Mark Atwood Lawrence
Associate Professor — Ph.D., 1999, Yale University

Contact
- E-mail: malawrence@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-475-9304
- Office: GAR 3.220
- Office Hours: Fall 2018: Tuesday, 2-3:30 p.m.; Thursday, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.; and by appointment
- Campus Mail Code: B7000
Biography
Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History, Distinguished Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and Director of Graduate Studies at the Clements Center for National Security at The University of Texas at Austin. I received my B.A. from Stanford University in 1988 and my doctorate from Yale in 1999. After teaching as a lecturer in history at Yale, I joined the History Department at UT Austin in 2000. Since then, I have published two books, Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2005) and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (Oxford University Press, 2008).
I have also published an edited collection of primary sources entitled The Vietnam War: An International History in Documents (Oxford University Press, 2014) and four co-edited books: Nation-States and the Global Environment: New Studies in International Environmental History (Oxford University Press, 2013), Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s (Oxford University Press, 2014), Beyond the Eagle’s Shadow: New Histories of Latin America’s Cold War (University of New Mexico Press, 2014), and The United States and the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror (Princeton University Press, 2014).
I am now at work on a study of U.S. policymaking toward the developing world in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Research interests
U.S. Foreign Relations, the Vietnam War, International History, Decolonization
Courses taught
The United States Since 1865, The Vietnam Wars, American Foreign Relations, The Cold War in the 1960s, The Nuclear Age, The Johnson Years, Lessons and Legacies of the Vietnam War, America Since 1941
Major Awards/Honors
Appointed Stanley Kaplan Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at William College (2011-2012); recipient of the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize and Paul Birdsall Prize for Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (2006); winner of President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award (2005)
Courses
HMN 351C • The Johnson Years-Wb
29235 • Fall 2020
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
HIS 333L • Us Foreign Relatns, 1776-1914
38180 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MEZ B0.306
HI
HMN 350 • Johnson Years
29300 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM LBJ 10.150
(also listed as LAH 350)
HIS 365G • Us/Britain/Global Order-Gbr
39115 • Spring 2019
HI
HIS 365G • Vietnam Wars
39120 • Spring 2019
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM JGB 2.216
HI
(also listed as AMS 321)
HIS 389 • Research In International Hist
39225 • Spring 2019
Meets T 9:30AM-12:30PM GAR 2.124
HIS 355P • United States Since 1941
39290 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MEZ B0.306
CD
HI
HMN 350 • Johnson Years
29850 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM LBJ 10.150
(also listed as LAH 350)
HIS 333M • Us Foreign Relatns, 1914-Pres
38970 • Spring 2018
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM MEZ B0.306
E
HI
HIS 365G • Us/Britain/Global Order-Gbr
39215 • Spring 2018
HI
HIS 389 • Research In International Hist
39335 • Spring 2018
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM GAR 2.124
HIS 333L • Us Foreign Relatns, 1776-1914
39485 • Fall 2017
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM JGB 2.218
HI
LAH 350 • Johnson Years
30270 • Fall 2017
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM LBJ 10.150
HIS 355P • United States Since 1941
39545 • Spring 2017
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM MEZ B0.306
CD
HI
HIS 392 • Readings In Us Foreign Relatns
39760 • Spring 2017
Meets M 2:00PM-5:00PM SRH 3.360
(also listed as REE 387)
HIS 333M • Us Foreign Relatns, 1914-Pres
39235 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM MEZ B0.306
E
HI
HMN 350 • Johnson Years
39810 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM LBJ 10.150
(also listed as LAH 350)
HIS 355P • United States Since 1941
38775 • Spring 2016
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM GAR 0.102
CD
HIS 365G • Us/Britain/Global Order-Gbr
38860 • Spring 2016
HIS 392 • Readings In Us Foreign Relatns
39010 • Spring 2016
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 1.122
(also listed as REE 387)
HIS 333M • Us Foreign Relatns, 1914-Pres
38485 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM UTC 3.132
E
HI
HMN 350 • Johnson Years
39075 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM LBJ 10.150
(also listed as LAH 350)
HIS 365G • British Strategic Trad-Gbr
38830 • Spring 2015
HIS 365G • Vietnam Wars
38840 • Spring 2015
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.306
(also listed as AMS 321)
HIS 389 • Research In International Hist
39925 • Fall 2014
Meets W 1:00PM-4:00PM GAR 1.122
HIS 333M • Us Foreign Relatns, 1914-Pres
