Igor Lukes Boston University 617-358-1776 [email protected]Employment 1988-date University Professor & Professor of History and International Relations, The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. Associate, The Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University (since 1986). Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (since 2014). Education 1979-85 Ph.D. in International Relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. 1969-76 Ph.Dr. in Philosophy, Univerzita Karlova, Prague. Civic 2005-date Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont. Books Ceskoslovensko nad propasti: selhani americkych diplomatu a tajnych sluzeb v Praze 1945-1948 (Prague: Prostor, 2014). On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Rudolf Slansky: His Trials and Trial. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2006. (A publication in the working papers series.) The Munich Crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II. London: Frank Cass, 1999. (Co- author and co-editor) Ceskoslovensko mezi Stalinem a Hitlerem: Benesova cesta k Mnichovu (Prague: Prostor, 1999). Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Employment 1988-date University Professor & Professor of History and International Relations, The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. Associate, The Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University (since 1986). Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (since 2014). Education 1979-85 Ph.D. in International Relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. 1969-76 Ph.Dr. in Philosophy, Univerzita Karlova, Prague. Civic 2005-date Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont. Books Ceskoslovensko nad propasti: selhani americkych diplomatu a tajnych sluzeb v Praze 1945-1948 (Prague: Prostor, 2014). On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Rudolf Slansky: His Trials and Trial. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2006. (A publication in the working papers series.) The Munich Crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II. London: Frank Cass, 1999. (Co-author and co-editor) Ceskoslovensko mezi Stalinem a Hitlerem: Benesova cesta k Mnichovu (Prague: Prostor, 1999). Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Inside the Apparat: Perspectives on the Soviet Union. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1990. (Co-author) Gorbachev's USSR: A System in Crisis. London: Macmillan, 1990. (Co-editor) US-Soviet Policy in the Third World. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987. (Co-editor) Emerging Doctrines and Technologies. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987. (Co-editor) Hydra of Carnage: International Linkages of Terrorism. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1985. (Co-editor) Refereed articles “Osamelost sebastredneho statu: Benes a tragedia ceskoslovenskej zahranicnej politiky v roku 1938,” Historicka revue XXIX, 9 (2018): 20-25. “The Prague Coup d’État of February 1948: Heretical Thoughts on the Communist Takeover,” Comenius: The Journal of Euro-American Civilization 5, 1 (2018): 53-62.
“Soviet Use of Dangle and Provokatsia Operations: The Early Years,” Journal for Intelligence and Security Studies 11, 1 (2017): 7-14. “The Hamlet of Central Europe: Czechs Between East and West,” Comenius: The Journal of Euro-American Civilization 2, 3 (2016): 215-222. Ceskoslovensko nad propasti: odpoved,” Soudobe dejiny 1-2 (2016): 171-186. “On the Edge of the Cold War: A Reply,” Journal of Cold War Studies 18, 3 (2016): 181-189. “Hon na carodejnice v Sumperku 17. stoleti a stalinsky monstrproces v Praze na pocatku padesatych let 20. stoleti,” Dvacate stoleti/Twentieth Century 2 (2013): 9-26. “Walter W. Birge in Prague, 1945-1948,” Journal for Intelligence and Security Studies 6, 2 (2012): 49-62. “KAMEN: studenovalecnicka akce s americkym rozmerem,” Historie a vojenstvi 3 (2011): 40-46. “The 1948 Coup d’État in Prague Through the Eyes of the American Embassy,” Diplomacy & Statecraft 22, 3 (2011): 431-449.
