Barbara Keys
Biographic Data
| ID | 994710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Keys |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Keys |
| SIGNATURE | KEYS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8026-4932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Delegated Diplomacy
Fear, Power, and Hubris”
Journal Article "Fear, Power, and Hubris": Why the United States Invaded Iraq Get access Melvyn P. Leffler. Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 368 pp. $27.95 (hardcover). Barbara Keys Barbara Keys Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8026-4932 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 48, Iss…
How the Helsinki Accords Breached the Iron Curtain
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev once compared negotiations to a bottle of wine: just as it is impossible to predict how wine will taste from looking at the bottle, he said, so it is impossible to judge what negotiations will be like until the process is underway (98). The comparison suits the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). Its outcome, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, emerged with unexpected provisions that proved to be a far …
The Diplomat’s Two Minds
Two additions to the diplomatic lexicon originated during 1993 talks in Washington between Israelis and Jordanians: couch diplomacy and coffee diplomacy. The George H. W. Bush administration, brokering the talks, had included Palestinians as part of the Jordanian delegation, but because Palestinians insisted that talks pertaining to them should be conducted solely by them, the first stage of the talks was held in the lobby, a neutral place where …
Personal and Political Emotions in the Mind of the Diplomat
Despite growing research on the role of emotions in international relations, little work has analyzed how diplomats and decision‐makers themselves make sense of feelings generated by relationships that have both individual and state‐level implications. Do diplomats consciously experience feelings on behalf of the state? If so, how? How might individual embodied emotions affect how diplomats carry out their roles during negotiations? In the first …
Nixon/Kissinger and Brezhnev
In June 1973, Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Washington for his second summit meeting with President Richard Nixon. Knowing of the Soviet leader’s fondness for luxury automobiles, Nixon gave him a shiny Lincoln Continental. Brezhnev was delighted with the present and insisted on taking a spin around Camp David, speeding through turns while the president nervously asked him to slow down. Later, when they flew on Air Force One to Nixon’s summer home in…
The Telephone and Its Uses in 1980s U.S. Activism
Claims that today’s digital technologies are unprecedented in their effect on society are founded on a weak understanding of the roles played by pre-digital technologies. Although the landline phone was the most ubiquitous American technology of the twentieth century, and an important influence on social and political life, it has received little attention in most fields of scholarship. But widespread use of the landline telephone is key to expla…
Trust, but Verify
President Ronald Reagan's favored phrase, “trust, but verify,” calls to mind the Fowler's Modern English Usage definition of slogans as “those catchwords with which in the modern world politicians, ideologists, and advertisers try to excite our emotions and atrophy our minds.” On its face a vacuous, oxymoronic appeal, “trust, but verify” became a potent rhetorical tool in the hands of a politician with an uncanny ability to elicit public trust. S…
Political Protection
In the aftermath of a widespread boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics that challenged the legitimacy of the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) began a vigorous but unsuccessful effort, lasting from 1982 to 1985, to convince the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution committing governments not to boycott the Games. Drawing on archives in Switzerland, the UK, Ireland, and Canada, this article brings to light this forgotten bu…
A Tremendous Thing
The League of Nations and the Internationalization of Imperialism
After the First World War, the Allies, self-servingly declaring the Germans and the Turks to have forfeited the “civilizational standing” required of imperial powers, stripped the losers of their colonies. But thanks to President Woodrow Wilson’s idealistic vision of a peace without land grabs, those colonies were not seized outright. The compromise solution brokered by the British parcelled them out to “civilized” overseers, who were in turn ove…
Harnessing Human Rights to the Olympic Games
In 1993 Human Rights Watch, one of the two most influential human rights organizations in the world, launched a major campaign to derail Beijing's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games. This article situates this highly publicized campaign in the context of Sino–US relations, the end of the Cold War, and the ‘victory’ of human rights as a global moral lingua franca. It argues that Human Rights Watch's decision to oppose Beijing's bid stemmed from it…
Emotional Diplomacy
The study of emotion in global affairs is a thriving subfield in international relations. But states do not experience emotion, so how does emotion influence state-to-state relations? Some scholars point to the ways emotion in the public sphere influences policy makers. Others argue that emotion felt by policy makers shapes perceptions and decision making. In his innovative study the political scientist Todd H. Hall suggests that emotion matters …
William Michael Schmidli. The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere
Scholars interested in human rights diplomacy will find much of value in William Michael Schmidli's engaging account of the human rights dimension of U.S. president Jimmy Carter's policy toward Argentina. As Schmidli rightly notes, relations with Argentina's brutal military dictatorship offered a key test of Carter's novel approach to foreign policy. Drawing on interviews and rich research in government archives and personal papers, including rec…
Human Rights
This chapter analyzes the status and conception of human rights during the Cold War. It suggests that attempts to define, codify, and protect human rights during the Cold War consisted of a series of discontinuities, intersections, and appropriations in which the area of contestation was the scope and content of the term itself. The chapter also discusses how the Cold War influenced different human rights projects, and explains how the eagerness …
Globalizing Sport
Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the 1930s. Focusing on the U.S., Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympics and the World Cup from small-scale events to the expensive, political, global extravaganzas of today.
