William R. Keylor Professor of History and

William R. Keylor
Professor of History and International Relations
Director, International History Institute
Mailing Address:
Department of International Relations
Boston University
152 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Telephone: (617) 358-0197
Fax: (617) 358-0190
E-Mail: [email protected]
PERSONAL
Born in Sacramento, California on August 15, 1944
Married to Rheta Grenoble Keylor since December 28, 1968
Two children (Daniel and Justine)
EDUCATION
B.A., honors in history, Stanford University (1966): Honors Thesis under
direction of Professor Gordon Wright
M.A., modern European history, Columbia University (1967)
Certificate, European Institute, Columbia University (1971)
Ph.D., modern European history, Columbia University (1971)
Jacques Barzun first reader, Robert Paxton second reader
Certificate in Financial Planning, Boston University (1986)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Instructor in History, Rutgers University, Newark (1968-69)
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Fulbright Teaching Fellow, Université de Paris, Vincennes (1969-70)
Lecturer in History, Rutgers University, Newark (1970-72)
Assistant Professor of History, Boston University (1972-75)
Tenured Associate Professor of History, Boston University (1975-80)
Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1979-80)
Professor of History, Boston University (1980--)
Professeur Invité, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris (spring 2003)
Acting Chair, Department of History, Boston University (198889)
Chair, Department of History, Boston University (1989-91, 1991-94, 199497, 1997-2000)
Professor of International Relations, Boston University (1992--)
Director, International History Institute, Boston University (1999--)
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (Recipient or Principal Investigator)
J.B. Weter History Honors Fellowship, Stanford University (1965-66)
Advanced Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, Paris, France (1969-70)
Columbia University Presidential Fellowship (awarded but declined) (1969-70)
French Government Traveling Fellowship (awarded but declined) (1969-70)
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship (1970-71)
American Council of Learned Societies Traveling Fellowship (1972)
Boston University Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship (1972)
Inter-University Centre for European Studies Fellowship (1974)
Boston University Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship (1976)
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John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (awarded in 1976, accepted in 1978)
American Philosophical Society Research Fellowship (1985)
Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (1986)
Boston University Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship (1986)
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Sources Fellowship (1987)
Boston University Humanities Foundation Course Development Grant (1988)
McCormick Fellowship, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association (1994)
Florence Gould Foundation Program Grant (awarded 1995 for 1996)
Earhart Foundation Fellowship (2000-2001)
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship (2000-2001)
Boston University Instructional Technology Grant (2000-2001)
Florence Gould Foundation Program Grant (2003)
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION AND HONORS FOR SCHOLARSHIP AND
WRITING
Doctoral Oral Examination passed with highest grade of "double excellent,"
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1969)
Doctoral Dissertation Defense with highest grade of "Distinction," Columbia
University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1971)
Andrew Mellon publication grant, Harvard University Press (1975)
Selected for Scholar-Diplomat Program to serve as Observer at the French
Desk, United States Department of State
(1975)
Elected Member of Board of Editors, French Historical Studies (1980-83)
Elected Member of Committee on Committees, American Historical Association
(1981-84)
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One of two American historians invited to deliver a paper at the international
colloquium in Rheims, France commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the
end of the Second World War in Europe (1985)
Elected to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (1987)
Winner of United Methodist Church Scholar-Teacher Award (1988)
Selected as only American historian to deliver an address before the international
colloquium in Caen, France, entitled "Faut-il faire la guerre pour la
démocratie?" to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the D-Day landing
(1994)
Elected President, Society for French Historical Studies (1995-96)
Designated Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite [Knight of the National Order
of Merit], French Republic (1997)
Selected as Professeur invité, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris (Summer 2003)
AWARDS AND HONORS FOR TEACHING
Arthur G.B. Metcalf (Boston University Board of Trustees) Award for Excellence
in Teaching, Boston University (1984)
United Methodist Church Scholar-Teacher Award, Boston University (1988)
Boston University Nominee (later selected) to participate in the Institute for
European Studies' Faculty Seminar on the French Revolution [on the
occasion of the bicentennial], Paris and Nantes, (1989)
Chosen to deliver lectures in the Alexander Crummel Summer Seminars [for
minority students intending to pursue careers as teachers and scholars in the
humanities] (1991)
PUBLICATIONS IN BOOK FORM
Academy and Community: The Foundation of the French Historical Profession
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975)
From Parnassus: Essays in Honor of Jacques Barzun (coed. Dora B. Weiner)
(New York: Harper & Row, 1976)
Jacques Bainville and the Renaissance of Royalist History in TwentiethCentury France (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979)
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The Legacy of the Great War: Peacemaking 1919 (edited with an introduction)
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
Encyclopedia of the Modern World (general editor) (New York: Facts on File,
2006)
A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945 (New York and Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2003). Revised 2nd edition, 2008. Italian Translation.
The Twentieth-Century World: An International History (New York & Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1984); Revised 2nd edition, 1992; Revised 3rd edition,
1996; Revised 4th edition, 2001; Revised 5th edition, 2005; Revised 6th edition,
2011; Canadian edition (with Jerry Bannister, 2005, 2nd ed., 2011), Spanish,
Portuguese, and Chinese translations.