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“Kamen: A Cold War Operation with an American dimension,” Studies in Intelligence 55, 1 (2011). “Stalinova politika do Ceskoslovaske v letih 1938-1939,” Prispevky za novejso zgodovino 50, 2 (2010): 127-137. “A Chronicle of Wasted Opportunities: Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt’s Sluggish Beginnings in Postwar Prague,” Rocenka textu zahranicnich profesoru 3 (2009). “The Failure of U. S. Special Services: Czechoslovakia, 1945-1948,” Securitas Imperii 1, 15 (2009). “The Rozvedka Dossier on a Defector ‘Who Knew Too Much,’” Journal for Intelligence and Security Studies 3, 2 (2009): 127-134; with Siegfried Beer. “The End of the Cold War: The Night the Masks Fell,” New England Review 30, 4 (2009): 28-34. “Historicke omyly diplomacie,” Parlamentni zpravodaj 12, 10 (October 2008): 62-65. “Spy, Scholar, Artist: The Three Careers of Ladislav Bittman,” Journal for Intelligence and Security Studies 2, 1 (2008): 113-134; with Siegfried Beer. “Czechoslovakia, 1945-1950,” Slovakia XXXIX, 72-73 (2007): 50-62. “Ein nachrichtendienstliches Versagen: Die Amerikaner und die kommunistische Machtergreifung in der Tschechoslowakei 1948,” Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 2 (2007): 201-236. “The Czechoslovak Special Services and their American Adversary During the Cold War,” Journal of Cold War Studies 9, 1 (Winter 2007): 3-28. “Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt: From New York to Prague,” Diplomacy & Statecraft 3, 17 (2006): 523-545. “Ceskoslovensky politicky exil za studene valky,” Stredni Evropa 2, 119 (2004): 68-79. “Czechoslovak Political Exile in the Cold War: The Early Years,” The Polish Review XLVII, 3 (2002): 332-343. “Stredni Evropa: po NATO Paideia,” Stredni Evropa XVIII, 113 (2002): 113-121. “Pripad Vladimira Komarka na pozadi zmen v rovnovaze sil mezi Vychodem a Zapadem, 1948-1967,” Historie a vojenstvi L, 3 (2001): 538-585.
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“Changing Patterns of Power: The Mysterious Case of Vladimir Komarek,” Journal of Cold War Studies, 3, 1 (2001): 61-102. “Jeste jednou o kvetnu 1938 a ceskoslovensko-sovetskych vztazich okolo Mnichova,” Cesky casopis historicky, 98, 2 (2000): 320-322. “Strangers in One House: Czechs and Slovaks, 1918-1992,” Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism/Revue Canadienne des Etudes sur le Nationalisme, XXVII, nos. 1-2 (2000): 33-43. “Dva dokumenty na vecne tema: ceskoslovensko-sovetske vztahy ve tricatych letech,” Soudobe dejiny 7, 3 (2000): 362-366. “Der Fall Slansky: Eine Exilorganisation und das Ende des tschechoslowakischen Kommunistenfürers,” Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 4 (1999): 459-501. “Sovetsky svaz a Ceskoslovensko v predvecer druhe svetove valka: konec jednoho mytu,” Stredni Evropa, 92-93 (1999): 61-82. “Central Europe Has Joined NATO: The Continuing Search for a More Perfect Habsburg Empire,” SAIS Review, 19, 2 (Summer-Fall 1999): 47-59. “Jeste jednou o ‘Zdanovovi v Praze,’” Dejiny a soucasnost 21, 4 (April 1999): 51-52. “The Rudolf Slansky Affair: New Evidence,” Slavic Review 58, 1 (Spring 1999): 160-187. “NATO a Stredni Evropa,” Stredni Evropa 15, 89 (1999): 63-76. “Rodjenje nashe jugoslovenske tragedije: Bosna i Hercegovina, ogledalo nasheg vremena i nashih lica,” Knjizhevnost (Belgrade) 52, 3-4 (1998): 802-810. “Polsko, Amerika a NATO,” Stredni Evropa 14, 77 (1998): 53-63. “Benesch und der Fall Tuchatschewski.” Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 4 (1996): 1-22. “The Tukhachevsky Affair and President Edvard Benes: Solutions and Open Questions.” Diplomacy & Statecraft, 7, 3 (1996): 505-529. “The Czechoslovak Partial Mobilization in May 1938: A Mystery (Almost) Solved.” Journal of Contemporary History, 31, 4 (1996). “The Birth of a Police State: The Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior, 1945-1948.” Intelligence and National Security, 11, 1 (1996): 78-88. “The GPU and GRU in Pre-World War II Czechoslovakia.” The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 8, 1 (1995): 91-104.