39815 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM GDC 2.216
HI
LAH 350 • Legacies/Lessons: Vietnam War
30449 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CRD 007B
HIS 333L • Us Foreign Relatns, 1776-1914
39745 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAI 3.02
HI
HIS 392 • Readings In Us Foreign Relatns
40200 • Fall 2013
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 2.124
HIS 365G • Vietnam Wars
39715 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM JGB 2.218
HI
LAH 350 • U.S. Grand Strategy
30190 • Spring 2013
Meets TH 3:30PM-6:30PM CRD 007B
HIS 389 • Research In International Hist
39620 • Fall 2010
Meets T 2:00PM-5:00PM PAR 214
HIS S315L • United States Since 1865
85115 • Summer 2010
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM MEZ 1.306
CD
HI
HIS 333M • Us Foreign Relatns, 1914-Pres
39540 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM JGB 2.218
HI
T C 357 • Key Debates Hist Us Frgn Rel-W
43590 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM CRD 007B
C2
HIS 333L • Us Foreign Relatns, 1776-1914
39910 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM GSB 2.126
HI
HIS 381 • Cold War
40225 • Fall 2009
Meets T 6:00PM-9:00PM GAR 1.122
ANS 372 • Vietnam Wars
31362 • Fall 2008
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM GAR 0.102
HI
HIS 392 • Readings In Us Foreign Relatns
40650 • Fall 2008
Meets T 6:00PM-9:00PM PAR 8C
HIS 315L • United States Since 1865
38595 • Spring 2006
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM WCH 1.120
HI
HIS 347L • Seminar In Historiography-W
38785 • Spring 2006
Meets TH 2:00PM-5:00PM CBA 4.342
C2
HIS 333M • Diplomat Hist Of Us Since 1890
38535 • Fall 2005
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM GSB 2.126
HI
HIS 381 • Cold War
38847 • Fall 2005
Meets T 6:00PM-9:00PM BEN 1.118
HIS 315L • United States Since 1865
37970 • Fall 2004
Meets TTH 8:00AM-9:30AM WEL 1.308
HI
HIS 392 • New Appros To Us Foreign Rels
38665 • Fall 2004
Meets TH 2:00PM-5:00PM GAR 107
HIS 315L • United States Since 1865
35640 • Spring 2004
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM UTC 2.112A
HI
ANS 372 • The Vietnam Wars
27632 • Fall 2003
Meets TTH 8:00AM-9:30AM GEO 2.216
HI
HIS 389 • Research In Cold War History
36965 • Fall 2003
Meets T 2:00PM-5:00PM GAR 205
HIS 315L • United States Since 1865
35430 • Spring 2003
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM BAT 7
HI
HIS 381 • Cold War
35930 • Spring 2003
Meets M 6:00PM-9:00PM GAR 205
HIS 333M • Diplomat Hist Of Us Since 1890
35490 • Spring 2002
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM WEL 2.308
HI
HIS 315L • United States Since 1865
36450-36495 • Fall 2001
Meets MW 1:00PM-2:00PM WEL 2.224
HI
HIS 389 • Rsch In Us Foreign Relations
36985 • Fall 2001
Meets W 9:00AM-12:00PM GAR 107
HIS 315L • United States Since 1865
35335-35380 • Spring 2001
Meets MW 9:00AM-10:00AM WEL 1.308
HI
HIS 392 • New Appros To Us Foreign Rels
35820 • Spring 2001
Meets T 2:00PM-5:00PM GAR 205
HIS 315L • United States Since 1865
36165 • Fall 2000
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM GAR 1
HI
Books
The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
Assuming the Burdern: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam
Mark Atwood Lawrence
Assuming the Burdern: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam
2005
University of California Press
America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror
Mark Atwood Lawrence, Jeffrey A. Engel & Andrew Preston
America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror
2014
Princeton University Press
The Vietnam War: An International History in Documents
Mark Atwood Lawrence
The Vietnam War: An International History in Documents
2014
Oxford University Press
Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s
Mark Atwood Lawrence, Francis J. Gavin
Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s
2014
Oxford University Press
Major Problems in American History Since 1945
Mark Atwood Lawrence, Natasha Zaretsky, Robert Griffith, and Paula Baker
Major Problems in American History Since 1945
2014
Cengage
Beyond the Eagle’s Shadow: New Histories of Latin America’s Cold War
Mark Atwood Lawrence, Virginia Garrard Burnett and Julio Moreno
Beyond the Eagle’s Shadow: New Histories of Latin America’s Cold War
2013
University of New Mexico
Nation-States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History
Mark Atwood Lawrence, Erika Marie Bsumek and David Kinkela
Nation-States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History
2013
Oxford University Press
The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis
Mark Atwood Lawrence, Fredrik Logevall
The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis
2007
Harvard University Press
The New York Times Twentieth Century in Review: The Vietnam War
Mark Atwood Lawrence
The New York Times Twentieth Century in Review: The Vietnam War
2002
Fitzroy- Dearborn Publishers
Articles & Essays
“Policymaking and the Uses of the Vietnam War,” in The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft, ed. Hal Brands and Jeremi Suri (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2015).
