John L Harper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John L Harper |
| GIVEN NAMES | John L |
| FAMILY NAME | Harper |
| SIGNATURE | HARPER J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1865 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
American Isolationisms and the Riddle of Trump Redux
Seeking the Essential Kennan
The latest full-length study of the life of US diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904–2005) attempts to rectify what its author, Professor Frank Costigliola, believes to be the shortcomings of John Lewis Gaddis’s authorised biography, published in 2011. As a treatment of Kennan’s early life and career, of his post-State Department role as a commentator and ‘sage’, and in particular of its subject’s personal life and character, the book is …
Il ‘lodo Moro’
Nixon in China, February 1972
When Richard M. Nixon became president in 1969, US–China relations had been frozen for 20 years. Nixon was well positioned to transform those relations: he enjoyed the confidence of US conservatives, and no one could reasonably accuse him of sympathising with communism. He had developed a realist world view that minimised the importance of ideology and of a state’s domestic system. The time was right for a new approach because China and the Sovie…
Ecology
Pierre Hassner (1933–2018)
Hassner's common sense and scepticism led him to challenge schematic arguments about both the clash of civilisations and the end of history
Cold War in East Asia
Even if the United States and China are not in a global ideological competition, ideas and doctrines have weight
The Kennan Century
John Lewis Gaddis's biography of George Kennan is more successful as a portrayal of Kennan the private person than as a political and intellectual study
In the footsteps of George Orwell
Patrick McCarthy identified himself with George Orwell, from whom he took his notion of ‘political language’ and was loosely inspired by Orwell when he was Tribune correspondent in Italy during the late 1970s. McCarthy's dispatches from Italy contain four ‘Orwellian’ elements: a spare and vivid language, a uniformly critical treatment of the holders of power, sympathy for the marginal classes of society and support for the PCI (Partito dei Comuns…
Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson
July 01 2008 Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. John L. Harper John L. Harper Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John L. Harper Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Journal of Cold War Studies (2008) 10 (3): 156–158. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2008.10.3.156 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twit…
Essentials of Ecology
The authors present introductory ecology in an accessible, state-of-the-art format designed to cultivate the novice student's understanding of, and fascination with, the natural world
Anatomy of a habit
The manner in which and the reasons for which the United States went to war against Iraq in 2003 do not represent a radical departure from the past. American history shows that the United States has had a strong propensity to become involved in unnecessary wars. These wars share some common characteristics: they were justified in the name of America's presumed historical mission; they were entered into on the basis of false premises; a relatively…
Acheson and Empire
This book makes a couple of good points, along with a number of unconvincing ones. The first good point is that Dean Acheson was not a textbook “realist,” but a man of strong emotional attachments. He saw himself as a product of Anglo-American civilization and looked with nostalgia on the relatively prosperous and stable world of the Victorian era. Like many of his generation he believed that U.S. policy should aim to reconstruct an international…
The Dream of Democratic Peace
A Bewildered Nation
Journal Article Una nazione alio sbando: Larmistizio italiano del settembre 1943 (A bewildered nation: The Italian armistice of September 1943). By Elena AgaRossi. (Bologna: Mulino, 1993. 168 pp. Paper, Lit 15,000, ISBN 88-15-04136-2.) In Italian Get access John L. Harper John L. Harper Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Kissinger and Kennan
Assist and Befriend or Direct and Control
British Interments At Lancaster Moor
Cold War in East Asia
Even if the United States and China are not in a global ideological competition, ideas and doctrines have weight
Acheson and Empire
This book makes a couple of good points, along with a number of unconvincing ones. The first good point is that Dean Acheson was not a textbook “realist,” but a man of strong emotional attachments. He saw himself as a product of Anglo-American civilization and looked with nostalgia on the relatively prosperous and stable world of the Victorian era. Like many of his generation he believed that U.S. policy should aim to reconstruct an international…
British Interments At Lancaster Moor
Assist and Befriend or Direct and Control
Kissinger and Kennan
A Bewildered Nation
Journal Article Una nazione alio sbando: Larmistizio italiano del settembre 1943 (A bewildered nation: The Italian armistice of September 1943). By Elena AgaRossi. (Bologna: Mulino, 1993. 168 pp. Paper, Lit 15,000, ISBN 88-15-04136-2.) In Italian Get access John L. Harper John L. Harper Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
The Dream of Democratic Peace
Acheson and Empire
This book makes a couple of good points, along with a number of unconvincing ones. The first good point is that Dean Acheson was not a textbook “realist,” but a man of strong emotional attachments. He saw himself as a product of Anglo-American civilization and looked with nostalgia on the relatively prosperous and stable world of the Victorian era. Like many of his generation he believed that U.S. policy should aim to reconstruct an international…
Anatomy of a habit
The manner in which and the reasons for which the United States went to war against Iraq in 2003 do not represent a radical departure from the past. American history shows that the United States has had a strong propensity to become involved in unnecessary wars. These wars share some common characteristics: they were justified in the name of America's presumed historical mission; they were entered into on the basis of false premises; a relatively…
Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson
July 01 2008 Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. John L. Harper John L. Harper Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John L. Harper Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Journal of Cold War Studies (2008) 10 (3): 156–158. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2008.10.3.156 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twit…
Essentials of Ecology
The authors present introductory ecology in an accessible, state-of-the-art format designed to cultivate the novice student's understanding of, and fascination with, the natural world
In the footsteps of George Orwell
Patrick McCarthy identified himself with George Orwell, from whom he took his notion of ‘political language’ and was loosely inspired by Orwell when he was Tribune correspondent in Italy during the late 1970s. McCarthy's dispatches from Italy contain four ‘Orwellian’ elements: a spare and vivid language, a uniformly critical treatment of the holders of power, sympathy for the marginal classes of society and support for the PCI (Partito dei Comuns…
The Kennan Century
John Lewis Gaddis's biography of George Kennan is more successful as a portrayal of Kennan the private person than as a political and intellectual study
Cold War in East Asia
Even if the United States and China are not in a global ideological competition, ideas and doctrines have weight
Pierre Hassner (1933–2018)
Hassner's common sense and scepticism led him to challenge schematic arguments about both the clash of civilisations and the end of history
Ecology
Il ‘lodo Moro’
Nixon in China, February 1972
When Richard M. Nixon became president in 1969, US–China relations had been frozen for 20 years. Nixon was well positioned to transform those relations: he enjoyed the confidence of US conservatives, and no one could reasonably accuse him of sympathising with communism. He had developed a realist world view that minimised the importance of ideology and of a state’s domestic system. The time was right for a new approach because China and the Sovie…
Seeking the Essential Kennan
The latest full-length study of the life of US diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904–2005) attempts to rectify what its author, Professor Frank Costigliola, believes to be the shortcomings of John Lewis Gaddis’s authorised biography, published in 2011. As a treatment of Kennan’s early life and career, of his post-State Department role as a commentator and ‘sage’, and in particular of its subject’s personal life and character, the book is …
American Isolationisms and the Riddle of Trump Redux
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