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“Czechs and Slovaks: The Failure to Find a Decent Past.” Cultural Survival 19, 2 (1995): 19-24. “Czechoslovak-Soviet Relations from the End of World War 1 to Adolf Hitler’s Machtergreifung.” Diplomacy & Statecraft 5, 2 (1994): 248-86. “Pral si Stalin valku v roce 1938?” Historie a vojenstvi 2 (1994): 45-69. “Stalin a Benes koncem zari 1938.” Slovansky prehled, 3-4 (1994): 266-79. “The Czechoslovak Intelligence Service and Western Reactions to the Communist Coup d’État of February 1948.” Intelligence and National Security (1993): 73-85. “Benesch, Stalin und die Komintern: Vom Münchner Abkommen zum Molotow-Ribbentrop Pakt.” Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 3 (1993): 325-53. “Stalin and Benes at the End of September 1938: New Evidence from the Prague Archives.” Slavic Review 52, 1 (1993): 28-48. “Did Stalin Desire War in 1938? A New Look at Soviet Behavior During the May and September Crises.” Diplomacy & Statecraft, 2, 1 (1991): 3-53. “Great Expectations and Lost Illusions: Soviet Use of Eastern European Proxies in the Third World.” The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 2, 4 (1989): 1-13. “To Reform or Not to Reform: Gorbachev's Initiatives and Their Impact on Czechoslovakia.” Harvard International Review, 10, 1 (1987): 14-17. “Managing US-Soviet Arms Control Initiatives: Do We Speak the Same Language?” Comparative Strategy, 6, 2 (1987): 165-84. “Hegel, Freedom and the Ideological Roots of Soviet Foreign Policy.” The Fletcher Forum, 5, 2 (1981): 278-94. Book chapters “S ruskym vetrem v zadech: o ceste Donalda Trumpa do Bileho domu,” in Luke Harding, Tajna dohoda: jak Rusko pomohlo Trumpovi ziskat Bily dum (Prague: Prostor: 2018). “Transatlanticky svet v postfaktickem svete,” in Proc? (Prague: Zed, 2018). “Smrt Jana Masaryka,” in Vaclava Jandeckova, Kauza Jan Masaryk: novy pohled. Doznani k vrazde a tajny presetrovaci proces StB z let 1950-1951 (Domazlice, Nakladateltsvi Ceskeho lesa, 2015).
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“Pohled z druhe strany Atlantiku,” in Karel Sevela, Cesky krtek v CIA: cesta Karla Köchera pres americke tajne sluzby do Prognostickeho ustavu (Prague: Prostor, 2015). “Introduction,” in Vaclava Jandeckova, Tri muzi proti totalite: odbojar Ota Tulacka, pilot RAF Josef Hybler a americky diplomat Walter Birge v boji s StB (Domazlice: Cesky les, 2014). “The Terror Machine Behind the 17th Century Witch Trial in Schönberg and the Postwar Stalinist Purge in Prague,” in Alfred Ableitinger and Martin Moll (eds.), License to Detect: Festschrift für Siegfried Beer (Graz: Institut für Geschichte, 2013), 208-235. “Introduction,” in Vaclava Jandeckova, Kamen: svedectvi hlavniho aktera akce “Falesne hranice” u Vserub na Domazlicku (Domazlice: Cesky les, 2013). “Polityka Stalina wobec Czechoslowacji (1938-1939),” in Marek Kornat and Magdalena Satory (eds.), Ład wersalsko-ryski w Europie Środkowo-wschodniej (1921-1939): studia z polityki miedzynarodowej (Kraków: Lettra Graphic, 2013), 209-221. “V moji generaci si to pamatuji vsichni,” in Charles Laurence, Spolecensky agent Jiri Mucha: laska a zal za zeleznou oponou, intriky, sex, spioni (Prague: Prostor, 2012), 203-209. “Reading the Czech Tea Leaves: Three Western Perspectives on Postwar Prague,” in Ivo Pejcoch and Prokop Tomek (eds.), Od svobody k nesvobode, 1945-1956 (Prague: Ministry of National Defense, 2011), 7-14. “From the End of the Cold War to a Paideia Clinic for Central Europe,” in László Borhi (ed.), Európa, nemzet, külpolitika: Tanulmányok Ádám Magda 85. Születésnapjára (Budapest: Aura Kiadó, 2010), 143-152. “Showdown in der Kapelle. Der tschechoslowakische Geheimdienst, 1968.” Stefan Karner et al. (eds.), Prager Frühling. Das internationale Krisenjahr 1968 (Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2008), 791-805. “Czechoslovakia and Poland During the Crisis of 1956: The Dog that Did Not Bark,” Jan Rowinski (ed.), The Polish October 1956 in World Politics (Warsaw: The Polish Institute of International Affairs, 2007), 153-173. “Pies, ktory nie szczekal: Czechoslowacja a wydarzenia w Polsce w 1956 roku.” Jan Rowinski (ed.), Polski pazdziernik 1956 w politice swiatowej (Warsaw: Polski Institut Spraw Miedzynarodowych, 2006), 145-166. “Operace Velky metar.” In Jiri Pernes and Jan Foitzik (eds.), Politicke procesy v Ceskoslovensku po roce 1945 a ‘pripad Slansky’ (Brno: Ustav pro soudobe dejiny AV CR, 2005), 59-85.