PUBLICATIONS IN ARTICLE, ESSAY, OR CHAPTER FORM
"The Origins and Development of the Academic Historical Profession in
France," Newsletter of the New England Historical Association (September
1974), 12-19.
"Clio et le roi: Jacques Bainville et la doctrine historique de l'Action Française,"
Etudes Maurrassiennes , vol. 3 (Spring, 1975), 97-106.
"Clio on Trial: Charles Péguy as Historical Critic," in Keylor and Weiner, ed.,
From Parnassus: Essays in Honor of Jacques Barzun (New York: Harper & Row,
1976), 195-208. Reprinted in Dennis Poupard, ed., Twentieth-Century Literary
Criticism (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1980)
"Prohibition Diplomacy: An Incident of Franco-American Misunderstanding,"
French Civilization Vol. V, No. 3 (Spring, 1981), 299-311.
"Anticlericalism and Educational Reform in the French Third Republic," History
of Education Quarterly (Autumn 1981), 95-102.
"Die Herausforderung der Wissenschaft von der Gesellschaft," in Wolf
Lepenies, ed., Geschichte der Soziologie (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkampt, 1981)
"'Lafayette, We Have Quit!': Wilsonian Policy and French Security After
Versailles," in Nancy L. Roelker and Charles K. Warner, ed., Two Hundred Years
of Franco-American Relations (Worcester, MA: Heffernan Press [for the Society
for French Historical Studies], 1983), 44-75
"Jacques Bainville," in Patrick H. Hutton, ed., Historical Dictionary of the Third
French Republic, 1870-1940 (Westport, CN, Greenwood Press, 1986).
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"Entente Cordiale," in ibid.
"Franco-British Relations," in ibid.
"Charles-Victor Langlois," in ibid.
"Ernest Lavisse," in ibid.
"Louis Madelin." in ibid.
"Gabriel Monod," in ibid.
"Franco-Russian Relations in the Third Republic," in ibid.
"Charles Seignobos," in ibid.
"Triple Entente," in ibid.
"Franco-American Relations in the Third Republic," in ibid.
"France's Role In World War I," in ibid.
"World History and International History: Complementary or Incompatible
Approaches to Global Historical Reality?" World History, Vol .III, No. 1 (Summer
1985), 1-4.
"Des Buts de guerre aux buts de paix: La Politique européenne des Etats-Unis
de Yalta à Potsdam," in Maurice Vaisse, ed., La Victoire en Europe (Paris: La
Manufacture, 1986), 169-180.
"Great Britain, France, and the Munich Settlement: Foreign Policy and National
Deterrent," The Munich Diktat: Fifty Years After (Institute for the Study of Conflict,
Ideology, and Policy Publication Series, No. 2 (Autumn, 1988), 1-8
"The Rise and Demise of the Franco-American Guarantee Treaty, 1919-1921,"
Proceedings of the Western Society for French History , Vol 14 (Autumn1988),
367-377.
"France Faces Glasnost and Détente," in Bernard Rubin and Ladislav
Bittmann, eds., Shock Waves: Consequences of Glasnost and Perestroika,
(Boston: Program for the Study of Disinformation Papers, vol. 2, No. 6 [autumn
1989], 19-35
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"Defense Policy in the Fourth and Fifth Republics," in Wayne Northcutt, ed.,
Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991
(Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1992)
"Charles de Gaulle," in ibid.
"Franco-German Relations under the Fourth and Fifth Republics," in
ibid.
"Franco-American Relations under the Fourth and Fifth Republics," in
ibid.
"The Western European Union," in ibid.
"'How They Advertised France:' The French Propaganda Campaign in the
United States during the Breakup of the Franco-American Entente, 1918-1923,"
Diplomatic History, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer 1993), 351-393.
"France's Futile Quest for American Military Protection, 1919-1922," in Marta
Petricioli ed., Missed Opportunity?: 1922 and the Reconstruction of Europe
(Basle: Berg, 1995), 61-80.
"The Principle of National Self-Determination as a Factor in the Creation of
Postwar Frontiers in Europe, 1919 and 1945," in Carole Fink, ed., National
Frontiers and the Two World Wars (Basle: Berg, (1996), 37-54.
"A Reevaluation of the Versailles Peace," Relevance: The Quarterly Journal of
the Great War Society, Vol. V, No. 2 (Summer 1996), 1-8.
"France and the First World War," in William Cohen, ed., The
Transformation of Modern France (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1997), 182-206.
"France and the Illusion of American Support, 1919-1940," in Joel Blatt, ed.,
The French Defeat of 1940: Reassessments (Providence: Berghahn Books,
1997), 204-244.
"The Allied Invasion of Normandy," in Bertram M. Gordon, ed., Historical
Dictionary of World War II France: Occupation, Vichy, Liberation (Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998)
"Atlantic Wall," in ibid.
"The Franco-German Armistice," in ibid.
