Journal Articles
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“‘Ending our support for the dictators’: Ed Koch, Uruguay, and human rights”
Cold War History 21:1 (January 2021): 19-36.
“The 1968 International Year for Human Rights: A Missed Opportunity in the United States”
Diplomatic History 42: 5 (November 2018): 831–858
“Americans’ Human Rights Activism in the Long 1960s”
European Journal of Human Rights 2 (2016) 221-33
“Beyond Containment?: The First Bush Administration’s Sceptical Approach to the CSCE”
Cold War History 13:4 (November 2013): 463-484
“‘A Call for U.S. Leadership’: Congressional Activism on Human Rights”
Diplomatic History 37:2 (April 2013): 372-397
“Bringing the Transnational In: Writing Human Rights into the International History of the Cold War”
Diplomacy and Statecraft 24:1 (March 2013): 100-116
“Exporting Amnesty International to the United States: Transatlantic Human Rights Activism in the 1960s”
Human Rights Quarterly 34:3 (August 2012): 779-799
“The Foundation for Vienna: A Reassessment of the CSCE in the mid-1980s”
Cold War History 10:4 (November 2010): 493-512
“Through the Looking Glass: The Helsinki Final Act and the 1976 Election for President”
Diplomacy and Statecraft 21:1 (March 2010): 87-106
Reprinted in The Cold War, ed. Steven Casey (Routledge, 2013)
“The CSCE and the Atlantic Alliance: Forging a New Consensus in Madrid”
Journal of Transatlantic Studies 8:1 (March 2010): 56-68
“‘Jerry, Don’t Go’: Domestic Opposition to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act”
Journal of American Studies 44:1 (February 2010): 67-81
SCHOLARLY CHAPTERS
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“The Trump Administration’s Insidious Approach to Human Rights”
Published by H-Diplo/ISSF, May 25, 2021.
“The Changing History of the End of the Cold War”
in Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football since 1914, ed. Heather L. Dichter, (University of Kentucky Press, 2020)
“U.S. Human Rights Policy since 1948”
in The Routledge History of Human Rights, ed. Jean Quataert and Lora Wildenthal, (Routledge, 2019)
“‘The Situation in Greece’: Human Rights Activism in the Wake of the 1967 Coup”
in The Greek Dictatorship and the International System: A Case Study of Southern European Dictatorships, 1967-74, ed. Antonis Klapsis, Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, and Effie G. H. Pedaliu, (Routledge, 2020)
“Playing on the Same Team: What International and Sport Historians Can Learn From Each Other”
in Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football since 1914, ed. Heather L. Dichter, (University of Kentucky Press, 2020)
“Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy”
in Oxford Reference Encyclopedia (ORE) in American History, ed. Mark Lawrence, (Oxford University Press, 2016)
“‘No Crowing’: Reagan, Trust, and Human Rights”
in “Trust, but Verify”: The Politics of Uncertainty and the Transformation of the Cold War Order, 1969-1971, ed. Reinhild Kreis, Martin Klimke, and Christian Ostermann, (Stanford University Press, 2016)
“The Rise of Human Rights During the Johnson Years”
in Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s, ed. Francis J. Gavin and Mark Atwood Lawrence, (Oxford University Press, 2014)
“Principles Overwhelming Tanks: Human Rights and the End of the Cold War”
in The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, ed. Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde, and William Hitchcock, (Oxford University Press, 2011)
“The Defeat of Ernest Lefever’s Nomination: Keeping Human Rights on the United States Foreign Policy Agenda”
in Challenging US Foreign Policy: America and the World in the Long Twentieth Century, ed. Bevan Sewell and Scott Lucas, (Palgrave, 2011)
“‘Promising Everything Under the Sun’: Helsinki Activism and Human Rights in Eastern Europe”
in The ‘Establishment’ Responds: Power and Protest During and After the Cold War, ed. Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
“The Rise of the Helsinki Network: ‘A Sort of Lifeline’ for Eastern Europe”
in Perforating the Iron Curtain: European Détente, Transatlantic Relations, and the Cold War, 1965-1985, ed. Odd Arne Westad and Poul Villaume, (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2009)
“The U.S., Western Europe, and the CSCE, 1972−1975”
in The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter, ed. Matthias Schulz and Thomas A. Schwartz, (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
SCHOLARLY ESSAYS
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“Human Rights”
in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Diplomacy, ed. Gordon Martel, (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)
“Human Rights in the Cold War”
in The Routledge International Handbook of the Cold War, ed. Artemy Kalinovsky and Craig Daigle, (Routledge, 2014)
“Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review”
in Passport (Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter, April 2013)
“Transnational Communities: A Global Legacy of the Cold War”
in Erbe des Kalten Krieges, ed. Bernd Greiner, et al., (Hamburger Edition, 2013)
Review of The Struggle over Human Rights: The Non-Aligned Movement, Jimmy Carter, and Neoliberalism
by Courtney Hercus; published by Journal of American History 107:4 (March 2021): 1058.