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“Central Europe: In NATO and EU.” In Janusz Farys, Roman Nir, and Marek Szczerbinski (eds.), Studia z dziejow Polski i Europy: ksiega dedykowana Profesorowi Piotrowi Stefanowi Wandyczowi (Gorzow Wlkp., 2004), 539-546.
“After NATO: Paideia?” In Alan M. Olson, David M. Steiner, and Irina S. Tuuli (eds.), Educating for Democracy: Paideia in an Age of Uncertainty (New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004): 163-170.
“Hledani domova.” In Pavel Palecek (ed.), Exil a politika: historici o nejnovejsich dejinach a o sobe (Brno: Sursum, 2004): 92-114.
“Czechoslovakia’s Path to World War II: The Birth and Decline of the First Republic.” In Robert Boyce and Joseph A. Maiolo, The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues (London: Palgrave, 2003): 165-175. “Operace Velky metar: kapitola z dejin studene valky.” In Miroslav Sestak and Emil Vondracek (eds.), Evropa mezi Nemeckem a Ruskem (Prague: Historicky ustav AV CR, 2000), 575-599. “Stalin and Czechoslovakia in 1938-1939: An Autopsy of a Myth.” In Igor Lukes and Erik Goldstein (eds.), The Munich Crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II (London: Frank Cass, 1999). “A Road to Communism: Czechoslovakia 1938-1948.” In Norman M. Naimark and L. Ya. Gibianskii (eds.), The Emergence of Communist Regimes, 1944-1949 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996). “Will the CPSU Survive Gorbachev’s Reform?” In The Soviet Empire: The Challenge of National and Democratic Movements (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1990). “Changes in the Decision-Making Apparat: Vsja vlast’ sovietam.” In Gorbachev’s USSR: A System in Crisis? (London: Macmillan, 1990). “The Ally Who Refused to be Happy: Czechoslovakia in the Context of Gorbachev’s Reformism.” In Shock Waves: Consequences of Glasnost and Perestroika (Boston: The College of Communication, Boston University, 1989). “Stalin's Diplomatic Maneuvers During the 1938 Czechoslovak Crisis.” In The Munich Diktat: Fifty Years After (Boston: The Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology & Policy, 1989). “Defectors and other Political Refugees: An Eastern European Perspective.” In The Congressional Record of the Hearings of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate, October 8, 1987. “Soviet Use of Eastern European Proxies in the Third World.” In Guerrilla Warfare & Counterinsurgency: U.S.-Soviet Policy in the Third World (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1988).
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“Radio Moscow's North American Service: A Study in Radio Propaganda.” In The New Image Makers: Soviet Propaganda and Disinformation under Gorbachev (New York: Pergamon Press, 1988). “Linguistic Deception and U.S.-Soviet Arms Control Treaties.” In Why the Soviets Violate Arms Control Treaties (Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1988). “Shifts in Political-Military Doctrine as Projected by the Warsaw Pact During the 1960s.” In U.S.-Soviet Doctrine and Technologies: Global and Regional Implications (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987). “Human Nature: The Soviet View.” In The USSR Today and Tomorrow: Problems and Challenges (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987). Journalism “El Peligro de la Intromisión Rusa en Europa,” La Razón (19 August 2018). “Lide si pletou politiku se zabavou,” Dnes (6 August 2018). “Dve mouchy v Trumpove caji s kralovnou,” Hospodarske noviny (16 July 2018). “Skripalovy vazby na USA,” Respekt XXIX, 28 (9 – 15 July 2018). “The Prague Coup d’État of February 1948,” American Friends of the Czech Republic XXIV, 1 (Spring 2018). “Kdyz se dva hadaji . . . Putin se smeje. Politicky slon Trump na summit G7 plnil jeho sny,” Aktualne (12 June 2018). “Piotr S. Wandycz, 1923-2017,” Slovansky prehled 1, 104 (2018): 218-221. “Un Regalo Para El Kremlin,” La Razón (27 March 2018). “Putinismo vengativo y débil,” La Razón (15 March 2018). “Jak ruske tajne sluzby pomohly Trumpovi do Bileho domu,” Lidove noviny (27 January 2018). “Havel je neopakovatelny: Otisk T. G. Masaryka zustal v presidentskem urade i za komunismu,” Hospodarske noviny (26 January 2018). “John le Carré uzavira kruh,” Lidove noviny (22 November 2017). “Respekt je cestou k porazce,” www.ct24.cz (8 November 2017).
