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Former Fulbright Fellow Ang Chen Guan published in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

CWIHP Publishes The Vassiliev Notebooks Online

Call for Papers: The End of the Cold War and the Third World

Call for Applications Superpower Rivalry and the Third Way(s) in the Mediterranean

New from the CWIHP Book Series: Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967, by Sergey Radchenko

New CWIHP Publication: "Exploiting and Securing the Open Border in Berlin" by Paul Maddrell

Former CWIHP Intern Eliza Gheorghe Presents at International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War




Event Summaries
The Securitate Files: Silviu Brucan and the Communist Regime in Romania in the 1980s
Thursday, March 26 2009, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Radu Ioanid, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Gheorghe Campeanu, international banking consultant, and Mircea Raceanu, retired Romanian diplomat
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The Nuclear Challenge: Italian Foreign Policy and Atomic Weapons, 1945-1991
Tuesday, February 17 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Leopoldo Nuti, Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies; Amb. Richard Gardner, Columbia University; James Miller, Georgetown University and Department of State Foreign Service Institute
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Book Launch—The Bomb: A New History
Friday, February 27 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
author Stephen M. Younger, former Senior Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Senior Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Work in Progress: "The Vietnam-Soviet Union-China Triangle Relations during the Vietnam War (1964-1973) from Vietnamese Sources" with Pham Quang Minh
Friday, February 20 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Communist Romania's Cultural Cold War, 1947-1960
Thursday, May 14, 2009 (12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.)

Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 (12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.)

Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks and the Documentation of Soviet Intelligence Operations in the United States, 1930-1950
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 (3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)

Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks and the Documentation of Soviet Intelligence Operations in the United States, 1930-1950
Thursday, May 21, 2009 (10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)

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