Robert J. McMahon

Dr. Robert McMahon
Nationality	United States
Fields	International Relations
Institutions	University of Florida Ohio State University
Alma mater	Fairfield University, B.A. University of Connecticut, Ph.D.

Robert J. McMahon is an American historian of the foreign relations of the United States and a leading scholar^[1] of the Cold War. He currently holds the chair of Ralph D. Mershon Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University.

Career

McMahon received his B.A. from Fairfield University in 1971 and PhD from the University of Connecticut in 1977. He taught at the University of Florida from 1982 to 2005, when he moved to Ohio State University.^[2] He has held visiting positions at the University of Virginia and University College Dublin. McMahon holds a joint appointment with the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at OSU.

McMahon served as 2001 president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.^[3]

Bibliography

Books

• The Cold War in the Third World. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-199-76868-4. Editor.
• Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy: A Diplomatic History. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-608-71910-5. Co-editor with Thomas W. Zeiler
• Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books. 2008. ISBN 978-1-574-88927-7.
• Major Problems in History of Vietnam War. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 2007. ISBN 978-0-618-74937-9.
• The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-192-80178-4. Editor.
• The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-231-10880-5.
• The Origins of the Cold War. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 1998. ISBN 978-0-395-90430-5. Co-author with Thomas G. Paterson.
• The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-231-08226-6.
• Colonialism and Cold War: The United States and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence, 1945–49. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1981. ISBN 978-0-801-47717-1.

Articles and chapters

• "US national security policy from Eisenhower to Kennedy" (PDF). In Melvyn P. Leffler & Odd Arne Westad, eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume I: Origins (pp. 288–311). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-83719-4.
• "The Politics, and Geopolitics, of American Troop Withdrawals from Vietnam, 1968–1972" (PDF). Diplomatic History 34 (3): 471–483. 2010. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2010.00862.x.
• "U.S. Policy toward South Asia and Tibet during the Early Cold War". Journal of Cold War Studies 8 (3): 131–144. 2006. doi:10.1162/jcws.2006.8.3.131.
• "The Point of No Return: The Eisenhower Administration and Indonesia, 1953–1960". In Kathryn C. Statler & Andrew L. Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War (pp. 75–100). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2006. ISBN 978-0-742-55381-1.
• "Diplomatic History and Policy History: Finding Common Ground". Journal of Policy History 17 (1): 93–109. 2005. doi:10.1353/jph.2005.0005.
• "Contested Memory: The Vietnam War and American Society, 1975–2001". Diplomatic History 26 (2): 159–184. 2002. doi:10.1111/1467-7709.00306.
• "Introduction: The Challenge of the Third World" (PDF). In Peter L. Hahn & Mary Ann Heiss, eds., Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World since 1945 (pp. 1–14). Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-814-20856-4.
• "Cultures of Empire". Journal of American History 88 (3): 888–892. 2001. JSTOR 2700390.
• "The Illusion of Vulnerability: American Reassessments of the Soviet Threat, 1955–1956". The International History Review 18 (3): 591–619. 1996. doi:10.1080/07075332.1996.9640755. JSTOR 40107497.
• "The Study of American Foreign Relations: National History or International History?". Diplomatic History 14 (4): 554–564. 1990. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.1990.tb00108.x.
• "United States Cold War Strategy in South Asia: Making a Military Commitment to Pakistan, 1947–1954" (PDF). Journal of American History 75 (3): 812–840. 1988. JSTOR 1901531.
• "Eisenhower and Third World Nationalism: A Critique of the Revisionists". Political Science Quarterly 101 (3): 453–473. 1986. JSTOR 2151625.

Notes

1. The description is that applied by Cambridge University Press to the contributors to its three-volume history of the Cold War; McMahon 2010 appears in Volume I.
2. "Robert J. McMahon". history.osu.edu. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
3. "Past Presidents of SHAFR". shafr.org. Retrieved 24 November 2013.

External links

• Robert J. McMahon Ohio State University Department of History
• "Turning Point: the Vietnam War's Pivotal Years", McMahon's lecture for the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program