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“Demokracie neni z cukru. Nerozpusti se, kdyz zacne prset,” Hlidaci pes 2 (2017): 16-17. “Marxismus: droga, iluze a nasili,” Dnes (26 August 2017). “Marxismus stale zatina drapky,” Lidove noviny (11 August 2017). “Trump by si povazoval za cest stat sam proti celemu svetu,” Reflex (4 August 2017). “Babis a Trump se zasadne lisi, ale oligarchove ve funkcich jsou smrti politiky,” E15 Parlamentni volby (17 July 2017). “Prizrak Kennedyho porazky,” Dnes (15 July 2017). “Kdyz nahac na kurtu meni pravidla,” Lidove noviny (1 July 2017). “Co prinese Donald Trump?” Katolicky Tydenik XXVIII, 4 (January 2017). “Putin Spokesman Wears a $670,000 Watch,” To Vima (20 November 2016). “Nejdulezitejsi volby od doby Ronalda Reagana,” Reflex 26/27, 29 (2016). “Cesko: Hamlet stredni Evropy, Echo 24 (2016). Reprinted in Vita nostra revue 26, 2 (2016): 75-79. “Kreml kombinuje antifasistickou retoriku s podporou populistickych a fasistickych stran,” Reflex (14 March 2016). “Putin Works to Dissolve EU Through Neo-Fascist Connections, 2paragraphs (3 November 2015). “Idea, na ktere vzniklo Ceskoslovensko v roce 1918,” Respekt 44 (26 October 2015). “Valka na Ukrajine neskoncila,” Dotyk 42 (16 October 2015). “Lhani ve verejnem prostoru a zacinajici fasismus,” Aktualne (13 October 2015). “Nemohu Americe odpustit Rosenbergovy,” Respekt (4 October 2015). “Vox populi s americkym prizvukem,” Dotyk (18 September 2015). “Co znamenal prichod Rude armady do Ceskoslovenska?” Pamet a dejiny 2 (2015): 124. “Postavme se hlasum ctvrte cenove skupiny,” Tyden ( 13 July 2015). "Hillary sazi na mensiny, aby ziskala vetsinu," Dotyk (16 April 2015).
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“Co u nas delala po valce americka rozvedka a dalsi zajimavosti kolem unora 1948,” Parlamentni listy (3 January 2015). “Baracka Obamu jeste neodepisujme,” Hospodarske noviny (2 January 2015). “Tarnished Heroes: Don’t Dismiss Them,” The Conversation (31 December 2014). “Konec diskuse o roli agenta Jurije Nosenka,” Lidove noviny (27 December 2014). “Prague’s Velvet: Wearing Off 25 Years Later,” The Conversation (4 December 2014). “V4 Countries Seem Doomed to Repeat Their History,” Russkii vopros (19 November 2014). “Kym byl Pavel Wonka, kdyz umiral?” Lidove noviny (15 November 2014). “Porazka Obamy, ne principu,” Dnes (8 November 2014). “Hrozi druha mnichovska tragedie,” Dotyk (5 September 2014). "Chytrejsi nez Twainova kocka," Respekt, XXV, 30 (21 July 2014). “Putin’s Regret? Victory in Crimea Set the Stage for Losses,” 2paragraphs (3 July 2014). “Barack Obama: truhlar nebo geometr?” Dotyk (6 June 2014). “Demokracie se pohrbila sama,” Dotyk (22 May 2014). “Sestup a pad do Stalinovy naruce,” Dnes (10 May 2014). “Chocen pro lidi,” ECHO (5 April 2014). “Ukraine: NATO Membership, Key to Security,” 2paragraphs (3 April 2014). “Ucraine: contro Putin è pronta una strategia ‘alla Eltsin,’” ilsussidiario.net (23 March 2014). “Whither Ukraine?” BU Today (6 March 2014). “Ukraine Trapped Between the Agile East and Sleepy West,” 2paragraphs (28 February 2014). “Americane nebyli na boj s StB pripraveni,” Lidove noviny (22 February 2014). “Ukraine Solution Should Come From the European Union,” 2paragraphs (20 February 2014.).
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“USTR nema psat o tom, kam se za Husaka chodilo na rande,” iHned.cz (21 February 2014). “Jak se Amerika ocitla v zakopech,” Dnes (12 October 2013). “Vyber budouciho reditele USTR,” Pamet a dejiny VII, 2 (2013). “Nejde o moralku. Jde o zneuziti nastroju statu k dosazeni osobnich cilu,” iHned.cz (17 June 2013). “Sila Bostonu: Proc se Americane nenechali zdeptat nepochopitelnym teroristickym utokem na bostonsky maraton,” Respekt 18-19, 13 (28 April 2013). “Lekce z povalecnych let? Boj s provincionalismem,” Hospodarske noviny (24 April 2013). “Posledni Stalinova obet: Unor nemusel byt vitezny,” Respekt 9, 13 (February – March 2013). “Necha se Barack Obama opet vydirat Republikany?” Ceska pozice (11 November 2012). “Jaky bude ‘novy’ Obama?” Reflex (8 November 2012). “Romney a Evropa,” Dnes (6 November 2012). “Co parta republikanskych ideologu nikdy nedokaze,” Hospodarske noviny (6 November 2012). “Ve treti debate zvitezil Obama. Zvolen vsak byt nemusi,” Ceska pozice (24 October 2012). “Romney nebo Obama? Bez ideologie si uz nelze vybrat,” Ceska pozice (19 October 2012). “Volit dnes komunisty? Cesi jsou unikat,” Hospodarske noviny (15 October 2012). “Chteji Americane v Bilem dome prezidenta, nebo herce?” Ceska pozice (8 October 2012). “The Bridge that Collapsed: Historian Igor Lukes About the Beginning of the Cold War,” Russkii vopros 3 (7 October 2012). “Obama vs. Romney,” Reflex (5 October 2012). “Kdo by mel vest Spojene staty?” Dnes (8 September 2012).
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“Prenechala vahava Amerika Ceskoslovensko Stalinovi?” Hospodarske noviny (23 August 2012). “Hrichy pod kobercem,” Dnes (21 August 2012). “Selhani tajnych sluzeb: USA a CSR, 1945-1948,” Verni zustaneme XXII (May/June 2012): 3-7. “Jak zbohatl Izrael,” Profit (16 April 2012). “Americane maji jasno: plagiatorstvi je kradez,” Lidove noviny (29 March 2012). “America’s Attitude toward Europe and Prospects for Military Cooperation Between NATO and Russia,” Global Europe (9 March 2012). “Jan Prosvic: jak komunista Zapotocky prisel k vile Jana Prosvice,” Profit (15 February 2012). “Rozhodnou v americkych presidentskych volbach nova pracovni mista?” Ceska pozice (6 February 2012). “Rychly odchod Rusu byl naprosty zazrak,” Dejiny a soucasnost (20 January 2012). “Kdo zvitezil ve valce s terorismem?” Ceska pozice (29 December 2011). “Konec bolsevickeho cirkusu a jak se zapomnelo na Leszka Kolakowskeho,” Ceska pozice (12 December 2011). “Ceske tazeni proti politicke korektnosti se kona tricet let po funuse,” Mlada fronta Dnes (7 December 2011). “Kdo je dnes na Wall Streetu extremistou? Demonstranti, nebo financni baroni?” Ceska pozice (16 October 2011). “Karl Marx,” Ekonom (6 October 2011). “Hluboke stopy Usamy bin Ladina,” Ekonom (8 September 2011). “Byt proevropsky je vyrazem sebeucty,” Literarni noviny (2 August 2011). “O melounech a kapricich,” Ekonom (3 July 2011). “Kdo se neprizpusobi, musi zaniknout,” Konzervativni listy (10 June 2011). “Kennedyho rande s Chruscevem,” Profit (9 June 2011). “Ceska nepredvidatelnost svet netrapi,” Profit (4 April 2011).
