Simon Mile
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Mile |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Mile |
| SIGNATURE | MILE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7076-2877 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
We All Fall Down
Using new evidence from Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian archives, a reconstruction of Eastern European diplomacy at the end of the Cold War shows that it was not just the superpowers that shaped events during this pivotal period: the non-Soviet members of the Warsaw Pact also had agency. From 1989 to 1991, these states recognized that the world was changing and that their relationship with the Soviet Union, codified in the Warsaw P…
The Second Cold War
How we periodize history matters, be it for teaching or in research. So where does one draw the line? The beginning or end of a major conflict is common, but wars rarely end with a clean finish, and the human consequences are felt for years and decades after the cessation of hostilities. For historians of the United States, the transition from one presidential administration to another offers a fairly clean break; it entails personnel changes at …
The Problems of Perestroika
The KGB and the rest of the Soviet intelligence and policing apparatus are commonly portrayed as having been among the staunchest of conservative opponents to the reform process in the Soviet Union during the latter half of the 1980s. But while key leaders of the August 1991 effort to oust General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, for example, did come from the security services, this characterization obscures how the KGB rank-and-file responded to an…
The Ambassador's Daughters
In most circles—the readership of Diplomatic History a likely exception—Llewellyn Thompson is not exactly a household name. For a policy-maker of his background, this is something of a surprise and certainly a shortcoming: Thompson served as ambassador to Austria and the Soviet Union, advisor to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and in many more pivotal roles in the United States and abroad. And yet, he remains an obscure figure. Happily, th…
The War Scare That Wasn't
Did the Cold War of the 1980s nearly turn hot? Much has been made of the November 1983 Able Archer 83 command-post exercise, which is often described as having nearly precipitated a nuclear war when paranoid Warsaw Pact policymakers suspected that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was using the exercise to launch a preemptive nuclear strike. This article challenges that narrative, using new evidence from the archives of the former War…
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism
This collection of essays, including the eminent diplomatic historian Melvyn P. Leffler’s first in 1972 up to his contemporary scholarship, is a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Covering everything from the Herbert Hoover administration to the post–September 11 world, Leffler traces the interplay between the forces and impulses of capitalism and democracy through U.S. foreign policy. Typical of Leffler’s work, these essays are deeply rese…
Envisioning Détente
On October 14, 1964, Leonid Brezhnev, Aleksei Kosygin, and Nikolai Podgornii deposed Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Nikita Khrushchev in a palace coup. 1 Unthinkable during Stalin’s regime, this bloodless ouster exemplified the new phase in the Cold War to which Khrushchev himself had contributed. 2 Outside the Soviet Union, the incorporation of West Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio…
The Triumph of Improvisation
James Graham Wilson The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014. 264 pp $29.95 (cloth) ISBN: 978-0-8014-5229-1Few presidents have left as complicated and politically charged a legacy as Ronald Reagan. Partisan pundits have played a preponderant role in shaping Reagan's legacy, some hailing him as a master strategist and others reviling him as a…
European security in Nato’s shadow
Stephanie C Hofmann European security NATO's shadow: Party ideologies and institution building Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 264 pp., $99.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-1 107029095Historians and political scientists have long considered domestic politics an important factor the formulation of foreign policy. Demonstrating the link, however, is frequently confounded by a lack of evidence. While politicians and policy makers are keen to explain…
Among the powers of the Earth
Eliga H Gould Among the powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the making of a new world empire Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. 344 pp $45.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-6740-4608-5Americans have long struggled determine the relationship between international law and US foreign and defence policy. The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and the practice of targeted killings by unmanned aerial vehicles continue arouse international op…
Carving a Diplomatic Niche
Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin's visit to Britain in April 1956 was the first by the new Soviet leadership to a Western bloc country after Josef Stalin's death. It presented British policy-makers with a unique opportunity for insight and discussion. However, British self-deception regarding their scope for independent action as well as excessive focus on events in the Middle East hampered efforts to build a rapport with Khrushchev and Bul…
We All Fall Down
Using new evidence from Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian archives, a reconstruction of Eastern European diplomacy at the end of the Cold War shows that it was not just the superpowers that shaped events during this pivotal period: the non-Soviet members of the Warsaw Pact also had agency. From 1989 to 1991, these states recognized that the world was changing and that their relationship with the Soviet Union, codified in the Warsaw P…
The Problems of Perestroika