"Henri-Philippe Pétain," in ibid.
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"Versailles and International Diplomacy," in Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald
Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser, eds., The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment
after 75 Years (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 469-505
"La propagande comme instrument de la puissance américaine dans les
premières années de la guerre froide," Relations Internationales No. 4 (summer
1998), 179-197.
"L'Image de la France en Amérique à la Fin de la Grande Guerre," in François
Cochet, ed., Les Américains et la France (1917-1947): Engagements et
Représentations (Paris, Maisonneuve et LaRose, 1999), 158-167.
"Clio on the Campus: The Historical Society at Boston University," Bostonia,
Summer 1999.
"Charles de Gaulle," 3,200-word entry in the on-line encyclopedia of Encarta
Publishing Company (Microsoft, Inc., 2000)
"World War I," a 22,500-word entry in the on-line encyclopedia of Encarta
Publishing Company (Microsoft, Inc., 2001)
"Post-mortems for the American Century," Diplomatic History, Vol. 25, No. 2
(Spring 2001), 317-327. Review Essay.
"La politique extérieure traditionelle des Républicains," Géopolitique, Revue de
l'Institut International de Géopolitique, No. 7 (March 2001), 86-91.
"The Messiah and the Tiger: Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, and the
Cultural Stereotypes of America and France at the Paris Peace Conference of
1919," William L. Chew, III, ed., National Stereotypes in Perspective: Americans
in France, Frenchmen in America (Amsterdam: Rodolpi, 2001), pp. 283-298.
“L’Hyperpuissance et L’Onu,” Géopolitique (June, 2003), 72-78.
‘’Collective Security and Regional Security in U.S. Foreign Policy at the End of
the Great War,” Annales du Monde Anglophone (2e semester, 2001, Numero 14
[appeared 2003]. 31-38
"Le rôle des organisations internationales de sécurité pendant et après la guerre
froide: Sécurité collective ou sécurité régionale?," Danielle Domergue-Cloarec
and Antoine Coppolani, eds., Des Conflits en mutation ? De la guerre froide aux
nouveaux conflits : essai de typologie de 1947 à nos jours (Paris, Editions
Complex, 2003), 343-349.
« The Trouble with the French, » Bostonia (Autumn 2003, No. 3), 19-23.
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‘’Waging the War of Words:”The Promotion of American Interests and Ideals
Abroad During the Cold War, ‘’ Cathal Nolan, ed., Power and Responsibility in
World Affairs : Reformation versus Transformation (Westport, CN, Praeger,
2004), 79-101.
‘’Washington, Paris, et le Nouvel Ordre Mondial : Les Relations francoaméricaines, 1989-2000,’’ Relations Internationales, No. 120 (Winter 2004), 513527.
“A New Look at the Old Revisionism,” Review essay posted on the H-DIPLO online H-NET Discussion Group, June 2005.
“The Legacy of the Second World War: The Decline of the Empires,
the Rise of the Superpowers, and the Recovery of Europe,” article commissioned
by British Broadcasting Corporation for its website, summer 2005.
« Le Débarquement et La Bataille de Normandie dans la Mémoire Collective
Américaine de 1944 à 2004, », Les Populations civiles face au débarquement et
à la bataille de Normandie Actes du Colloque « La perception du Débarquement
et de la bataille de Normandie par les Américains de 1944 à nos jours, (Caen,
CRHQ,CNRS-Université de Caen, 2005), 281-287.
“The Wind of Change in 1956,” in Carole Fink, Frank Hadler, and Tomasz
Schramm, eds., 1956: European and Global Perspectives (Leipzig, Leipziger
Universitaetsverlag, 2006), 235-244
« The Treaty of Versailles, » in John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds.,
Encyclopedia of Europe : 1914-2004 (New York, Scribners, 2006).
“Simple and Direct,” Columbia Magazine, Fall 2007, 42-45.
“French Military Intelligence Responds to the German Remilitarization of the
Rhineland, 1936,” Review Essay of Articles by Martin Alexander and Peter
Jackson and translation of French Military Intelligence Document, D-Diplo and HFrance article reviews, published July 10, 2008.
“The Legacy of Wilsonianism: A Retrospective Evaluation,” in Pierre Mélandri
and Serge Ricard, eds.,Les Etats-Unis entre Uni- et Multilatéralisme de Woodrow
Wilson à George W. Bush, (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2008), 311-326.
“La Tentation de l’Apaisement: La Réponse de l’Administration Roosevelt aux
Violations du Traité de Versailles par l’Allemagne, 1935-1938, ») in Hélène
Harter et al., eds., Terres Promises : Mélanges offerts à André Kaspi (Paris,
Publications de la Sorbonne, 2008), 253-266.
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«Il libro del secolo (e oltre) : le prolungata influenza di Le conseguenze
economiche della pace di John Maynard Keynes, », Contemporanea : Rivista di
storia dell’800 e del ‘900 (Anno XII, numero 1, gennaio 2009),176-183.