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“Americko-pakistansky konflikt kvuli Davisove strelbe,” Ceska pozice (8 March 2011). “Maji se USA obavat nastupu demokracie v Egypte?” Ceska pozice (10 February 2011). “President Obama musi opustit politicky stred,” Ceska pozice (16 January 2011). “Co o nas vedi Americane a co naopak my o nich,” TRS (23 September 2010). “Prekvapujici setkani s policistou,” TRS (17 June 2010). “Volby ocima Martana,” Lidove noviny (29 May 2010). “Noc, kdy spadly masky,” Literarni noviny (17 November 2009). “Vymena strazi v CIA: od Bushe k Obamovi,” Respekt 15 (April 2009). “Odvazna rec: Lincolnovy stopy v Obamove presidentskem projevu,” Respekt 6 (February 2009). “Obamova vlada geniu: tym budouciho americkeho presidenta je oslnivy, ale v politice neni intelekt zarukou uspechu,” Respekt 2 (January 2009). “Nadejne vyhlidky: prechod od Bushe k Obamovi je zatim bez problemu,” Respekt 49 (December 2008). “Rudolf Margolius: Cisty charakter ve spinave dobe,” Lidove noviny, 20 November 2008. “At se laska rychle nevypari: Barack Obama prebira zodpovednost za zemi, kterou suzuji problemy olbrimych rozmeru,” Euro 46 (10 November 2008). “Zadna obycejna vrazda: urcite uz jste zapomneli, jak to bylo s Aleksandrem Litvinenkem,” Respekt 46 (November 2008). “Volil jsem Obamu. Obdivuji i McCaina,” Dnes, 5 November 2008. “Vyhraje Obama? Zmeni to USA?” Dnes, 18 October 2008. “Cekani na Lenina: krize financniho kapitalu neni zachrannym kolem pro marxisty,” Respekt 42 (October 2008). “Orwell, McCain a absurdni Sarah,” Respekt 39 (September 2008). “Navrat Spojenych statu k civilizaci: vzkriseni prava na habeas corpus v americkem pravnim systemu,” Respekt 35 (August 2008). “Katyn vs. Chatyn,” Respekt 23 (June 2008)
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“Kdyz se kali pocitace,” Respekt 19 (May 2008) “Dve papezske navstevy v Americe,” Dnes, (16 April 16, 2008). “Obama: nejen cukrkandl pro usi,” Respekt 14 (March 2008) “Kdyz to rozbijete, je to vase,” Respekt 13 (March 2008) “Rusko (znovu) na ceste nikam,” Respekt 8 (February 2008) “Rjazan a kariera presidenta Putina,” Respekt 4 (January 2008) “Tehdy a ted: vira vs. strach,” Respekt 51-52 (December 2007) “Sousedi jsou dulezitejsi,” Respekt 48 (November 2007) “Smrt soucasne politiky,” Respekt 43 (October 2007). “Kdo bude hlidat hlidace?” Respekt 39 (September 2007). “President Bush a vojak Andy B.,” Hospodarske noviny, 5 June 2007. “Muz, ktery znicil duveru v USA,” Dnes, 5 June 2007. “Bush obdrzel ucet: porazka Republikanu znamena prehodnoceni politiky USA,” Euro Tydenik, 30 November 2006. “Vsechno je naruby: postoje mnoha Americanu se po konci studene valky zcela promenily,” Euro, 19 November 2006. “Zakladatel statu: portret TGM z jineho brehu,” Hospodarske noviny, 27 October 2006. “Havel: Politik, ktery byl nezaslouzenym darem dejin, Hospodarske noviny, 6 October 2006. “Politolog: Politici ukazali jen touhu po moci,” Hospodarske noviny, 3 August 2006.
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“A Cold War Mystery: The Unsolved Case of Vladimir Komarek,” The New Presence 3, 2 (Summer 2001): 34-35.
