Cold War Studies at Harvard University

 
 
 

About the Journal of Cold War Studies

Please direct all Journal-related inquiries, comments, and electronic submissions to the Journal's new email account: jcws@fas.harvard.edu.

Please note that the Journal has shifted to a quarterly publication schedule. Subscriptions are now offered for both the print and the electronic versions of the Journal. Visit the subscriptions page for ordering information and rates from MIT Press.


Scope

The Journal of Cold War Studies features peer-reviewed articles based on archival research in the former Communist world and in Western countries. Some articles offer reevaluations of important historical events or themes, emphasizing the changes of interpretation necessitated by declassified documents and new firsthand accounts. Other articles seek to bring new evidence to bear on current theoretical debates. Many existing theories of international and domestic politics have relied on generalizations from the Cold War period, but until very recently the evidence for these generalizations was tenuous at best. Articles in the Journal of Cold War Studies use declassified materials and new memoirs from the former Eastern bloc and Western countries to illuminate and raise questions about numerous theoretical concerns, including theories of decision-making, deterrence, bureaucratic politics, institutional formation, bargaining, diplomacy, foreign policy conduct, and international relations. Drawing on the latest evidence, articles in the Journal subject these theories, and others, to rigorous empirical analysis. The Journal's emphasis on the use of new evidence for theoretical purposes is in no way intended to exclude solid historical reassessments, but articles set within a theoretical context are particularly encouraged.The Journal's Editorial Board consists of 32 distinguished political scientists, historians, and specialists on international relations.

 

Discussion Forum

We have also included a Discussion Forum on selected articles from the first volume of the Journal. The Forum was recently expanded when new comments on several articles were added in December 2006.

 

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Description

In 1999 the Project began publishing the Journal of Cold War Studies, which has been praised by authoritative outlets such as Library Journal and Foreign Policy. The latter said in its Summer 1999 issue that "the Journal of Cold War Studies promises to be a leading forum for path-breaking archival research" and that "the journal fills an important void for historians and political scientists studying the Cold War." Abstracts of featured articles are now available, and we have posted the full text of two articles online as Adobe PDF files.

 

"Politics, Power, and U.S. Policy in Iran, 1950-1953" (Volume 1, Issue 1) by Francis Gavin

"Mobilizing Europe's Stateless: America's Plan for a Cold War Army" (Volume 1, Issue 2) by James Jay Carafano.

"Eisenhower and the Berlin Problem, 1953-1954" (Volume 2, Issue 1) by David Coleman.

"Sino-Soviet Relations and the Origins of the Korean War: Stalin's Strategic Goals in the Far East" (Volume 2, Issue 2) by Shen Zhihua.

"Stalin, Togliatti, and the Origins of the Cold War in Europe" (Volume 3, Issue 2) by Silvio Pons

"The Politics of Cold War Culture" (Volume 3, Issue 3) by Tony Shaw

"From Anti-Westernism to Anti-Semitism" (Volume 4, Issue 1) by Konstantin Azadovskii and Boris Egorov

"Litvinov's Lost Peace, 1941-1946" (Volume 4, Issue 2) by Geoffrey Roberts

"The Prelude to Nationwide Surveillance in East Germany: Stasi Operations and Threat Perceptions, 1945-1953" (Volume 5, Issue 2) by Gary Bruce

"Official Policies and Covert Programs: The U.S. State Department, the CIA, and the Tibetan Resistance"(Volume 5, Issue 3) by John Kenneth Knaus

"The Nixon Administration, the "Horror Strategy," and the Search for Limited Nuclear Options, 1969-1972" (Volume 7, Issue 3) by William Burr

"Reenacting the Story of Tantalus": Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Failed Rhetoric of Liberation" (Volume 7, Issue 4) by Chris Tudda

"A Fusion Bomb over Andalucía: U.S. Information Policy and the 1966 Palomares Incident" (Volume 8, Issue 1) by David Stiles

"The Tibetan Rebellion of 1959 and China's Changing Relations with India and the Soviet Union" (Volume 8, Issue 3) by Chen Jian

"China's Elite Politics and Sino-American Rapprochement, January 1969–February 1972" (Volume 8, Issue 4) by Yafeng Xia

"Malaya, 1948: Britain's Asian Cold War?" (Volume 9, Issue 1) by Philip Deery

"A Most Special Relationship: The Origins of Anglo-America Nuclear Strike Planning"(Volume 9, Issue 2) by Ken Young

“Pearl Harbor in Reverse” Moral Analogies in the Cuban Missile Crisis (Volume 9, Issue 3), by Dominic Tierney

"No Fixed Values": A Reinterpretation of the Influence of the Theory of Guerre Révolutionnaire and the Battle of Algiers, 1956–1957 (Volume 9, Issue 4), by Christopher Cradock and M.L.R. Smith

The Journal is edited by Mark Kramer, Harvard University, and published by The MIT Press for the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies.