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Diplomatic History Volume 43 Issue 1

Subject Areas: History
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc. - Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0145-2096
SJR: 33

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Contributors

2019 Diplomatic History

doi:10.1093/dh/dhy070

Gregg Brazinsky is a professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University. His books include: Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War (Chapel Hill, NC, 2017) and Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a...
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“The Authority of Academics in a Time of Turbulence”

Hahn, Peter, L

2019 Diplomatic History

doi:10.1093/dh/dhy081

One of the most compelling critiques of the impact of new technologies on modern culture and politics makes this observation: “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of...
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Empires of Play and Publicity in G. P. Putnam’s “Boys’ Books by Boys”

Lieffers,, Caroline

2019 Diplomatic History

doi:10.1093/dh/dhy035

“How Would You Like to Go to Africa?” beckoned a headline in Boys’ Life, the official Boy Scouts of America magazine, in March of 1928.1 George Palmer Putnam, a noted New York publisher and publicist, Honorary Scout, and sometime explorer, was looking for new authors for his “Boys’ Books by Boys”...
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Controlling Knowledge, Controlling People: Travel Restrictions of U.S. Scientists and National Security

Daniels,, Mario

2019 Diplomatic History

doi:10.1093/dh/dhy068

In the early Cold War, the production, dissemination, and control over scientific-technological knowledge became a central concern of the fledgling national security state. Soviet scientific and technological achievements posed a severe threat to American military power and global political...
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Commercial Travel and College Culture: The 1920s Transatlantic Student Market and the Foundations of Mass Tourism

Pietsch,, Tamson

2019 Diplomatic History

doi:10.1093/dh/dhy059

Writing for the New York Times Magazine in 1928, journalist Eunice Fuller Barnard described the dramatic expansion of transatlantic student travel from the United States to Europe in the years since the First World War. Whereas “gilded youth used to go by twos and threes with parents or tutor,”...
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More than Just a Soft Drink: Coca-Cola and China’s Early Reform and Opening

Kraus,, Charles

2019 Diplomatic History

doi:10.1093/dh/dhy060

The beverage and cultural icon known as Coca-Cola returned to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in January 1979. The month prior, the Coca-Cola Company and the Chinese government had brokered a bombshell agreement, which ended a thirty-year ban on the beverage on the Chinese mainland.1...
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Against the “American Century,” Toward a Third World New Left: The Case of Helen Mears*

Kim, Kevin, Y

2019 Diplomatic History

doi:10.1093/dh/dhy025

Few Americans are so unknown yet emblematic of U.S.-Asia relations as the journalist Helen Mears. Lauded by contemporaries as a perceptive observer of Asia, Mears died in 1989 in relative obscurity. That seemed unlikely early in Mears’s career. At the age of twenty-nine, Mears became assistant...
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The Roots of the United States’ Cyber (In)Security

Fuller, Christopher, J

2019 Diplomatic History

doi:10.1093/dh/dhy038

In June 1983, a Harvard study on the impact of computers upon American political campaigns concluded that the technology’s penetration into the world of elections had brought significant advantages for candidates. Alongside their use for managing information bases, assisting in accounting and...
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In the Shadow of Back-Channels: Britain and the Berlin Four Power Talks, 1968–1971

Nannichi,, Ken

2019 Diplomatic History

doi:10.1093/dh/dhy036

In May 1967, Abba Eban, Israel’s foreign minister, visited Washington. Israel was on the brink of the Third Arab–Israeli War, and Eban’s mission was to secure U.S. support for Israel in the coming war. Before coming to Washington, he had met with President Charles de Gaulle in Paris, who, fearing...
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Turning Japanese in the 1980s

Brazinsky,, Gregg

2019 Diplomatic History

doi:10.1093/dh/dhy064

As an Asia scholar, I am slightly embarrassed to admit that some of my earliest impressions of Japan came from watching Mr. Miyagi in the film The Karate Kid and Mr. Fuji in what used to be known as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). They were both appalling stereotypes who spoke in broken,...

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