Senses and Emotions in the History of Sport
Like most historians, sport historians have generally emphasized the visual and cognitive dimensions of human experience while neglecting the sensorial and the emotional. This essay suggests that the rapid expansion and the growing sophistication of historical study of senses and emotions have created exciting opportunities for sport history. More systematic attention to the role of senses and emotions in shaping perceptions of and meanings deriv…
Henry Kissinger
Journal Article Henry Kissinger: The Emotional Statesman Get access Barbara Keys Barbara Keys Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 35, Issue 4, September 2011, Pages 587–609, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.00968.x Published: 26 July 2011
The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games
Book Review| July 01 2011 The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism. Edited by Susan Brownell. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxvii + 471 pp. Graphs, photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $55 (cloth). Barbara Keys Barbara Keys University of Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Googl…
Congress, Kissinger, and the Origins of Human Rights Diplomacy
Journal Article Congress, Kissinger, and the Origins of Human Rights Diplomacy Get access Barbara Keys Barbara Keys Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 34, Issue 5, November 2010, Pages 823–851, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2010.00897.x Published: 29 September 2010
An African‐American Worker in Stalin's Soviet Union
1Robert Nathaniel Robinson was a twenty‐three‐year‐old toolmaker in Detroit when he decided, like many thousands of Americans and Europeans in the early 1930s, to take a job in the booming industri
The Body as a Political Space
Strategies of persuasion used by the Nazi and Stalinist dictatorships to shape new subjects were not limited to those well-known forms—film, literature, architecture, political posters—that aimed directly at the mind. These regimes also targeted the body as a means of reaching the mind, attempting to use physical education to enforce patterns of thinking and to inculcate psychological characteristics that promoted the state's agenda. This was an …
The Greatest Fight of Our Generation
Journal Article The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling. By Lewis A. Erenberg. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 274 pp. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-19-531999-6.) Get access Barbara Keys Barbara Keys University of MelbourneParkville, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 271–272, https://doi.org/10.2307/27694…
Total Cold War
"Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad, by Kenneth Osgood." Canadian Journal of History, 43(1), pp. 215–216
Modernization from the Other Shore
"Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development, by David C. Engerman." Canadian Journal of History, 40(1), pp. 137–138
Personal and Political Emotions in the Mind of the Diplomat
Despite growing research on the role of emotions in international relations, little work has analyzed how diplomats and decision‐makers themselves make sense of feelings generated by relationships that have both individual and state‐level implications. Do diplomats consciously experience feelings on behalf of the state? If so, how? How might individual embodied emotions affect how diplomats carry out their roles during negotiations? In the first …
Soviet Sport and Transnational Mass Culture in the 1930s
As an international system of competitive, achievement-oriented sport developed into one of the interwar period's most potent carriers of transnational mass culture, the Soviet Union initially chose not to participate. Ideologically hostile toward capitalist internationalism and suspicious of international cultural influences, the Soviet regime instead attempted to create an alternative international system of `proletarian sport' that eschewed re…
Emotional Diplomacy
The study of emotion in global affairs is a thriving subfield in international relations. But states do not experience emotion, so how does emotion influence state-to-state relations? Some scholars point to the ways emotion in the public sphere influences policy makers. Others argue that emotion felt by policy makers shapes perceptions and decision making. In his innovative study the political scientist Todd H. Hall suggests that emotion matters …
The Body as a Political Space
Strategies of persuasion used by the Nazi and Stalinist dictatorships to shape new subjects were not limited to those well-known forms—film, literature, architecture, political posters—that aimed directly at the mind. These regimes also targeted the body as a means of reaching the mind, attempting to use physical education to enforce patterns of thinking and to inculcate psychological characteristics that promoted the state's agenda. This was an …
Senses and Emotions in the History of Sport
Like most historians, sport historians have generally emphasized the visual and cognitive dimensions of human experience while neglecting the sensorial and the emotional. This essay suggests that the rapid expansion and the growing sophistication of historical study of senses and emotions have created exciting opportunities for sport history. More systematic attention to the role of senses and emotions in shaping perceptions of and meanings deriv…
The Telephone and Its Uses in 1980s U.S. Activism
Claims that today’s digital technologies are unprecedented in their effect on society are founded on a weak understanding of the roles played by pre-digital technologies. Although the landline phone was the most ubiquitous American technology of the twentieth century, and an important influence on social and political life, it has received little attention in most fields of scholarship. But widespread use of the landline telephone is key to expla…
