studies

1997-98 Deputy Head, School of Historical Studies

Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy

1998 Deputy Director

BOSTON UNIVERSITY (1998-present)

Department of International Relations

1998- 2010 Chair, Dept. of International Relations

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES

University of Birmingham

1993 Mentorship

1997 Academic Staff Appraisal

SEMINAR PAPERS and PUBLIC LECTURES

1986 'The Role of Political Intelligence: Diplomatic Planning for the Paris Peace Conference,

1919', Contemporary History Seminar, University of Salford,

26 Feb. 1986

1987 'Great Britain and Greater Greece, 1916-1920',

Centre for Byzantine Studies & Modern Greek, University of Birmingham, 7 May

1987

Oxford Modern Greek History Workshop, 19 Nov. 1987

Modern Greek History Seminar, University of Cambridge, 10 November 1988

1989 'Greek Foreign Policy since the Second World War',

Standing Conference on Modern Greek Studies,

4 March 1989

1989 'Greece and the Imperatives of Geopolitics, 1974-89',

Conference on Contemporary Greece: The Hellenic Republic at Fifteen Years,

Tufts University,

22 April 1989

1990 'The Peace Settlement and Europe's Future',

College of Naval Command & Staff,

1 October 1990

1990 'Britain at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919',

Research Seminar, Dept. of Strategy & Policy,

Naval War College,

13 December 1990

1991 'The International System, 1871-1914',

College of Naval Warfare,

17 January 1991

1991 'War Termination',

College of Naval Warfare,

28 January 1991

1991 ‘The Zulu War',

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island,

7 February 1991.

1992 'The Political Intelligence Department and the Reshaping of Eastern Europe',

North American British Studies Conference,

New York City, NY

4 April 1992.

1992 'The Heritage of the Nineteenth Century',

Bar Convent Museum, York,

2 June 1992.

1992 'The Political Intelligence Department and British Foreign Policy,1917-45',

Inaugural Pan-European Congress, European International Studies Association

Conference, University of Heidelberg, Germany,

16 September 1992

1992 'The New Europe Group and the Political Intelligence Department' ,

British International Studies Association Conference on International History,

University of Leeds,

26 September 1992

1992 'The New Europe and the Balance of Power',

Research Seminar, Department of Political Science & International Studies,

University of Birmingham,

5 November 1992

1992 'The New Europe and the New Greece',

Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College, London,

9 November 1992

1992 Holy Wisdom and British Foreign Policy, 1918-22: The St Sophia Redemption

Agitation',

Centre for Byzantine Studies & Modern Greek, University of Birmingham,

19 November 1992.

1993 'The Political Intelligence Department and the Origins of International History',

Historians and Foreign Policy: Conference in Honour of DC Watt, Stevenson

Professor of International History, London School of Economics,

July 1993.

1993 'The Origins of the First World War',

Historical Association,

November 1993.

1994 'Venizelos and the New Europe',

University of St. Andrews,

15 February 1994.

1994 'Venizelos and the New Europe’,

University of Aberdeen,

1994

1994 'Britain and the Home Front, 1919',

German Historical Institute,

Uiniversity of California, Berkley

April 1994

1994 'Diplomacy and Intelligence',

Centre for Political & Diplomatic Studies, Oxford,

July 1994

1994 'The Origins of Summitry',

Diplomacy Research Seminar,

University of Birmingham,

2 December 1994.

1995 'The British Official Mind & Europe',

Pan-European Congress, European International Studies Association Conference,

Paris

September 1995.

1995 'Britain & Europe, 1900-50',

Royal Historical Society,

London,

22 September 1995.

1995 'The St. Sophia Agitation of 1919',

University of Bristol,

8 November 1995.

1996 'Holy Wisdom and British Foreign Policy at Constantinople',

University of Glasgow,

20 February 1996.

1996 'The Round Table and the New Europe',

Lothian Foundation, London,

23 March 1996.

1996 'The Role of the State Visit',

International Studies Association, San Diego CA,

18 April 1996.

1997 'The State Visit and International Relations',

Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, University of Leicester,

21 February 1997

1997 'The Inheritance of the 20th Century',

Nottingham Trent University,

19 March 1997.

1997 ‘Churchill and Intelligence’,

University of Cambridge,

11 July 1997.

1997 ‘Britain and the First Cold War’,

Institute of Contemporary British History, London,

July 1997.

1997 ‘The Heritage of the 19th Century’,

Nottingham Trent University,

November 1997

1997 ‘The Politics of State Visits’,

British International Studies Association, Leeds,

December 1997.

1998 ‘The Perils of Protocol’,

Mediterranean Diplomatic Academy, Malta February 1998

1999 ‘Disarmament, Arms Control and Arms Reduction’,

Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario

19 March 1999

1999 ‘The Eastern Question: the Last Phase’

Public Record Office, London,

26 June 1999.

2001 ‘Iceland and the United States’ (US State Dept. Speaker)

Symposium marking 50th

Anniversary of Iceland-United States Alliance,

Reykjavik, Iceland,

4 May 2001

2001 “Greek-Turkish Relations, 1945-2001’,

10th

International Summer Seminar, Institute of International Relations,

Hydra, Greece, 5 July 2001

2002 ‘The Great Powers and the Eastern Mediterannean World’,

Falmouth Forum,

Jan. 2002.

