COLD WAR HISTORYEUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL
September 7-9, 2017
Sciences Po CollegeReims Campus, France

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 72 p.m.: Registration
2:30-4:10: SESSION I, OPENINGS•KAETE M. O’CONNELL (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY,
PHILADELPHIA): Food, Peace, and Democracy:
Humanitarianism in Postwar Germany
Discussant: EIRINI KARAMOUZI (UNIVERSITY OF
SHEFFIELD)•BRUNO SETTIS (SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE,PISA – SCIENCES PO): Welfare capitalism,
democratic socialism, Atlantic crossings. The
case of Gino Giugni
Discussant: N. PIERS LUDLOW (LSE)

4:10-4:30: Coffee Break
4:30-6:10: SESSION II,
DEFINING THE WESTERN COMMUNITY•

ALICE CIULLA (UNIVERSITY OF ROMA TRE):
Spreading Anti-Communism Among Elites:
the USIA and the Magazine «Problems ofCommunism»
Discussant: TANYA HARMER (LSE)•TOM WRAIGHT (UNIVERSITY COLLEGELONDON), Louis Hartz and Cold War Social
Science: The making of a Cold War Liberal
Discussant: SARAH MILLER-DAVENPORT(UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD)FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
9:10-10:50: SESSION III, GOING GLOBAL•

ALEX FERGUSON (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON): “The Ablest Man in Southeast Asia”:
Nguyen Huu Tri, Ngo Dinh Diem and the U.S.
Mission in Indochina, 1950-54
Discussant: LEOPOLDO NUTI (UNIVERSITY OF
ROMA TRE)•DMITRY ASINOVSKIY (EUROPEAN UNIVERSITYIN SAINT-PETERSBURG), Religion as a revolutionary ideology. The Soviet perception ofthe role of religion in national liberation movements in the Third world (1950s-1980s)
Discussant: ROHAM ALVANDI (LSE)
10.50 - 11.10: Coffee Break
11.10 – 1: ROUNDTABLE• The Cold War and the Global Turnin Historical Studies
Participants: MARIO DEL PERO (SCIENCES PO),TANYA HARMER (LSE), N. PIERS LUDLOW (LSE)
1- 2.30: Lunch Break
2:30-4:10: SESSION IV,CROSSING THE IRON CURTAIN•ALAN MARIČIĆ (UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO,CANADA), Breaking Through the Hallstein
Doctrine: Berlin, Bonn, and the Non-Aligned
Conference in Belgrade, 1961
Discussant: ANTONIO VARSORI (UNIVERSITY OF
PADUA)•PHILIPPE VONNARD (UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE): Crossing the Iron Curtain with theBall? The European champions clubs’ cup asa bridge between West and East during theCold War in Europe
Discussant: OLIVER RATHKOLB (UNIVERSITY OF
VIENNA):10-4:30: Coffee Break
4:30-6:10: SESSION V, THE ENERGY WEAPON•CORINA MAVRODIN (LSE): Courting the nonAligned: Romania, Petro-iplomacy and theGlobal Cold War
Discussant: OLIVER RATHKOLB (UNIVERSITY OFVIENNA)•JUN FUJISAWA (KOBE UNIVERSITY): The Soviet-Iranian Gas Deal and the Shock of the
Iranian Revolution, 1965-1979
Discussant: ROHAM ALVANDI (LSE)SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
9:10-10:50: SESSION VI,THE NORTH-SOUTH CHALLENGE•ILARIA ZAMBURLINI (UNIVERSITY OF UDINE):
Development assistance and human rights:
the role of the European Community between
the United States and the Soviet Union (19681978)
Discussant: N. PIERS LUDLOW (LSE)•MICHAEL FRANCZAK (BOSTON COLLEGE): Poverty or Development?: The Carter Administration’s North-South Dialogue, 1977-81
Discussant: MICHELE DI DONATO(SCIENCES PO)

10:50-11:10: Coffee Break
11:10-1: SESSION VII,INTO THE 1980S: IDEOLOGY AND STRATEGY•MANUEL DORION-SOULIÉ (GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTSTUDIES, GENEVA): Samuel Huntington and theIdeological Origins of the Rapid DeploymentForce
Discussant: MARIO DEL PERO (SCIENCES PO)•EDOARDO ANDREONI (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE): 1985, The ‘Year of SDI’: Reagan, ‘Star
Wars’ and transatlantic relations
Discussant: LEOPOLDO NUTI (UNIVERSITY OF
ROMA TRE)

1- 2.30: LunchORGANIZERS:MARIO DEL PERO (SCIENCES PO)MICHELE DI DONATO (SCIENCES PO)
michele.didonato@sciencespo.fr

This project has received funding from theEuropean Union’s Horizon 2020 researchand innovation programme under theMarie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement
No 704507