This November the CWRN is excited to announce its first co-sponsoring, in person event for the new academic year. In collaboration with the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES) and the Amsterdam School for Regional Transnational & European Studies, our Network would like to invite you to the presentation of Dr. Komornicka’s latest publication,…

  The Cold War Research Network is proud to co-sponsor, together with the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), the book launch of Dr. Harilaos (Harry) Stecopoulos titled  Telling America’s Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy (Oxford University Press, November 2022).     In his latest publication, Dr. Stecopoulos draws on an extensive archival…

  The Cold War Research Network would like to draw your attention to an upcoming event, scheduled for the following month. On June 2, 2023, from 15h to 17h in the Sweelinck Hall (Drift 21, 005) there will be a symposium on “European Security” where Dr. Crump and other colleagues will highlight her research and…

The Cold War Research Network is excited to bring to your attention the new Romanian edition of Dr. Paschalis Pechlivanis’ book titled America and Romania in the Cold War – A Differentiated Détente, 1969-80.  This new edition, published by Editura Litera, will surely contribute to the dissemination of this fascinating topic to a broader audience…

The Cold War Research Network would like to draw the attention of its Spanish-speaking audience, to Dr. Froilán Ramos Rodríguez’s new publication titled Guerra Fría Global. El pensamiento militar chileno y venezolano (1960-1970).     Dr. Rodríguez is a historian that specializes in Contemporary  History and is currently a professor at de la Universidad Católica…

  The Cold War Research Network would like to draw your attention to the Call for Papers for the  New International Economic Order, Lessons and Legacies 50 Years Later conference project. In collaboration with Temple University, University College London, the History and Political Economy Project, El Colegio de México and the Berggruen Institute, the  Ca’…

  The Cold War Research Network’s co-coordinator Dr. Ruud Van Dijk has recently published a book review with the Atlantisch Perspectief (AP) magazine of the Netherlands Atlantic Association. In his article ‘The West, Russia, and NATO in the 1990s: Missed Opportunities?’  he provides a book review of two books, one by M. E Sarotte and the…

The Cold War Research Network is proud to support the Mediterranean Solidarity, call for papers initiative coordinated by Dr. Martin Baumeister (German Historical Institute in Rome), Dr. Kalliopi Geronymaki (University of Florence), and Dr. Silvia Salvatici (University of Florence). The core objective of this call for papers is to analyse how humanitarian and international aid…

The Cold War Research Network is thrilled to promote Andrei-Dumitru Olteanu and Gabriel Zvinca’s intriguing research project which revolves around the focus on stories of young people who left communist states and who helped, voluntarily or involuntarily, to create the European identity. This project is aimed at encouraging the participation of undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral…

This April the Cold War Research Network is delighted to invite you to the presentation of Una Bergmane’s new book Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse Soviet Union (Oxford University Press, April 2023).   In March 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence. Within weeks,…