Review of U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights
by Kelly J. Shannon; published by Human Rights Quarterly 42:4 (November 2020): 967-969.
Review of American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction
by Andrew Preston; published by American Historical Review, 125: 4 (October 2020): 1354-5.
Review of A World Divided The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation States
by Eric Weitz; published by H-Diplo/ISSF July 6, 2020.
Review of Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid
by Heather D. Curtis; published by The English Historical Review 135: 574 (June 2020) 716-18. (PDF)
Review of Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945
by Emma Kuby; published by H-Diplo/ISSF December 16, 2019. (PDF)
Review of The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals
by Melani McAlister; for The English Historical Review, 135: 572 (February 2020): 252–254. (PDF)
Review of The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European ConventionThe Cold War: A Global History
by Marco Duranti; for The Journal of Modern History 90: 4 (December 2018): 926-928
Review of The Cold War: A Global History
by Odd Arne Westad; Cold War History 18:2 (2018): 243-245
Review of Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970-1990
by Kristina Spohr and David Reynolds, eds.; for The English Historical Review
Review of Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century
by Kathryn Sikkink; H-Diplo, Volume XIX, No. 28 (2018)
Review of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
by Mark Philip Bradley; published by H-Diplo, September 7, 2017
Review of Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
by Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan; Journal of Cold War Studies, 19:3 (Summer 2017): 233-234
Review of A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s
by Daniel T. Sargent; for Journal of American History 102:3 (December 2015): 954
Review of Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War
by Gregory F. Domber; published by H-Diplo, September 11, 2015
Review of The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s
Jan Eckel and Samuel Moyn, eds.; for International Studies Review 17:3 (September 2015): 460-2
Review of Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s
by Barbara J. Keys; published by H-Diplo November 11, 2014
Review of “American Vernaculars: The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination”
by Mark Philip Bradley; for Diplomatic History 38:1 (January 2014), published by H-Diplo July 25, 2014
Review of Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power
by Glenn Mitoma; for American Historical Review 119:3 (2014): 927-928
Review of Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990
Frédéric Bozo, Marie-Pierre Rey, N. Piers Ludlow and Bernd Rother, eds.; for Cold War History 13:4 (November 2013): 570-571
Review of Brent Scowcroft: Internationalism and Post-Vietnam War American Foreign Policy
by David F. Schmitz; for Cold War History 13:1 (2013): 139-140
Review of The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond
by Hannah Gurman; published by H-Diplo November 7, 2012
Review of An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy
by Betty Glad; for Cold War History 12:1 (2012): 174-175
Review of Globalizing Human Rights: Private Citizens, the Soviet Union, and the West
by Christian Peterson; published by H-Human Rights, February 15, 2012
Review of Masterpieces of History: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989
Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas Blanton and Vladislav Zubok, eds.; for Journal of American Studies 46:4 (November 2012): doi: 10.1017/S0021875812001661
Review of “Institutionalizing Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy: U.S. Argentine Relations, 1976-1980”
by William Michael Schmidli; for Diplomatic History 35:2 (April 2011), published by H-Diplo May 27, 2011
Review of 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
by Mary Elise Sarotte; for Journal of Cold War Studies 13:1 (Winter 2011): 258-60
Review of “Special Forum: Reconsidering the Foreign Policy of the First Bush Administration, Twenty Years On”
Diplomatic History 34:1 (January 2010), published by H-Diplo on May 11, 2010
Review of Human Rights, Perestroika, and the End of the Cold War
by Anatoly Adamishin and Richard Schifter; published by H-Human Rights on March 13, 2010
Review of Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees During the Cold War
by Carl J. Bon Tempo; for Journal of American Studies 43:3 (December 2009): 566-7
Review of “Helsinki Myths: Setting the Record Straight on the Final Act of the CSCE, 1975”
by Richard Davy; for Cold War History 9:1 (February 2009), published by H-Diplo on May 27, 2009
Image credits
Top section background: Secretary of State George Shultz and United States Ambassador to the Madrid CSCE Review Meeting Max Kampelman discuss the negotiations in Madrid with President Ronald Reagan on July 13, 1983. Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Library.
Journal Articles background: President Gerald R. Ford signs legislation creating the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe as Representative Millicent Fenwick and Senator Clifford Case, the bill’s sponsors, observe. Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library.
Scholarly Chapters background: Jimmy Carter hosts a ceremony commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. – NARA – 182626. via Wikimedia.
Scholarly Essays background: Soviet Union stamp, 15th anniversary of Universal Human Rights Declaration, end of colonialism; 1963, 6 kop., used, CPA No. 2963. via Wikimedia.
Authored Reviews background: Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg confers with Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One. LBJ Library Photo by Yoichi Okamoto.