Political Protection
In the aftermath of a widespread boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics that challenged the legitimacy of the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) began a vigorous but unsuccessful effort, lasting from 1982 to 1985, to convince the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution committing governments not to boycott the Games. Drawing on archives in Switzerland, the UK, Ireland, and Canada, this article brings to light this forgotten bu…
Harnessing Human Rights to the Olympic Games
In 1993 Human Rights Watch, one of the two most influential human rights organizations in the world, launched a major campaign to derail Beijing's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games. This article situates this highly publicized campaign in the context of Sino–US relations, the end of the Cold War, and the ‘victory’ of human rights as a global moral lingua franca. It argues that Human Rights Watch's decision to oppose Beijing's bid stemmed from it…
The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games
Book Review| July 01 2011 The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism. Edited by Susan Brownell. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxvii + 471 pp. Graphs, photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $55 (cloth). Barbara Keys Barbara Keys University of Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Googl…
Soviet Sport and Transnational Mass Culture in the 1930s
As an international system of competitive, achievement-oriented sport developed into one of the interwar period's most potent carriers of transnational mass culture, the Soviet Union initially chose not to participate. Ideologically hostile toward capitalist internationalism and suspicious of international cultural influences, the Soviet regime instead attempted to create an alternative international system of `proletarian sport' that eschewed re…
Spreading Peace, Democracy, and Coca-ColaR
Journal Article Spreading Peace, Democracy, and Coca-Cola®: Sport and American Cultural Expansion in the 1930s Get access Barbara Keys Barbara Keys Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 28, Issue 2, April 2004, Pages 165–196, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2004.00405.x Published: 05 July 2006
Modernization from the Other Shore
"Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development, by David C. Engerman." Canadian Journal of History, 40(1), pp. 137–138
Total Cold War
"Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad, by Kenneth Osgood." Canadian Journal of History, 43(1), pp. 215–216
An African‐American Worker in Stalin's Soviet Union
1Robert Nathaniel Robinson was a twenty‐three‐year‐old toolmaker in Detroit when he decided, like many thousands of Americans and Europeans in the early 1930s, to take a job in the booming industri
The Body as a Political Space
Strategies of persuasion used by the Nazi and Stalinist dictatorships to shape new subjects were not limited to those well-known forms—film, literature, architecture, political posters—that aimed directly at the mind. These regimes also targeted the body as a means of reaching the mind, attempting to use physical education to enforce patterns of thinking and to inculcate psychological characteristics that promoted the state's agenda. This was an …
The Greatest Fight of Our Generation
Journal Article The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling. By Lewis A. Erenberg. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 274 pp. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-19-531999-6.) Get access Barbara Keys Barbara Keys University of MelbourneParkville, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 271–272, https://doi.org/10.2307/27694…
Congress, Kissinger, and the Origins of Human Rights Diplomacy
Journal Article Congress, Kissinger, and the Origins of Human Rights Diplomacy Get access Barbara Keys Barbara Keys Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 34, Issue 5, November 2010, Pages 823–851, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2010.00897.x Published: 29 September 2010
Henry Kissinger
Journal Article Henry Kissinger: The Emotional Statesman Get access Barbara Keys Barbara Keys Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 35, Issue 4, September 2011, Pages 587–609, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.00968.x Published: 26 July 2011
The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games
Book Review| July 01 2011 The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism. Edited by Susan Brownell. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxvii + 471 pp. Graphs, photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $55 (cloth). Barbara Keys Barbara Keys University of Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Googl…
Human Rights
This chapter analyzes the status and conception of human rights during the Cold War. It suggests that attempts to define, codify, and protect human rights during the Cold War consisted of a series of discontinuities, intersections, and appropriations in which the area of contestation was the scope and content of the term itself. The chapter also discusses how the Cold War influenced different human rights projects, and explains how the eagerness …
Globalizing Sport
Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the 1930s. Focusing on the U.S., Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympics and the World Cup from small-scale events to the expensive, political, global extravaganzas of today.
