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it will give us a sense of how many questions are out there. we would like to accommodate as many of you as possible. first up, dr. simon miles, the author of the book. he is assistant professor in the sanford school of public policy at duke university. he has published research into diplomatic history, diplomacy, and statecraft. he is the author of the book we will be talking about today, engaging the evil empire. he holds a phd. he will talk about his book. we will introduce our distinguished commentators afterwards. simon, to you. simon: thank you so much. it s a real pleasure to be here. especially here as so much of the historical scholarship that really got me excited about history, that is probably the reason i am a historian, and i will leave it up to the audience to decide if that s for better or worse. all the work that was being done by those who went before me, it s a real treat to be here with you, especially with mary and elizabeth giving some comments, ....
start raising your hands if you have a question. it will give us a sense of how many questions are out there. we would like to accommodate as many of you as possible. first up, dr. simon miles, the author of the book. he is assistant professor in the stanford school of public policy at duke university sanford school of public policy at duke university. he has published research into diplomatic history, diplomacy, and statecraft. he is the author of the book we will be talking about today, engaging the evil empire. he heard holds a phd. he will talk about his book. we will introduce our distinguished commentators afterwards. simon, to you. simon: thank you so much. it s a real pleasure to be here. especially here as so much of the historical scholarship that really got me excited about history, that is probably the reason i am a historian, and i will leave it up to the audience to said to decide if that s for better or worse. all the work that was being done by t ....
published book, a cold war of global history. i m from george washington university and i m the cochair of the washington history center along with christian arneson of the policy program. the seminar for those of you who don t know is a collaborative effort of the national history center which is part of the american historical association and woodrow wilson enter s nationalcenter for scholars. we meet on monday afternoon at 4 pm though today for our fall lunch , we made an exception and it shows a beautiful friday afternoon to get this started. so normally we meet on monday afternoons, market down, 4 pm. if you have gotten the schedule already, we can go to the washington history seminar s website and national history center and download a copy of all the talks all season. i think our programming this fall is particularly exciting. seminars like this don t happen by themselves. on the logistics front, peter stecker of the wilson center and amanda perry work behind-the ....
castigliola. the first appeared in the 1997 issue of the journal of american history. and the second appeared just last year in 2016 in the same journal. both of these penetrating articles [ laughter ] sorry, deal with george kennen, soviet russia and the cold war. now we all know that kennen s long-telegraphed, which was sent in february 1946 from moscow to washington and his so-called e articex article embodied the very core of u.s. containment policy to the cold war. these are the documents that frank focuses on and extrapolates from. but his articles are important, both substantively and method logically. first of all, he reexamines kennen s motives and thinking. and in so doing he makes a major methodological contribution. he injects emotion as a major factor to think about when we imagine the formation of policy in the early cold war. rather than the rational realist, frank portrays kennen in all of his humanity, rational? yes. but also insecure. anxious, frustrat ....
last year in 2016 in the same journal. both of these penetrating articles [ laughter ] sorry, deal with george kennen, soviet russia and the cold war. now we all know that kennen s long-telegraphed, which was sent in february 1946 from moscow to washington and his so-called e articex article embodied the very core of u.s. containment policy to the cold war. these are the documents that frank focuses on and extrapolates from. but his articles are important, both substantively and method logically. first of all, he reexamines kennen s motives and thinking. and in so doing he makes a major methodological contribution. he injects emotion as a major factor to think about when we imagine the formation of policy in the early cold war. rather than the rational realist, frank portrays kennen in all of his humanity, rational? yes. but also insecure. anxious, frustrated. fearful and fearful of seeming fearful. he urges us, frank urges us to ponder the interception of emotion and r ....