Robert B Rakove
Biographic Data
| ID | 2525339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert B Rakove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert B |
| FAMILY NAME | Rakove |
| SIGNATURE | RAKOVE R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between Neutrality and Solidarity
Aspiration and Folly
This paper chronicles the improbable saga of the Inland Exploration Company and its abortive oil concession within Afghanistan. Led by former US diplomat Charles Calmer Hart and geologist Frederick Gardner Clapp and backed by a variety of domestic financiers, Inland managed to obtain a national concession within the Afghan kingdom in 1936. This episode represented the peak of Kabul's interwar effort to engage the United States as a strategic coun…
Ideology’s iron embrace, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 This contrasts notably with the discussion in Weeks (Citation1992).2 One may quibble a bit. The AAF shift to urban bombing occurred after D-Day, preceded by a focus on the Third Reich’s oil infrastructure and, counterintuitively, the German fighter force. The general inaccuracy of bombing, noted by Bessner, did ensure that AAF bombs often intended for industri…
Mark Atwood Lawrence. The End of Ambition
Journal Article Mark Atwood Lawrence. The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era. Get access Mark Atwood Lawrence. The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 386. Cloth $35.00. Robert Rakove Robert Rakove Stanford University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns
Journal Article Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America Get access Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America. By Theresa Keeley. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xiv, 334 pp. $49.95.) Robert Rakove Robert Rakove Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
The Price of Aid
David C. Engerman's remarkable contribution to the study of the Cold War draws readers deep into the trenches of one of the conflict's most crucial political battlegrounds. The Price of Aid provides a detailed account of dueling U.S. and Soviet efforts to shape the political and economic future of India, but, critically, it also elucidates the efforts of numerous Indian actors to employ superpower aid to their own purposes. Numerous close studies…
Daniel J. Sargent. A Superpower Transformed
“A superpower is different,” Daniel J. Sargent reminds us at the beginning of his magnificent history of U.S. foreign relations in the 1970s. “Unlike most other international actors, it operates on the world scale and even presumes responsibility for the international system as a whole” (1). And yet, in A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s, Sargent writes eloquently, comprehensively, and persuasively a…
The Rise and Fall of Non-Aligned Mediation, 1961–6
From its inception, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) considered itself to be a moderating force in the cold war and in the post-colonial world. In September 1961, in the wake of the Belgrade Conference and at the height of the Berlin crisis, it dispatched emergency missions to Washington and Moscow, with Sukarno and Keita journeying to Washington and Nehru and Nkrumah flying to Moscow. Yet, by the decade's end, the movement had moved away from that…
Isaac & Isaiah
Two roads to Belgrade
In 1961, at the height of the Berlin crisis, the United States and Great Britain simultaneously struggled to adopt effective policies toward the first meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade. While the John F. Kennedy administration initially adopted a policy of standoffishness toward the conference, the government of Harold Macmillan engaged in a campaign of quietly encouraging moderate attendance. Moderate British expectations led to so…
Gordian knot
In April 1965, US President Lyndon Johnson received an extraordinary personal letter from Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere. “I know this is not a diplomatic letter,” the Tanzanian lamented, “and
The Price of Aid
David C. Engerman's remarkable contribution to the study of the Cold War draws readers deep into the trenches of one of the conflict's most crucial political battlegrounds. The Price of Aid provides a detailed account of dueling U.S. and Soviet efforts to shape the political and economic future of India, but, critically, it also elucidates the efforts of numerous Indian actors to employ superpower aid to their own purposes. Numerous close studies…
The Rise and Fall of Non-Aligned Mediation, 1961–6
From its inception, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) considered itself to be a moderating force in the cold war and in the post-colonial world. In September 1961, in the wake of the Belgrade Conference and at the height of the Berlin crisis, it dispatched emergency missions to Washington and Moscow, with Sukarno and Keita journeying to Washington and Nehru and Nkrumah flying to Moscow. Yet, by the decade's end, the movement had moved away from that…
Gordian knot
In April 1965, US President Lyndon Johnson received an extraordinary personal letter from Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere. “I know this is not a diplomatic letter,” the Tanzanian lamented, “and
Two roads to Belgrade
In 1961, at the height of the Berlin crisis, the United States and Great Britain simultaneously struggled to adopt effective policies toward the first meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade. While the John F. Kennedy administration initially adopted a policy of standoffishness toward the conference, the government of Harold Macmillan engaged in a campaign of quietly encouraging moderate attendance. Moderate British expectations led to so…
The Rise and Fall of Non-Aligned Mediation, 1961–6
From its inception, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) considered itself to be a moderating force in the cold war and in the post-colonial world. In September 1961, in the wake of the Belgrade Conference and at the height of the Berlin crisis, it dispatched emergency missions to Washington and Moscow, with Sukarno and Keita journeying to Washington and Nehru and Nkrumah flying to Moscow. Yet, by the decade's end, the movement had moved away from that…
Isaac & Isaiah
Daniel J. Sargent. A Superpower Transformed
“A superpower is different,” Daniel J. Sargent reminds us at the beginning of his magnificent history of U.S. foreign relations in the 1970s. “Unlike most other international actors, it operates on the world scale and even presumes responsibility for the international system as a whole” (1). And yet, in A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s, Sargent writes eloquently, comprehensively, and persuasively a…
The Price of Aid
David C. Engerman's remarkable contribution to the study of the Cold War draws readers deep into the trenches of one of the conflict's most crucial political battlegrounds. The Price of Aid provides a detailed account of dueling U.S. and Soviet efforts to shape the political and economic future of India, but, critically, it also elucidates the efforts of numerous Indian actors to employ superpower aid to their own purposes. Numerous close studies…
Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns
Journal Article Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America Get access Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America. By Theresa Keeley. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xiv, 334 pp. $49.95.) Robert Rakove Robert Rakove Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Ideology’s iron embrace, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 This contrasts notably with the discussion in Weeks (Citation1992).2 One may quibble a bit. The AAF shift to urban bombing occurred after D-Day, preceded by a focus on the Third Reich’s oil infrastructure and, counterintuitively, the German fighter force. The general inaccuracy of bombing, noted by Bessner, did ensure that AAF bombs often intended for industri…
Mark Atwood Lawrence. The End of Ambition
Journal Article Mark Atwood Lawrence. The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era. Get access Mark Atwood Lawrence. The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 386. Cloth $35.00. Robert Rakove Robert Rakove Stanford University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Between Neutrality and Solidarity
Aspiration and Folly
This paper chronicles the improbable saga of the Inland Exploration Company and its abortive oil concession within Afghanistan. Led by former US diplomat Charles Calmer Hart and geologist Frederick Gardner Clapp and backed by a variety of domestic financiers, Inland managed to obtain a national concession within the Afghan kingdom in 1936. This episode represented the peak of Kabul's interwar effort to engage the United States as a strategic coun…
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