Senses and Emotions in the History of Sport
Like most historians, sport historians have generally emphasized the visual and cognitive dimensions of human experience while neglecting the sensorial and the emotional. This essay suggests that the rapid expansion and the growing sophistication of historical study of senses and emotions have created exciting opportunities for sport history. More systematic attention to the role of senses and emotions in shaping perceptions of and meanings deriv…
William Michael Schmidli. The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere
Scholars interested in human rights diplomacy will find much of value in William Michael Schmidli's engaging account of the human rights dimension of U.S. president Jimmy Carter's policy toward Argentina. As Schmidli rightly notes, relations with Argentina's brutal military dictatorship offered a key test of Carter's novel approach to foreign policy. Drawing on interviews and rich research in government archives and personal papers, including rec…
The League of Nations and the Internationalization of Imperialism
After the First World War, the Allies, self-servingly declaring the Germans and the Turks to have forfeited the “civilizational standing” required of imperial powers, stripped the losers of their colonies. But thanks to President Woodrow Wilson’s idealistic vision of a peace without land grabs, those colonies were not seized outright. The compromise solution brokered by the British parcelled them out to “civilized” overseers, who were in turn ove…
Harnessing Human Rights to the Olympic Games
In 1993 Human Rights Watch, one of the two most influential human rights organizations in the world, launched a major campaign to derail Beijing's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games. This article situates this highly publicized campaign in the context of Sino–US relations, the end of the Cold War, and the ‘victory’ of human rights as a global moral lingua franca. It argues that Human Rights Watch's decision to oppose Beijing's bid stemmed from it…
Emotional Diplomacy
The study of emotion in global affairs is a thriving subfield in international relations. But states do not experience emotion, so how does emotion influence state-to-state relations? Some scholars point to the ways emotion in the public sphere influences policy makers. Others argue that emotion felt by policy makers shapes perceptions and decision making. In his innovative study the political scientist Todd H. Hall suggests that emotion matters …
Political Protection
In the aftermath of a widespread boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics that challenged the legitimacy of the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) began a vigorous but unsuccessful effort, lasting from 1982 to 1985, to convince the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution committing governments not to boycott the Games. Drawing on archives in Switzerland, the UK, Ireland, and Canada, this article brings to light this forgotten bu…
A Tremendous Thing
Nixon/Kissinger and Brezhnev
In June 1973, Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Washington for his second summit meeting with President Richard Nixon. Knowing of the Soviet leader’s fondness for luxury automobiles, Nixon gave him a shiny Lincoln Continental. Brezhnev was delighted with the present and insisted on taking a spin around Camp David, speeding through turns while the president nervously asked him to slow down. Later, when they flew on Air Force One to Nixon’s summer home in…
The Telephone and Its Uses in 1980s U.S. Activism
Claims that today’s digital technologies are unprecedented in their effect on society are founded on a weak understanding of the roles played by pre-digital technologies. Although the landline phone was the most ubiquitous American technology of the twentieth century, and an important influence on social and political life, it has received little attention in most fields of scholarship. But widespread use of the landline telephone is key to expla…
Trust, but Verify
President Ronald Reagan's favored phrase, “trust, but verify,” calls to mind the Fowler's Modern English Usage definition of slogans as “those catchwords with which in the modern world politicians, ideologists, and advertisers try to excite our emotions and atrophy our minds.” On its face a vacuous, oxymoronic appeal, “trust, but verify” became a potent rhetorical tool in the hands of a politician with an uncanny ability to elicit public trust. S…
The Diplomat’s Two Minds
Two additions to the diplomatic lexicon originated during 1993 talks in Washington between Israelis and Jordanians: couch diplomacy and coffee diplomacy. The George H. W. Bush administration, brokering the talks, had included Palestinians as part of the Jordanian delegation, but because Palestinians insisted that talks pertaining to them should be conducted solely by them, the first stage of the talks was held in the lobby, a neutral place where …
Personal and Political Emotions in the Mind of the Diplomat
Despite growing research on the role of emotions in international relations, little work has analyzed how diplomats and decision‐makers themselves make sense of feelings generated by relationships that have both individual and state‐level implications. Do diplomats consciously experience feelings on behalf of the state? If so, how? How might individual embodied emotions affect how diplomats carry out their roles during negotiations? In the first …
How the Helsinki Accords Breached the Iron Curtain
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev once compared negotiations to a bottle of wine: just as it is impossible to predict how wine will taste from looking at the bottle, he said, so it is impossible to judge what negotiations will be like until the process is underway (98). The comparison suits the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). Its outcome, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, emerged with unexpected provisions that proved to be a far …
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