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Europe: Responding to German Revisionism,
1935-1938, in Gaynor Johnson (ed.), The International Context of the Spanish
Civil War (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), 117-130.
“A Peaceful Europe? Negotiating Peace in the Twentieth Century,” On-Line
Review Essay of three articles in Contemporary European History, Volume 17 Issue 03, Special Issue, (August 2008), in H-Diplo (June 22, 2009).
“Réalisme” bainvillien et “Idéalisme wilsonien en débat à la lumière de la politique
étrangère américaine,” in Olivier Dard and Michel Grunewald, eds., Jacques
Bainville : Profils et Réceptions (Berne : Peter Lang Publishers, 2010), 152-166.
"A History of Arms Control," Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO). (New York and
Oxford: University Press, 2011), 11-page essay with annotated bibliography
"A History of the United Nations." Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO). (New
York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) 12-page essay with annotated
bibliography.
“La Mémoire, l’oubli et l’utilisation politique du Débarquement aux États-Unis,” in
Mémoire, lieux de mémoire: Rencontres Internationales. Les Actes du Colloque
International (les 15, 16, & 17 juin, 2001 (Caen: Le Mémorial de Caen, Basse
Normandie, juillet 2012), pp. 55-59.
“American Exceptionalism from T.R. to the New Left,” in Claire Delahaye and
Serge Ricard, eds., LHeritage de Théodore Roosevelt: Imperialisme et
progressivisme, 1912-2012 (Paris: Harmattan, 2012), 143-154.
“Wilson’s Project for a New World Order of Permanent Peace and Security,” in
Ross Kennedy, ed., A Companion to Woodrow Wilson (Malden, MA: Wiley
Blackwell, 2013, 470-491.
“The United Nations:Its Record as the Guardian of Global Cooperative Security,
in Vojtech Mastny and Zhu Liqun, eds. The Security Challenge: From Alliance
Systems to Cooperative Security (Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield, accepted
for publication, forthcoming, 2014).
“The Second Cold War in Europe: The Paradoxes of a Dangerous Time,” in
Lorenz Lüthi, ed., The Regional Cold Wars in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle
East: Crucial Periods and Turning Points (submitted for publication to Cold War
International History Project Series at the Woodrow Wilson Center
Press/Stanford University Press, forthcoming, 2014).
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SCHOLARLY PAPERS AND LECTURES (Selected)
"L'Amérique des années soixante: le problème de la jeunesse," paper delivered
at conference of the Association Française pour la Communauté Atlantique,
Paris (1969)
"Manifestations politiques dans les universités américaines: le bilan," address
delivered at the Centre Culturel Américain, Paris (1970)
"Clio in Academe: The French Experience," lecture delivered at Department of
History, University of Illinois at Urbana (1972)
"Problems of Historical Research in French Archives," lecture delivered at
Brandeis-Boston University European History Colloquium (1973)
"The Institutionalization of Academic Innovations in the French University,"
paper presented at the Boston University-Brandeis University Program in Social
Thought (1974)
"The Origins of the French Historical Profession," lecture delivered at
Department of History, Brown University (1974)
"The French Resistance during the Second World War," lecture delivered to the
Undergraduate History Association, Boston University (1974)
"Town versus Country in France," lecture delivered at Brandeis UniversityBoston University European History Colloquium (1974)
"The Historiographical Imagination in France," paper presented at the New
England Historical Association Convention (1974)
"A New Academic Discipline in the Sorbonne," paper presented at annual
convention of the American Historical Association (1974)
"The Institutionalization of Historical Study at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes," paper presented at Inter-University Centre for European Studies,
Montreal (1975)
"Recent Trends in French Historiographical Thought," paper presented at New
York State Historical Association Conference (1977)
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"French Historical Discourse, 1965-1980," paper presented at the Society for
French Historical Studies Conference (1980)
"Prohibition Diplomacy: An Incident of Franco-American Misunderstanding,"
paper presented at the Colloquium on French Society and Civilization, State
University of New York at Buffalo (1980)
"French Foreign Policy under Mitterrand: A Preliminary Observation," address
delivered at the Inter-University Consortium for Social Research on France,
Institute for French Studies, New York University (1982)
"Foreign and Defense Policies of Mitterrand's France: A Commentary," address
delivered to Inter-University Consortium for Social Research on France, Institute
for French Studies, New York University (1984)
"Franco-American Relations in the Post-Gaullist Era," address delivered at La
Maison Française, Boston University
(1984)
"France and America: The Love-Hate Relationship of our Century," address
delivered to the undergraduate students’ association of Springfield College
(1985)
"Des Buts de Guerre aux Buts de Paix: La Politique des Etats-Unis lors de la
Capitulation Allemande, Mai 1945," paper delivered at the international
colloquium at Rheims, France, marking the 40th anniversary of the end of World
War II in Europe (1985)
"The Atlantic Partnership: A Cost-Benefit Analysis," address delivered to the
