James G. Hershberg

Former Public Policy Scholar

Professional Affiliation

Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University

Expert Bio

 

 

Subjects

 

 

Cold War History

 

Experience

Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University; former director of the Cold War International History Project and editor of the CWIHP Book Series (Stanford University Press and Wilson Center Press); author of Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace (Stanford UP/Wilson, 2012); James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age (Knopf, 1993; Stanford UP, 1995); and a forthcoming study of Brazil, Cuba, and the Cold War.

Wilson Center Project

New evidence on the secret diplomacy of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War