“Explaining the Rise to Global Power: U.S. Policy toward Asia and Africa since 1941,” in America in the World: The Historiography of U.S. Foreign Relations since 1941, 2nd edition, ed. Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014): 236-259.
“The Rise and Fall of Non-Alignment,” in The Cold War in the Third World, ed. Robert J. McMahon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013): 139-155.
“Setting the Pattern: The Truman Administration and Southeast Asia,” in A Companion to Harry S. Truman, ed. Daniel S. Margolies (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012): 532-551.
“LBJ and the New Global Challenges,” in A Companion to Lyndon Baines Johnson, ed. Mitchell B. Lerner (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012): 450-465.
“Latin America and the Quest for Stability,” in A Companion to Richard M. Nixon, ed. Melvin Small (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011): 460-477.
“Against the Globalizing Grain: The United States and the Developing World from Kennedy to Kissinger,” in Africa, Empire, and Globalization: Essays in Honor of A.G. Hopkins, ed. Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2011): 555-568.
“Too Late or Too Soon? Debating the Withdrawal from Vietnam in the Age of Iraq,” invited contribution for Diplomatic History, vol. 34, no. 3 (June 2010): 589-600.
“Caricature for Caricature? The Vietnamese Context in Triumph Forsaken,” in Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War, ed. Andrew Wiest and Michael J. Doidge (London: Routledge, 2010): 171-181.
“Containing Globalism: The United States and the Developing World in the 1970s,” in The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, ed. Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel J. Sargent (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010): 205-219.
“Recasting Vietnam: The Bao Dai Solution and the Outbreak of the Cold War in Southeast Asia,” in Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, ed. Christopher E. Goscha and Christian Ostermann (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009): 15-38.
“History from Below: The United States and Latin America in the Nixon Years,” in Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977, ed. Fredrik Logevall and Andrew Preston (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 269-288.
“Explaining the Early Decisions: The United States and the French War, 1945-1954,” in Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives, ed. Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 23-44.
“Kennedy’s Cuban Dilemma: The United States and Castro after the Missile Crisis,” in John F. Kennedy and the “Thousand Days”: New Perspectives on the Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Kennedy Administration, ed. Manfred Berg and Andreas Etges (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007): 153-174.
“Forging the ‘Great Combination’: Britain and the Indochina Problem, 1945-1950,” in The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, ed. Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007): 105-129.
“Universal Claims, Local Uses: Reconceptualizing the Vietnam Conflict, 1945-1960,” in Global History: Interactions Between the Universal and the Local, ed. Anthony G. Hopkins (London: Macmillan, 2006): 229-256.
“Mission Intolerable: Harrison Salisbury’s Trip to Hanoi and the Limits of Dissent Against the Vietnam War,” Pacific Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 3 (August 2006): 429- 459.
“Exception to the Rule? The Johnson Administration and the Panama Canal,” in Looking Back at LBJ: White House Politics in a New Light, ed. Mitchell B. Lerner (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2005): 20-52.