Association of Alumni Representatives, Boston University (1986)
"The French Right and Fascism," paper presented at the Boston University
Program in Twentieth-Century Studies (1987)
"Social and Economic Policies of the Mitterrand-Chirac Government," lecture
delivered at Springfield College (1987)
"The Rise and Demise of the Franco-American Guarantee Treaty," paper
presented at the Western Society for French History Convention (1988)
"'How They Sold France': The French Propaganda Campaign in the United
States During the Breakup of the Franco-American Entente, 1918-1921," paper
presented at the American Historical Association, 1989)
"De Gaulle's Europe: From the Atlantic to. . .?," paper presented at the De
Gaulle Centennial Symposium, Boston University (1990)
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"The New World Order of Bush and Gorbachev," address at the Strategic and
Security Studies Luncheon, Boston University (1991)
"The EC on the Eve of Maastricht," address delivered to the International
Relations Student Association, Boston University (1991)
"The United States and French Security Concerns on the Eve of the Ruhr
Occupation," paper presented at "1992 e la Riconstruzione dell'Europa,"
International Conference of the Association Internationale d'Histoire
Contemporaine de l'Europe, Florence (1992)
"Versailles after Seventy-Five Years: A Reassessment," paper presented at the
Conference of the New England Historical Association (1994)
"Versailles and International Diplomacy," paper presented at the conference
marking the 75th anniversary of the Versailles Treaty, sponsored by the German
Historical Institute and the University of California at Berkeley (1994)
"Self-Determination at the Peace Conference of 1919," paper presented at the
Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Bentley
College (1994)
"Les Etats-Unis et la Politique des Droits de l'Homme dans la Deuxième
Guerre Mondiale," address presented to International Colloquium in Caen,
France, entitled "Faut-il Faire la Guerre pour la Démocratie?," sponsored by the
journal Le Monde des Débats and the Regional Council of Lower Normandy
(1994)
"D-Day Plus Fifty: Looking Back at the Last 'Good War,'" lecture delivered in
Deauville, France, to Smithsonian National Associates Program on the occasion
of the fiftieth anniversary of the D-Day landing (1994)
"The Principle of National Self-Determination as a Factor in the Creation of
Postwar Frontiers in Europe, 1919 and 1945," paper delivered at the 18th
International Congress of Historical Sciences, Montreal (1995)
"A Reevaluation of the Versailles Peace." Paper presented at the annual
conference of the Great War Society, Bethesda, Maryland (1995)
"France: Chirac in Difficulty." Lecture at "Conference on the European
Community," sponsored by the International Students' Association, Boston
(1996)
"The Management of Global Security in the Post-Cold War Order:
Unilateralism, Multilateralism, or Regionalism?" Paper delivered at the Third
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National Conference on Strategic Studies (Encontro National de Estudos
Estratégicos), Rio de Janeiro (1996)
"Keynes's Ghost." Lecture presented to the Cambridge Institute for Learning in
Retirement, Harvard University Faculty Club, Cambridge, Mass. (1996)
"L'image de la France victorieuse à la fin de la Grande Guerre," paper
presented at the international colloquium entitled "Les Américains et la France
(1917-1945): Engagements et représentations," Université de Reims
Champagne-Ardenne. Sponsored by l'Association pour la Recherche sur la Paix
et la Guerre and le Centre de Recherche d'Histoire Nord-Américaine (1997)
"1898: Intimations of Conflicts to Come in the New Century." Keynote address
to teachers' workshop, World Affairs Council of Boston, 1998
"'Waging the War of Words': The Promotion of American Interests and Ideals
during the Cold War." Paper delivered by Carnegie Council Faculty Seminar on
"Great Power Responsibility and World Affairs," Boston, 1998
"The Messiah and the Tiger: Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, and the
Cultural Stereotypes of America and France at the Peace Conference of 1919."
Keynote address at conference entitled "National Stereotypes in Historical
Perspective: Americans in France, Frenchmen in America," Brussels, Belgium
(1999).
"Collective Security and Regional Security in U.S. Foreign Policy at the end of
the Great War, » Paper delivered at the Colloquium "Les Etats-Unis Face à des
Mondes Nouveaux, at the Observatoire de la Politique Etrangère Américaine,
Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) (2001)
"Universalism or Regionalism in U.S. Foreign Policy After World War I," paper
delivered at the University of West England, Bristol, U.K. (2001).
"Le rôle des organisations internationales de sécurité pendant et après la guerre
froide: Sécurité collective ou sécurité régionale?." Paper presented at the
International Colloquium "Des Conflits en Mutation? De la Guerre Froide aux
nouveaux conflits: Essai de typologie (2001).
‘’The Special Relationship Viewed from Washington,’’ paper presented at the
conference “La Relation Speciale” at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris,
November 18, 2002.
“L’Alliance Incertaine: Les Relations Franco-Américaines après la fin de la
Guerre Froide,” presentation at the seminar on transatlantic relations in the
twentieth century, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Paris, France (2003).
