Diplomatic History Publications
China Orders the World: Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy
Jan 31, 2012This volume examines a series of complex debates surrounding the role of China's historical ideals in shaping its foreign policy. Presenting and analyzing the works of key Chinese philosophers and prominent international relations theorists, the contributors—prestigious scholars from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France—examine how an idealized version of China's imperial past now inspires a new generation of Chinese scholars and policymakers and their plans for China's future. more
e-Dossier No. 28 - Vietnam Trained Commando Forces in Southeast Asia and Latin America
Jan 03, 2012CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of two new documents to its online Digital Archive. The two documents released today provide new evidence of Vietnam’s covert training of revolutionary commando forces in Southeast Asia and Latin America. more
The Rise of Kim Jong Il - Evidence from East German Archives
Dec 21, 2011NKIDP e-Dossier No. 4, "The Rise of Kim Jong Il - Evidence from East German Archives," was released in the wake of Kim Jong Il's death and features four East German documents which reveal that the late North Korean leader had been groomed from as early as 1974 to take over the helm of the North Korean state. more
Sport and Politics on the Korean Peninsula - North Korea and the 1988 Seoul Olympics
Dec 12, 2011NKIDP e-Dossier No. 3, "Sport and Politics on the Korean Peninsula - North Korea and the 1988 Seoul Olympics," includes sixty documents on North Korea’s efforts to co-host the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Featuring an introduction by Sergey Radchenko, the documents offer an unprecedented window into North Korea's negotiating strategies and shed new light on inter-Korean relations and the DPRK’s foreign relations at the end of the Cold War. more
The Nixon Administration and the Indian Nuclear Program, 1972-1974
Dec 05, 2011U.S. Post-Mortem on 1974 Indian Test Criticized Intelligence Community Performance for "Waffling Judgments" and Not Following Up Leads more
North Korean Pilots in the Skies over Vietnam
Dec 01, 2011NKIDP e-Dossier No. 2, "North Korean Pilots in the Skies over Vietnam," is introduced Merle Pribbenow, a former CIA Vietnamese language specialist, and features two translated Vietnamese documents which provide details on North Korea's assistance to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. more
e-Dossier No. 27 - Molotov's Proposal that the USSR Join NATO, March 1954
Nov 21, 2011CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new document to its online Digital Archive. The document released today is a 1954 proposal by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, in which he proposed that the USSR Join NATO. more
The Elephant in the Room: The Soviet Union and India’s Nuclear Program, 1967-1989
Nov 17, 2011NPIHP Working Paper #1. If India had presented the world with a nuclear fait accompli, the eminent Indian journalist Amalendu Das Gupta mused in 1987, “the Americans and their allies would have been angry; the Russians would have been unhappy." more
e-Dossier No. 26 - Soviet Policy in Indonesia during the “Liberal Democracy” Period, 1950-1959
Nov 08, 2011CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of new documents to its online Digital Archive. The nine documents released today – reports by the Soviet ambassadors to Indonesia – provide new archival evidence of Soviet policy and activities in Southeast Asia in the 1950s. more
