Associate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) Assistant to Professor Eckart Conze, Department of Modern History, Philipps University of Marburg
Research Fellow, WIGH WCFIA Graduate Student Associate PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Steven Press holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University (2014). He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University. In...
The United States is the most powerful player on the international scene today, and is unlikely to relinquish that position any time soon. Understanding how and why this condition arose, and what it means for world affairs today, is our concern in this course. The emphasis is on U.S. policymaking over the past century, with due attention to the international and domestic political context in which decisions were made. Issues to be explored include the tension between isolationism and interventionism and between unilateralism and multilateralism; the emergence of the U.S. as a...
WIGH Graduate Research Fellow, 2014 PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Research Interests: International and diplomatic history; insurgency and intervention; international institutions; US foreign policy during the Cold...