Melvyn P. Leffler

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Melvyn P. Leffler

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According to Wikipedia, Melvyn Paul Leffler is an American historian and educator, currently Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the Bancroft Prize for his book A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War, and the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize for his book For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War.

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Melvyn P. Leffler's Published Works

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A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (1992) (245)
The Cambridge History of the Cold War (2010) (199)
For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (2007) (108)
Bush's Foreign Policy (2004) (73)
The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953 (1994) (66)
Origins of the Cold War: An International History (1994) (66)
From Cold War to Cold War in the Near East@@@The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece. (1980) (62)
The Cold War: What Do “We Now Know”? (1999) (59)
Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: The United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945–1952 (1985) (57)
The American Conception of National Security and the Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945–1948 (1984) (52)
The Elusive Quest: America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933 (1979) (51)
The Round Table (1951) (47)
The United States and the Strategic Dimensions of the Marshall Plan (1988) (41)
9/11 and the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy (2003) (38)
9/11 and American Foreign Policy (2005) (29)
To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine (2008) (28)
Inside Enemy Archives: The Cold War Reopened (1996) (26)
The emergence of an American grand strategy, 1945–1952 (2010) (26)
A Preponderance of Power (1992) (21)
The World Economy and the Cold War in the Middle of the Twentieth Century (2011) (20)
The Origins of Republican War Debt Policy, 1921-1923: A Case Study in the Applicability of the Open Door Interpretation (1972) (19)
Presidential Address: New Approaches, Old Interpretations, and Prospective Reconfigurations (1995) (18)
Adherence to Agreements: Yalta and the Experiences of the Early Cold War (1986) (14)
The Foreign Policies of the George W. Bush Administration: Memoirs, History, Legacy (2013) (13)
1. Brazil: Shadows of the Past and Contested Ambitions (2016) (12)
Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World (2016) (11)
Informal Entente: The Private Structure of Cooperation in Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy, 1918–1928. By Michael J. Hogan. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1977. viii + 254 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.) (1978) (11)
America in the World: New Approaches, Old Interpretations, and Prospective Reconfigurations (1996) (11)
From the Truman Doctrine to the Carter Doctrine: Lessons and Dilemmas of the Cold War (1983) (10)
In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11 (2011) (8)
Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933 Frank Costigliola (1986) (7)
NATIONAL SECURITY AND US FOREIGN POLICY (2002) (5)
September 11 in Retrospect (2011) (4)
American Policy Making and European Stability, 1921 - 1933 (1977) (4)
6. U.S. Strategic Planning in 2001–02 (2011) (4)
4. The Strange Career of the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance (2011) (4)
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015 (2017) (4)
Was the Cold War Necessary (1991) (3)
Ronald Reagan and the Cold War: What Mattered Most (May 2018) (2018) (3)
Transnational organizations and the Cold War (2010) (3)
Navigating the Unknown (2011) (3)
3. Germany: Between Power and Responsibility (2016) (3)
The struggle for stability : American policy toward France, 1921-1933 / (1972) (3)
Avoiding another Cold War (2019) (3)
East Central Europe, 1953–1956 (2010) (3)
Negotiating from Strength: Acheson, the Russians, and American Power (1993) (2)
Cold War and Global Hegemony, 1945–1991 (2005) (2)
The interpretive wars over the Cold War, 1945–60 (2002) (2)
Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations: National Security (2004) (2)
The biosphere and the Cold War (2010) (2)
Crises and détente (2010) (2)
Trump’s Delusional National Security Strategy (2017) (2)
Strategy in a Murky World (2011) (1)
Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War (2019) (1)
Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe (2021) (1)
Uncertain times (2013) (1)
9. Faulty Learning and Flawed Policies in Afghanistan and Iraq (2011) (1)
Victory: The “State,” The “West,” and the Cold War (2019) (1)
2. An Architecture of U.S. Strategy after the Cold War (2011) (1)
Dilemmas of Strategy (2008) (1)
Dreams of Freedom, Temptations of Power (2012) (1)
The Strategic Thinking That Made America Great (2018) (1)
7. Questing for Monsters to Destroy (2011) (1)
Defense on a Diet (2013) (1)
Human Agency and International History (2023) (0)
3. Shaping the Future: Planning at the Pentagon, 1989–93 (2017) (0)
6. Russia: Geopolitics and Identity (2016) (0)
U.S. Cold War Diplomacy and Politics Revisited (1997) (0)
America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity. By Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2009. 439 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-674-03553-9.) (2010) (0)
Cold War Legacies and Contemporary Dilemmas (2008) (0)
Introduction: Making National Strategy in the Twenty-First Century (2016) (0)
2. Herbert Hoover, the “New Era,” and American Foreign Policy, 1921– 1929 (2017) (0)
U.s. Foreign policy after hiroshima. (1981) (0)
Silica's effect on anoxia (1993) (0)
Austerity and U.S. Strategy (2019) (0)
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism (2019) (0)
Conclusion: Strategy in a Murky World (2011) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
2. China: Security Dilemma and “Win Win” (2016) (0)
Herbert Hoover, the “New Era,” and American Foreign Policy, 1921–1929 (2019) (0)
10. Austerity and U.S. Strategy: Lessons of the Past (2017) (0)
Book reviews (2007) (0)
Saving International Capitalism During the Early Truman Presidency: The National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems. By Kevin M. Casey. New York: Routledge, 2001. 256 pp. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0–815–33954–2 (2002) (0)
The 1970s: Change or Continuity in American Foreign Policy (2015) (0)
Adherence to Agreements (2019) (0)
8. The Assumptions Did It (2011) (0)
Reflections on SHAFR at Forty (2007) (0)
Shaper Nations: Stategies for a Changing World (2016) (0)
10. How Did the Experts Do (2017) (0)
Kenneth Paul Jones, editor. U.S. Diplomats in Europe, 1919–1941. Foreword by Alexander Deconde. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Abc-Clio. 1981. Pp. xxiii, 240. $35.00 (1982) (0)
Book Reviews (2010) (0)
Victory (2019) (0)
Reassessing the Cold War (2012) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
National Security (2019) (0)
Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe by Lorenz M. Lüthi (review) (2021) (0)
Economic Diplomacy: The Export-Import Bank and American Foreign Policy, 1934–1939. By Frederick C. Adams. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1976. xi + 289 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.) (1977) (0)
5. A Crisis of Opportunity: The Clinton Administration and Russia (2017) (0)
One Hundred Years of Russian-American Relations (2018) (0)
1. Ronald Reagan and the Cold War (2021) (0)
Cold Warriors: Wise, Prudent, and Foolish@@@A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. (1992) (0)
Fighting World War Three from the Middle East: Allied Contingency Plans, 1945-1954 (review) (2012) (0)
Curt Cardwell, NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 298 pp. (2012) (0)
Conclusion: The World They Will Make (2016) (0)
The Origins of Republican War Debt Policy, 1921–1923 (2019) (0)
4. India: Modernization in a Safe Neighborhood (2016) (0)
5. Israel: Strategic Vision Adrift (2016) (0)
Political Isolationism, Economic Expansionism, or Diplomatic Realism (2019) (0)
Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics (2013) (0)
Revisiting the Imperium (2015) (0)
Introduction: Navigating the Unknown (2011) (0)
Policymakers and Power: Post–Cold War Reconsiderations of the Origins of Containment and the National Security State (1994) (0)
NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War (review) (2012) (0)
Politics and National Security (2011) (0)
8. United States: Grappling with Rising Powers (2016) (0)
The inevitable tragedy. The United States embroilment in Vietnam (2004) (0)
1. The Wall Comes Down: A Punctuational Moment (2017) (0)
Ruminating During a Pandemic (2021) (0)
Introduction: Embracing Complexity (2019) (0)
A Note on the Type (2017) (0)
America in the World: Commentaries (1996) (0)

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