2002 ‘The Evolution of Diplomacy’ Summitry Conference,

Diplomatic Studies Program, Boston University,

30 March 2002.

2002 ‘The Eastern Question: The Last Phase’,

International History Seminar, Boston University,

May 2002

2002 ‘Alliance in Transformation: The United States – European Alliance’

Association for Western Co-operation (Samtök un Vestræna Samvinnu), Reykjavik

30 Nov. 2002

2005 ‘Britain in the Footprint of the Ottoman Empire’

Keynote lecture, British International History Conference, Cambridge

Sep. 2005

2006 'Saving Holy Wisdom: Britain and St. Sophia'

International Origins of the Preservation Movement, Boston University

April 2006

2007 ‘Britain in the Footprint of the Ottoman Empire’

European Studies Seminar, Boston University

Sep. 2005

2007 ‘Versailles as a System’

From the Great War to the Peace Settlement, 1918-1919: A Retrospective

Evaluation, Boston University

23 March 2007

2008 ‘British Plans for Succeeding the Ottoman Empire, 1918-22'

Center for European Studies, Harvard University,

25 Apr. 2008.

2008 ‘Great Britain and the Re-emmergence of Armenian Statehood’

Conference on The Legacy of the First Armenian Republic, 1918-21, Boston

University

27 Sep. 2008

2009 ‘Saving St. Sophia: Britain, Nationalisms, Religion, and the Ottoman Empire‘

From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the “Heritage” of Empire, 1820-1940,

Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, King’s College, Cambridge

22 Mar. 2009.

2009 ‘The World at the End of the Second World War’

International History Seminar, University of East Anglia

23 Mar. 2009.

2009 ‘Great Britain and Armenia, from the Nineteenth Century to the First Republic.

Keynote, National Association of Armenian Studies

16 May 2009

2010 'Britain's Plans for a New Eastern Mediterranean Empire, 1916-23.'

Keynote, Re-thinking the Middle East: Values, Interests and Security Concerns in

Western Policies Towards Iraq and the Wider Region, 1918-2010, British Academy

18 March 2010

2010 ‘Religion and British Foreign Policy: the case of St. Sophia, 1821-1922’

British International History Conference, Oxford

11 Sep. 2010

2010 ‘The United Kingdom, the United States and the First Gulf War’ Dept. of Politics and

Contemporary History, University of Salford.

29 Nov. 2010

2011 ‘The Paris Peace Conference, 1919’ International History Seminar, University of East

Anglia 28 Feb. 2011

2011 ‘The Grand Alliance’ International History Seminar, University of East Anglia

21 Mar. 2011

2012 ‘The Making of the Anglo-American Alliance: the unofficial sub-structure, 1820-1914’.

Transatlantic Studies Association, Cork

12 July 2012

2012 ‘Cultural Diplomacy in the Making of the Anglo-American alliance, 1820-1914’

Toward an Anglo-American Aesthetic, Boston University

2 Nov. 2012

2013 ‘Arms Control Regimes: Historical Perspectives’

International Affairs and Diplomacy Seminar, University of Buckingham, London

13 Mar. 2013

2014 ‘Arms Control Regimes: An Intellectual Genealogy

International Affairs and Diplomacy Seminar, University of Buckingham, London

10 Mar. 2014

2014 ‘Arms Control, Arms Reduction, and Disarmament: The Historical Trajectory’

Center for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African

Studies, London

11 Mar. 2014

2014 ‘The British Monarchy and the Making of the Anglo-American Relationship’

Monarchies at War,

Institute of Contemporary British History, King’s College, London 27 May 2014

2014 ‘The Congregational Connection: Religious Commemorations and the Building of the

Anglo-American Rapprochement’

Transatlantic Studies Association, Ghent

8 July 2014

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER

2001 Partition as a Soltution to Ethhic Conflict, Boston University, supported by the Smith

Richardson Foundation, Oct. 2001

2002 Summit Diplomacy, Boston University, in conjunction with the Diplomatic Studies

Programme, 29-30 March 2002

2013 ‘The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations at Fifty’, with the Fletcher School of Law

and Diplomacy, 17 January 2013.

PANEL CONVENOR, MODERATOR, COMMENTATOR

1992 chair, 'The European Community and the Eastern Mediterranean',

British International Studies Association Conference, Swansea

16 December 1992.

1995 co-organiser and chair, Diplomacy Section,

Pan-European Congress, European International Studies Association Conference,

Paris, September 1995.

1997 organiser and chair, Group on Diplomacy Section,

British International Studies Association, Leeds December 1997

1998 chair and commentator, ‘Diplomacy in a Democratic Age’

New England Historical Association, Conneticut College, New Haven,

17 Oct. 1998.

1999 moderator, ‘Modern Diplomacy’

International Studies Association, Washington, DC

17 Feb. 1998.

1999 moderator, ‘Rethinking the Cold War’,

Historical Society, Boston,

29 May 1999.

1999 chair, ‘U.S. Interests’ U.S. National Strategy and the Future of Land Forces in the Middle

East and the Persian Gulf,

Center for International Relations, Boston University, and the Strategic Institute of

the U.S. Army War College, Boston,

8 June 1999.

2002 chair and commentator, ‘Critical Approaches to Diplomacy’

International Studies Association, New Orleans,

March 2002.

2004 chair and commentator, ‘Coalitions and Alliances at War, 1900–41’

American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.

9 Jan. 2004

2007 Speaker, Symposium on 'The Future of Iraq: U.S. Exit Staregies'

Edward R. Murrow Center, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy 21 Feb. 2007

2009 discussant, ‘Discourse and Great Power Foreign Policy 1880-1925’

Middle East Studies Association, Boston

24 Nov. 2009

2010 Panel Commentator, ‘The Meaning of the 2010 British General Election’

Center for European Studies, Harvard University,

11 May 2010

2014 Introduction, exhibition, ‘Ardent For Some Desperate Glory: Remembering the First

World War’ Howard Gotleib Archival Researcg Center, Boston University,

28 Sep. 2014

BRIEFINGS

2001-03 chair and organizer, Executive Briefings on Current International Affairs, Boston

University with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.