“The Uses of Vietnam in the Age of Terrorism,” invited essay for International Journal, vol. 59, no. 4 (fall 2004): 919-928.
“The Limits of Peace Making: India and the Vietnam War, 1962-1967,” The India Review, vol. 1, no. 3 (July 2002): 39-72. Article under same title appears as a chapter in The Search for Peace in Vietnam, ed. Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004): 231-259.
“Transnational Coalition-Building and the Making of the Cold War in Indochina, 1947- 1950,” Diplomatic History, vol. 26, no. 3 (summer 2002): 453-480.
Book Reviews
Review of Greg Grandin, Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2015), The New York Times Book Review, October 4, 2015, 13.
Review of Daniel J. Sargent, A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), in Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, vol. 46, no. 2 (September 2015), 14-15.
"Brief Burst of Liberalism Ushered in LBJ Victories," review of Julian E. Zelizer,The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (New York: Penguin, 2015), Austin American-Statesman, August 30, 2015, E3.
Review of Jessica Squires, Building Sanctuary: The Movement to Support Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, 1965-1973 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013), in University of Toronto Quarterly, Letters in Canada 2013, vol. 84, no. 3 (summer 2015): 255-257.
Review of Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini, eds., Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013), in History: Reviews of New Books vol. 43, no. 2 (April 2015): 77-78.
“The General,” review of Debi and Irwin Unger, George Marshall: A Biography (New York: Harper Collins, 2014), The New York Times Book Review, November 30, 2014, 26.
Review of website, “Digital Archive: International History Declassified” (www.digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org), in Journal of American History vol. 100, no. 3 (December 2013): 947-948.
Review of Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), in Journal of Vietnamese Studies vol. 8, no. 1 (winter 2013): 180-182.
Review of Eugenie M. Blang, Allies at Odds: America, Europe, and Vietnam, 1961-1968 (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), in Diplomatic History vol. 37, no. 4 (September 2013): 914-916.
“Land of Mystery,” review of Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea (New York: Norton, 2013, and Andrei Lankov, The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), in The New York Times Book Review, September 1, 2013, 20.
Review of Kristan Stoddart, Losing an Empire and Finding a Role: Britain, the USA, NATO, and Nuclear Weapons, 1964-1970 (New York: Palgrave, 2012), in American Historical Review vol. 118, no. 3 (June 2013): 825.
Review of Andrew J. Bacevich, ed., The Short American Century: A Postmortem (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012), in Journal of American Studies vol. 47, no. 1 (February 2013): 293-294.
Review of David Hunt, Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008), in Journal of Cold War Studies vol. 14, no. 1 (winter 2012): 121-123.
Review of David L. Anderson, ed., The Columbia History of the Vietnam War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), in Pacific Historical Review vol. 81, no. 4 (November 2012): 673-674.
Review of Richard H. Immerman, Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010), in The History Teacher vol.44, no. 4 (August 2011): 616-618.
Review of Bernd Greiner, War Without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), in Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 13, no. 3 (summer 2011): 196-199.
Review of Alistair Horne, Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), in Political Science Quarterly,vol. 125, no. 4 (winter 2010-2011): 709-711.
Review of James M. Carter, Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), and David Milne, America’s Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008), in Diplomatic History, vol. 34, no. 4 (September 2010): 751-756.
Review of Gary R. Hess, Vietnam: Explaining America’s Lost War (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2009), in Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 12, no. 3 (summer 2010): 160-162.
“The Heart of a Realist,” review of John Lukacs, ed., Through the History of the Cold War: The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), in The New York Times Book Review, July 25, 2010, 22.
“No Good Guys,” review of Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (New York: Viking, 2010), in Austin American- Statesman, June 20, 2010, H5.
“Of Cold War and Peace,” review of Neil Sheehan, A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon (New York: Random House, 2009), in Austin American-Statesman, October 18, 2009, H5.
“Friends, Not Allies,” review of Nicholas Thompson, The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2009), in The New York Times Book Review, September 13, 2009, 22.
Review of John W. Young, Twentieth-Century Diplomacy: A Case Study of British Practice, 1963-1976 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), in British Scholar, vol. 2, no. 1 (September 2009): 156-158.