The KGB and the rest of the Soviet intelligence and policing apparatus are commonly portrayed as having been among the staunchest of conservative opponents to the reform process in the Soviet Union during the latter half of the 1980s. But while key leaders of the August 1991 effort to oust General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, for example, did come from the security services, this characterization obscures how the KGB rank-and-file responded to an…
The War Scare That Wasn't
Did the Cold War of the 1980s nearly turn hot? Much has been made of the November 1983 Able Archer 83 command-post exercise, which is often described as having nearly precipitated a nuclear war when paranoid Warsaw Pact policymakers suspected that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was using the exercise to launch a preemptive nuclear strike. This article challenges that narrative, using new evidence from the archives of the former War…
Carving a Diplomatic Niche
Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin's visit to Britain in April 1956 was the first by the new Soviet leadership to a Western bloc country after Josef Stalin's death. It presented British policy-makers with a unique opportunity for insight and discussion. However, British self-deception regarding their scope for independent action as well as excessive focus on events in the Middle East hampered efforts to build a rapport with Khrushchev and Bul…
European security in Nato’s shadow
Stephanie C Hofmann European security NATO's shadow: Party ideologies and institution building Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 264 pp., $99.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-1 107029095Historians and political scientists have long considered domestic politics an important factor the formulation of foreign policy. Demonstrating the link, however, is frequently confounded by a lack of evidence. While politicians and policy makers are keen to explain…
Among the powers of the Earth
Eliga H Gould Among the powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the making of a new world empire Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. 344 pp $45.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-6740-4608-5Americans have long struggled determine the relationship between international law and US foreign and defence policy. The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and the practice of targeted killings by unmanned aerial vehicles continue arouse international op…
The Triumph of Improvisation
James Graham Wilson The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014. 264 pp $29.95 (cloth) ISBN: 978-0-8014-5229-1Few presidents have left as complicated and politically charged a legacy as Ronald Reagan. Partisan pundits have played a preponderant role in shaping Reagan's legacy, some hailing him as a master strategist and others reviling him as a…
Envisioning Détente
On October 14, 1964, Leonid Brezhnev, Aleksei Kosygin, and Nikolai Podgornii deposed Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Nikita Khrushchev in a palace coup. 1 Unthinkable during Stalin’s regime, this bloodless ouster exemplified the new phase in the Cold War to which Khrushchev himself had contributed. 2 Outside the Soviet Union, the incorporation of West Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio…
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism
This collection of essays, including the eminent diplomatic historian Melvyn P. Leffler’s first in 1972 up to his contemporary scholarship, is a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Covering everything from the Herbert Hoover administration to the post–September 11 world, Leffler traces the interplay between the forces and impulses of capitalism and democracy through U.S. foreign policy. Typical of Leffler’s work, these essays are deeply rese…
The Ambassador's Daughters
In most circles—the readership of Diplomatic History a likely exception—Llewellyn Thompson is not exactly a household name. For a policy-maker of his background, this is something of a surprise and certainly a shortcoming: Thompson served as ambassador to Austria and the Soviet Union, advisor to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and in many more pivotal roles in the United States and abroad. And yet, he remains an obscure figure. Happily, th…
The War Scare That Wasn't
Did the Cold War of the 1980s nearly turn hot? Much has been made of the November 1983 Able Archer 83 command-post exercise, which is often described as having nearly precipitated a nuclear war when paranoid Warsaw Pact policymakers suspected that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was using the exercise to launch a preemptive nuclear strike. This article challenges that narrative, using new evidence from the archives of the former War…
The Problems of Perestroika
The KGB and the rest of the Soviet intelligence and policing apparatus are commonly portrayed as having been among the staunchest of conservative opponents to the reform process in the Soviet Union during the latter half of the 1980s. But while key leaders of the August 1991 effort to oust General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, for example, did come from the security services, this characterization obscures how the KGB rank-and-file responded to an…
The Second Cold War
How we periodize history matters, be it for teaching or in research. So where does one draw the line? The beginning or end of a major conflict is common, but wars rarely end with a clean finish, and the human consequences are felt for years and decades after the cessation of hostilities. For historians of the United States, the transition from one presidential administration to another offers a fairly clean break; it entails personnel changes at …
We All Fall Down
Using new evidence from Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian archives, a reconstruction of Eastern European diplomacy at the end of the Cold War shows that it was not just the superpowers that shaped events during this pivotal period: the non-Soviet members of the Warsaw Pact also had agency. From 1989 to 1991, these states recognized that the world was changing and that their relationship with the Soviet Union, codified in the Warsaw P…
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