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“La Politique Etrangère Culturelle des Etats-Unis depuis la Deuxième Guerre
Mondiale,” presentation at the Centre Européene, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de
Paris, Paris, France (2003)
“L’Amérique comme Hyperpuissance,” presentation to course of Professor Pierre
Melandri, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Paris, France (2003)
“Le Débarquement et la Bataille de Normandie dans la Mémoire Collective
Américaine de 1944 à 2004,” paper presented at the International Conference of
History on “Le Débarquement et les Civils, the Mémorial Museum, Caen, France
(2004)
“L’Amérique et la France pendant les années difficiles,” presentation at round
table at the Institute des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva, Switzerland,
June 3, 2004.
‘’Les Relations franco-américaines depuis la fin de la guerre froide,’’
Paper presented at a colloquium entitled ‘’Les Relations Transatlantiques,
convergences et divergences de 1945 à 2004’’ to honor the 30th anniversary of
the journal Relations Internationales, Geneva, Switzerland, June 5, 2004.
“Terrorism with a Global Reach,” presentation before the World Affairs Forum,
Boston University College of General Studies, October 9, 2004)
“Reflections on The Current International Scene,” presentation before the Boston
University Model United Nations Organization, December 1, 2004
‘The Promotion of Democracy as a Goal of American Foreign Policy,” speech
delivered before the Boston University Alumni Association of Sydney, Sydney,
Australia, July 6, 2005
“1956: The Great Turning Point,” Keynote address at the annual meeting of the
Association Internationale d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Europe held at the 20th
International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney, Australia, July 8, 2005
“Democracy, Human Rights, and American Foreign Policy,” speech delivered to
the Boston University College of General Studies Model United Nations
Association, December 1, 2005
“France, the FLN, and the Algerian War,” speech delivered to the Harvard
University Model United Nations Conference, December 9, 2005
“Historical Antecedents to the International Criminal Court,” speech delivered at
the Harvard University Model United Nations Conference, Boston, Park Plaza
Hotel, February 16, 2006
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“From Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Realism and
Idealism in American Foreign Policy,” speech delivered at the College of General
Studies, Boston University, March 20, 2006
“Churchill’s Sinews of Peace,” Paper delivered at the New England Churcillians
Organization, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, May 17, 2006.
“Between Appeasement and Resistance: The Roosevelt Administration’s Initial
Responses to Nazi Foreign Policy Revisionism,” Paper delivered at the
international conference “The Democratic Powers and the Challenge of the Right
in Europe, 1933-1939,” European Studies Research Institute, University of
Salford, U.K., June 30, 2006.
“L’état de la discipline de l’histoire des relations internationales,” paper delivered
at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), October 13, 2006.
« The Great War as the Great Turning Point of the Twentieth Century, » paper
delivered at the annual meeting of the Western Front Association, Hartford, CN,
November 11, 2006
“Women in Wartime,” speech given at the Howard Gottleib Research Center,
Boston University, December 5, 2006.
Woodrow Wilson, the 'Wilsonian Peace,' and the Origins of the Modern World."
Presented at the European Studies Seminar, Department of History, Boston
University, February 6, 2007
“The Foreign Policy Debate during the French Elections,” lecture at Harvard
University Model United Nations Conference, Boston, February 16, 2007
“Democracy as a Goal of American Foreign Policy,” lecture at the Howard
Gottlieb Research Center, Boston University, March 1, 2007
“Have the Ideas of Woodrow Wilson Stood the Test of Time,” paper delivered at
the international conference “From the Great War to the Peace Settlement, 19181919: A Retrospective Evaluation,” Boston, March 23, 2007
Presentation at panel "French Foreign Policy," sponsored by the International
Students' Consortium and the Consulate of France in Boston. Boston, March 30,
2007
Presentation on panel "Returning Historians to H-Diplo,” annual conference of
the Society for the Historians of American Foreign Relations, Bethesday,
Maryland, June 22, 2007
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Presentation at the Student Discovery Seminar "America at War," the Howard
Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, November 13, 2007.
“When the Gun’s Fell Silent on the Western Front,” lecture delivered to the
Wardroom Club [retired naval officers], Boston, December 19, 2007
“The Legacy of Wilsonianism: A Retrospective Evaluation,” paper delivered at the
Centre de Recherche sur l’Amérique du Nord, Colloque de l’Observatoire de la
Politique Étrangère Américaine, Paris, January 19, 2008.
« From Lafayette’s Rights of Man to Woodrow Wilson’s Right of SelfDetermination,” paper delivered at a symposium at Lafayette College to
commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Marquis de Lafayette, April
21, 2008.
“The Great War, the Hall of Mirrors, and the Sinews of Peace,” paper delivered at
the plenary session of the annual meeting of the British International History
Group, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom,
September 5, 2008.
“Legacy of Ashes: A History of the Central Intelligence Agency,” introductory
address delivered at the conference of the same name organized by the
International History Institute, Boston University, September 26, 2008.
“Foreign Policy Challenges and the American Presidential Election,” presentation
to the members of the Evergreen Program, Boston University, October 20, 2008.
Presentation on a Panel entitled "Shaping a 21st Century Foreign Policy,” part of
the “Policy Advice for the Next President” Seminar at Northeastern University,
November 12, 2008.
