Entrevista com James G. Hershberg

Cold War in Latin America

Resumen

Born in New York City in 1960, Professor James G. Hershberg is a major reference in Cold War studies and contemporary international history. His name is attached to important initiatives for the democratization of the Cold War field regarding knowledge dissemination and availability of primary sources. He directed the Cold War International History Project (and edited the project’s Bulletin) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, from 1991-97. He now edits the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) book series co-published by the Stanford University and Wilson Center Presses. Five years after earning his Ph.D. from Tufts University, he received the 1994 Stuart Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993; Stanford University Press, 1995). Before coming to George Washington University (GWU) in 1997, he taught at Tufts and California Institute of Technology (1989-91). At GWU, he is a co-founder of the GW Cold War Group, a studies group for both faculty and students. He works closely with the National Security Archive, a declassified documents repository and research institute based at the University. In 2012, he published Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam (Stanford/Washington, DC: Stanford University Press/Wilson Center Press). In addition to his expertise in nuclear history, the Vietnam and Afghanistan Wars, and the Iran-contra affair, Hershberg is a staunch defender of multi-archival research – especially in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Latin America.