Vojtech Mastny

1920 N. Ode Street
Arlington, Virginia 22209
USA
[mst3696@aol.com->mst3696@aol.com]

Professeur d’histoire des relations internationales
Coordinator
Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security
Center for Security Studies
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich (since 1999)
[www.php.isn.ethz.ch/->www.php.isn.ethz.ch/ ]
Research Associate
Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies

——————Academic Positions since 1990- National Security Archive at the George Washington University, Washington, DC (Senior Fellow, 1999-2007)- Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center (Professor of International Relations, Director of Research Institute, 1990-95)
Awards, Fellowships, Grants since 1996
– National Endowment for the Humanities research grant (2007-2009)- Franti_ek Palack_ Honorary Medal for Merit in the Historical Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2007)- Doctorate honoris causa in the social sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium (2006)- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, Senior Research Scholar (1999-2005), Fellow (1997-98)- George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association (1997)- Manfred Wörner Inaugural Fellow, NATO (1996-98)- Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Essen, (1996-98)- International Research and Exchanges Board, Washington, DC (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2007).
PublicationsBooks- The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996; paperback 1997). 1997 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association.
– Italian edition , Il dittatore insicuro: Stalin e la guerra fredda (Milan: Corbaccio, 1998); paperback (Milan: Tascabili degli Editori Associati, 2003).
– Japanese edition , Reisen toha nann dattanoka: Sengoseijshi to Stalin [What Was the Cold War: The Stalin Years] (Tokyo: Kashiwashobo, 2000).
– Czech edition , Studená válka a sov_tsk_ pocit nejistoty, 1947-53: Stalinova léta (Prague: Aurora, 2001).
– Chinese edition , ________ _______ Si Dalin Shiqi de Lengzhan yu Sulian de Anquan Guan [Stalin’s Cold War and the Idea of Security of the Soviet Union] (Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2002).
– Polish edition , Stalin i zimna wojna: Sowieckie poczucie zagro_enia (Warsaw: Trio, 2006).- The Czechs under Nazi Rule: The Failure of National Resistance, 1939-1942 (New York and London: Columbia Univer¬sity Press, 1971). Clarke F. Ansley Award. Czech edition, Protektorát a osud _eského odboje (Prague: Eurolex Bohemia, 2003).- Reassuring NATO: Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Western Alliance (Oslo: Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, 1997).- The Helsinki Process and the Reintegration of Europe, 1986-1991: Analysis and Documentation (New York: New York University Press, 1992).- Russia’s Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism 1941-45 (New York: Columbia Univer¬sity Press, 1979; paperback 1980). Selection of the Library of Political and International Affairs. German edition, Moskaus Weg zum Kalten Krieg (Munich: Oldenbourg, 1980).Books Edited (since 2005)
– (With Andreas Wenger and Christian Nuenlist), Origins of the European Security System: – The Helsinki Process Revisited, 1965-75 (London: Routledge, 2008).- (With Sven G. Holtsmark and Andreas Wenger), War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War: Threat Perceptions in the East and West (London: Routledge, 2006)- (With Malcolm Byrne), A Cardboard Castle? An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991 (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2005).- (With Sergio Ortino and Mitja _agar), The Changing Faces of Federalism: Institutional Reconfiguration in Europe from East to West (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005).Articles (since 2006)
– « Eastern Europe and the Early Prospects for EC/EU and NATO Membership, » Cold War History, 9, no. 2 (May 2009): 203-221.- « How Able Was ‘Able Archer’? Nuclear Trigger and Intelligence in Perspective, » Journal of Cold War Studies 11, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 108-23- « For the Soul of a Historian: A Roundtable Discussion of Melvyn Leffler’s For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, » Passport 39, 2. (September 2008): 29-30- « ‘Able Archer’: An der Schwelle zum Atomkrieg? » in Krisen im Kalten Krieg, ed, Bernd Greiner, Christian Th. Müller. and Dierk Walter (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2008), pp. 505-22.- « The Warsaw Pact: An Alliance in Search of a Purpose, » in NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts, ed. Mary Ann Heiss and S. Victor Papacosma (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008), pp. 141-60.- (With Andreas Wenger), « New Perspectives on the Origins of the CSCE Process, » in Origins of the European Security System: The Helsinki Process Revisited, 1965-75, ed. Andreas Wenger, Vojtech Mastny, and Christian Nuenlist (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 3-22 – « The 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: A Missed Opportunity for Détente? » Journal of Cold War Studies 10, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 3-25.- « Soviet Policy and the Military Side of Détente, » in Säkerhetspolitik och historia: Essäer om stormaktspolitiken och Norden under sjuttio år. Vänbok till Krister Wahlbäck [Security Policy and History: Essays on Great Power Politics and the North since the 1930´s in Honor of Krister Wahlbäck], ed. Mats Bergquist and Alf.W.Johansson (Stockholm: Hjalmarson & Högberg, 2007), pp. 263-84.- « Why Did the Cold War End Peacefully? The Importance of Europe, » Historically Speaking [Boston] 9, no. 2 (September/October 2007): 8-10.- « The Elusive Détente: Stalin’s Successors and the West, » in The Cold War after Stalin’s Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace?, ed. Klaus Larres and Kenneth Osgood (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), pp. 3-26.- « On the Soviet Side, « in Michael Herman, J. Kenneth McDonald, and Vojtech Mastny, Did Intelligence Matter in the Cold War? (Oslo: Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, 2006), pp. 57-69. – « Imagining War in Europe: Soviet Strategic Planning, » in War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War: Threat Perceptions in the East and West, ed. Vojtech Mastny, Sven G.. Holtsmark, and Andreas Wenger (London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 15-45.