“The Successes and Failures of Cooperative Security: The United Nations,”
paper presented at the international conference, “Cooperative Security in East
and Southeast Asia: Learning from History to Meet Future Challenges,” Coorganized by the Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security and the China
Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, China, April 18, 2009.
"China, the United States, and the Breakdown of Wartime Cooperation, 19441949." Invited Lecture at the Department of International Affairs, Peking
University (Beida), Beijing, China, April 14, 2009.
"The Ambivalent Relationship: France and the United States During the Cold
War," Invited lecture at the Chinese People's University (Renda), Beijing, China,
April 15, 2009.
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“’Réalisme’ Bainvillien et ‘idéalisme wilsonien en débats à la lumière de la
politique étrangère américaine,” paper presented at the conference «Jacques
Bainville : Profils et Réceptions, » Université Paul Verlaine-Metz, Metz, France,
May 14, 2009.
“The Second Cold War in Europe, 1978-1983: The Paradoxes of a Dangerous
Time”. Paper presented at the International Conference "Nexus Years in the Cold
War," McGill University, Montreal, Canada, October 16, 2009.
Presentation at panel titled "The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 Years Later."
Sponsored by the Center for International Relations, November 16, 2009.
Presentation at panel titled “Defense and Diplomacy,” sponsored by the
Roosevelt Institute of Boston University, December 9, 2009.
War of Necessity, War of Choice?: A Historical Introduction to the Wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq." Invited lecture to staff psychologists dealing with veterans
with post-traumatic stress disorder at the Veterans' Administration Hospital,
Bedford, MA. February 26, 2010
"The League of Nations, the United Nations, and International Governance."
Invited paper presented at the faculty plenary session of the Graduate Student
Conference on International History, Harvard University. March 13, 2010.
"Mars and Venus: American and European Attitudes Toward War Since World
War II." Invited lecture before the members of the Lifelong Learning (Evergreen)
Program at Boston University, October 12, 2010
“The United Nations and the Hopes and Achievements of Collective Security.”
Speech delivered to the Boston University Students for Israel, February 22, 2011.
“Howard Zinn as Analyst of Foreign Policy.” Paper presented at a symposium at
Boston University titled “Rethinking Howard Zinn as Historian.” Sponsored by the
International History Institute, February 23, 2011.
“The War in Afghanistan Ten Years On,” Invited lecture to staff psychologists
dealing with veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder at the Veterans’
Administration Hospital, Bedford, MA. April 3, 2011.
“The United States and Democracy Promotion: The Historical Record,” invited
lecture at the Algonquin Club, Boston. May 11, 2011.
“"France and America: The Love-Hate Relationship of Four Centuries,” invited
lecture at the Gastronomy Program of Boston University. May 18, 2011
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“The Technology Fix for Escalating Tuition Costs.” Speech at Department of
History Commencement Ceremony, Boston University. May 21, 2011
“Le Débarquement dans la mémoire des Américains, « Invited paper at the
Mémoriale Museum in Caen, France, at an international conference on the longterm memory of the D-Day Landing. June 15, 2011.
“American Exceptionalism from Theodore Roosevelt to the New Left,” invited
paper at an international conference at La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. June 18,
2011.
“Churchill Amid Appeasement and War,” invited presentation at a workshop
organized by the Churchill Center of Cambridge University at Boston University
for high school teachers. July 27, 2011.
“The Palestinian Bid for U.N. Membership,” invited presentation at Hillel House,
Boston University. September 21, 2011.
Address titled “The Eagle and the Red Star: A History of United-States Policy
toward China, 1949-1969, to Chinese University Student Association, Beijing,
China, July 12, 2012.