Review of Walter L. Hixon, The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008), in International History Review, vol. 31, no. 3 (September 2009): 630-631.
Review of Jon Roper, ed., The United States and the Legacy of the Vietnam War (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), in Journal of American Studies, vol. 42, no. 3 (December 2008): 604-605.
“The Era of Epic Summitry,” review of David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century (New York: Basic Books, 2007), in Reviews in American History, vol. 36, no. 4 (December 2008): 616-623.
Review of Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World (New York: Basic Books, 2005), in Intelligence and National Security, vol. 23, no. 5 (October 2008): 728-730.
Review of Robert J. Topmiller, The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964-1966 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002), in Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 10, no. 4 (fall 2008): 154-155.
Review of Seth Jacobs, Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America’s War in Vietnam, 1950-1963 (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), in Pacific Historical Review, vol. 77, no. 3 (August 2008): 533-534.
Review of Mark Moyar, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), in The Historian, vol. 70, no. 2 (summer 2008): 406-407.
Review of Michael Creswell, A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006), for H-FRANCE, web list for historians of France, vol. 7, no. 148 (December 2007).
“The Spuntik Effect,” review of Matthew Brzezinski, Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (New York: Times Books, 2007), in The New York Times Book Review, December 2, 2007, 78.
Review of Cathryn Carson and David A. Hollinger, eds., Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections (Berkeley, Calif.: Office for History of Science and Technology, 2005), in Pacific Historical Review, vol. 76, no. 3 (August 2007): 506-507.
Review of Christoph Giebel, Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004), in Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 9, no. 3 (summer 2007): 210-212.
“The Odd Couple,” review of Robert Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (New York: Harper Collins, 2007), in The New York Times Book Review, May 13, 2007, 29.
“Russian Roulette,” review of Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary (New York: Norton, 2006), in The New York Times Book Review, Dec. 17, 2006, 15.
“The Other Cold War,” review essay on Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), in Reviews in American History, vol. 34, no. 3 (September 2006): 385-392.
Review of Gerard J. DeGroot, The Bomb: A Life (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005), and J. Samuel Walker, Prompt & Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, revised edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005), in International Journal (Ottawa), vol. 61, no. 3 (summer 2006): 759-761.
Review of Seth Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), in Journal of American History, vol.92, no. 4 (March 2006): 1495-1496.
Review of Pierre Asselin, A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), and Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco, eds., A Companion to the Vietnam War (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2002), in Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 7, no. 3 (summer 2005): 173-175.
“Cowards or Heroes? Reconsidering Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War,” review of Michael S. Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), for H-PEACE, web list for peace historians, 3 June 2004.
“Hot Wars in Cold War Africa,” review essay on Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), in Reviews in American History, vol. 32, no. 1 (March 2004): 114-121.
Review of Victory in Vietnam: The Officials History of the People’s Army of Vietnam, 1954-1975, translated by Merle Pribbenow (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2002), in Journal of Military History, vol. 67, no. 1 (January 2003): 304-305.
“Brothers in Arms,” review essay on Robert D. Dean, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), in Reviews in American History, vol. 30, no. 4 (December 2002): 671-679.
Review of Bernard W. Poirier, Witness to the End: Cold War Revelations, 1959-1969 (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2000), in Journal of Intelligence and National Security, vol. 17, no. 4 (fall 2002): 214-216.
Review of Ernest R. May, Timothy Naftali, and Philip D. Zelikow, eds., The Presidential Recordings, John F. Kennedy: Volumes 1-3, The Great Crises (New York: Norton, 2002), in Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4 (December 2001): 810-814.
Review of Qiang Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1945-1975 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), in Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 3, no. 3 (fall 2001): 120-122.
“In His Own World,” review of Henry Kissinger, Does American Need a Foreign Policy? Towards a Diplomacy for the 21st Century (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), in Austin-American Statesman, June 10, 2001, H6.
Review of David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2000), in Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2 (June 2001): 381-382.
Review of Tony Smith, Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), for H-DIPLO, web list for diplomatic historians, 30 December 2000.
“The Mystery that Was Ho Chi Minh,” review of William J. Duiker, Ho Chi Minh: A Life (New York: Times Books, 2000), in Austin American-Statesman, Nov. 26, 2000, K6.