COURSES TAUGHT
Europe and World Politics since 1870
History of International Relations, 1900-1945
History of International Relations since 1945
France, Europe, and the World
World History since 1750
History of France since 1815
History of Modern European Thought and Culture
History of Europe Since 1900
European-American Relations since 1914
French-American Relations in the Modern World
The Great War and the Fragile Peace
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The Cold War
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AND MAJOR COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY (prior to promotion to full professor in 1980)
Member, President's Search Committee for Dean of School of Law
Member, Dean's Search Committee for Chair of Department of
Modern Foreign Languages and Literature
Faculty Adviser, Office of Academic Advising, College of Liberal Arts
Member, Deans Advisory Committee on Lower Division Education
Pre-Law Adviser, Department of History
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of History
Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of History
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AND MAJOR COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY (since promotion to full professor in 1980)
Member, President's Search Committee for Dean of School of Management
(1980)
Member, Executive Committee, Department of History (1980-82, 1985-87, exofficio 1988-2000)
Member, University Council Committee on Curriculum and Degrees (19811991)
Member, Dean's Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum
Development (1981)
Member, Executive Committee, International Relations Program (1982-1990)
Member, Dean's Advisory Committee on the Future of the International
Relations Program (1981-82)
Coordinator ad interim, History Program, Metropolitan College, Boston
University (1981-82)
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Member, Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, College of Liberal
Arts (1980-81, 1984-85)
Member, Executive Committee, College of Liberal Arts (1982-83)
Member, University Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, (198384)
Chairman, Academic Policy Committee, College of Liberal Arts (1986-87)
Chairman, Core Curriculum Planning Committee, College of Liberal Arts (198687)
Member, Dean's Advisory Committee on the Core Curriculum (1987-88)
Chairman, Metcalf (Board of Trustees) Teaching Award Selection Committee
(1987-88, 1996-97), Member (1987-88, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97, 2004-05)
Member, Search Committee for Associate Dean, Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences (1988)
Member, Provost's Advisory Committee on Re-accreditation (1988-89)
Member, Advisory Committee to Study Abroad Program (1988-90)
Acting Chair, Department of History (1987-88)
Chair, Search Committee for Historian of European Intellectual History,
Department of History (1989-90)
Chair, Search Committee for Historian of Russia, Department of History (198990)
Chair, Department of History (1989-91, 1991-94, 1994-97, 1997-2000
Member, Advisory Board, Center for Teaching Excellence, College of Arts and
Sciences (1996-98)
Member, Sub-Committee on Evaluation of Teaching, Center for Teaching
Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences (1996-97)
Member, Search Committee for Chair of International Relations Department
(1997-98)
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Member, Search Committee for Three Senior Appointments for Department of
International Relations (1997-98)
Member, Provost's Search Committee for Dean of College of General Studies
(1999-2000)
Chair, Search Committee for Chinese Historian, Department of History (20032004)
Member of Selection Committee, Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Program (2004-2006)
Member, Trustee Scholars Admission Committee (2004-2005, 2005-2006,
2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-2010)
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of History (2005-06, 200809)
Member, Search Committee for Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
(2006-07)
Acting Chair, Department of International Relations (2009)
Member, Appeals Committee for the Trustee Scholars Program (2010--)
Member, Planning Committee for the Creation of a European Studies Program
(2009-2011)
Member, Executive Committee, Center for the Study of Europe, 2011--.
Member, Search Committee for a Latin American Specialist, Department of
International Relations (2011-12)
Chair, Search Committee for Professor of the Practice (Diplomacy or
International Communications), 2012-13
Dean’s co-delegate (with Professor Vivien Schmidt) to poll members of the
International Relations Department on the future of the department chairmanship
and report to the dean (2012-2013).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES (since 1980)
Elected Member, Board of Editors, French Historical Studies (1980-83)
Elected Member, Committee on Committees, American Historical Association
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(1981-84)
Member, Inter-University Consortium for Social Research on France (1981-92)
President, Society for French Historical Studies (1995-96)
Elected Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Member, American Historical Association
Member, Society for the Historians of American Foreign Relations
Member, Society for French Historical Studies
Member, Western Front Association
Consulting Editor, Journal of the History of Ideas (1978-2000)
Member, Harvard University-Boston University Intellectual History Study Group
(1992-93)
Consultant to American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature
(1992-95)
Book Series Editor, "International History." Praeger Publishing Company (Coeditors Erik Goldstein and Cathal Nolan) (1999--2006)
Member of Board of Editors, H-Diplo H-NET list (2000--)
Member, Essay Prize Selection Committee, Phi Alpha Theta/Western Front
Association (2001-2010)
Member, Gilbert Chinard Prize Committee (awarded jointly by the Society for
French Historical Studies and the Institut Français de Washington for best book
on the history of themes shared by France and North, Central, and South
America (2000-02), Chair of Committee (2001-02)
External Referee for Chateaubriand Fellowships Awarded by French
Government (1999-2000, 2002-03, 2004-05, 2007-08, 2010-11, 2011-2012,
2012-2013)
Consultant to museum Le Mémorial de Caen on its project for a permanent
exhibition on the history of the Cold War (2000-2002)
Member of the Conseil Scientifique, Mémorial de Caen Museum (2003-04)
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Member, George Louis Beer Prize Committee for best book on European
International History since 1895, American Historical Association (2004-2005,
Chair of Committee, 2005-06)
External Evaluator of the New York Consortium for European Studies’
application for a renewal of its Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of
Education (2005)
Member, Selection Panel for Summer Seminars and Institutes, National
Endowment of the Humanities (2006)
External Expert Adviser to Promotion Committee, London School of Economics
and Political Science (2010--)
Member, Selection Committee for Wolf and Farrar Travel Awards, Society for
French Historical Studies (2011-12; Chair of committee, 2012-13)
Reviewer of Candidacies for Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World
Order (2011)
Consultant to various publishing companies, businesses, and professional
journals.
Book Reviewer for many scholarly journals (American Historical Review,
Journal of Modern History, Diplomatic History, H-Diplo, H-France, New Global
Studies, International History Review, etc.)
External Reviewer of Tenure and Promotion Cases for Harvard University,
Brandeis University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and other institutions
of higher learning.
Study Leader for several foreign tours sponsored by Smithsonian Institution
Lecturer on several foreign tours sponsored by the Boston University Alumni
Travel Program
Interviewee for several radio and television news programs and newspapers