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“US-Libyan Confrontation: The Soviet Role.” Gannett News Services 6 April 1986. “The Party Meets Today: That's No Coincidence, Comrades.” Christian Science Monitor (25 February 1986). “Toward Reciprocity in US-Soviet Relations.” The Primary Source (May 1984). Encyclopedias Peter N. Stearn et al. (eds.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). Entry: “The Munich Conference of 1938” Ruud Van Dijk et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Cold War (New York: Routlage, 2008). Entry: “Rudolf Slansky” Spencer C. Tucker et al. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the Cold War (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2007). “Vladimir Joseph Kazan-Komarek,” and “The Slansky Trial.” Reviews Review of Lászlo Borhi, Dealing with Dictators: The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe, 1942-1989 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016). Hungarian Historical Review 6, 4 (2017): 929-926. Review of Peter Svik, “The Czechoslovak Factor in Western Alliance Building, 1945-1948,” Journal of Cold War Studies 18:1 (Winter 2016): 133-160. H-Diplo Article Review 690, published 14 April 2017. Review of Walter Laqueur, Putinism (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015). The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 29, 4 (Fall 2016): 826-831. Review of Bill Browder, The Red Notice (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015). The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 29, 3 (Fall 2016): 597-604. Review of Kristie Macrakis, Prisoners, Lovers, & Spies: The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014). Journal of Modern History 88, 3 (September 2016): 638-640. Review of Josette Baer, A Life Dedicated to the Republic: Vavro Srobar’s Slovak Czechoslovakism (Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2014). Slavic Review 74, 3 (2015): 615-617. Review of Gregory F. Domber, Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014). H-Diplo Roundtable Review XVII, 1 (2015): 8-12.
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Review of Tennent Harrington Bagley, Spymaster: Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013). Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies 8, 2 (2014): 160-163. Review of Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013). Commonweal (January 24, 2014): 26-27. Review of Martha D. Peterson, The Widow Spy: My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison in Moscow (Wilmington, NC: Red Canary Press, 2012). The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 27, 1 (2013): 11-16. Review of Francis D. Raska, The Long Road to Victory: A History of Czechoslovak Exile Organizations after 1968 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012). H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. July, 2013. Review of Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (New York: Basic Books, 2010). H-Diplo Roundtable Review. September, 2011. Review of Mary Heimann, Czechoslovakia: The State that Failed (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009). The American Historical Review 116, 3 (June 2011). Review of James Ramon Felak, After Hitler, Before Stalin: Catholics, Communists, and Democrats in Slovakia, 1945-1948 (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2009). Slavic Review 70, 1 (Spring 2011): 182-183. Review of Chad Bryant, Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007). Austrian History Yearbook 40 (April 2009): 349-350. Review of Isaack Kobylyanskiy, From Stalingrad to Pilau: A Red Army Officer Remembers the Great Patriotic War (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008). Russian Review 68, 3 (July 2009): 546-547. Review of Mark Cornwall and R. J. W. Evans (eds.), Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Slavic Review 67, 4 (Winter 2008): 992-993. Review of Vaclav Havel, To the Castle and Back (New York: Vintage, 2008). Journal of Historical Biography 3 (2008): 177-181. Review of Edvard Benes, Fall and Rise of a Nation, Czechoslovakia 1938-1941 (Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 2004). The Canadian Slavonic Papers 49, 3-4 (September-December 2007). Review of Benjamin Frommer, National Cleansing: Retribution Against Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005). The Journal of Central European History 39, 4 (September 2006).
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Review of Kathleen Hayes, The Journalism of Milena Jesenska: A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2003. The International History Review XXVI, 3 (September 2004): 654-656. Review of Radomir Luza with Christina Vella, The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance (Baton Rouge: Louisiana, 2002). The International History Review XXV, 2 (June 2003). Review of Ivan Sedivy, Cesi, ceske zeme a velka valka, 1914-1918 (Prague: Nakladatelstvi Lidove noviny, 2001). Zeitschrift für Ostmittleeuropa-Forschung and Sehepunkte 3, 1 (2003). Review of Hermann and Kate Field, Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Family (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999). The International History Review, XXIII, 1 (March 2001): 215-217. Review of Tim Rees and Andrew Thorpe, International Communism and the Communist International, 1919-43 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University, Press, 1998). Slavic Review, 59, 4 (Winter 2000): 881-882. Review of Gabor Batonyi, Britain and Central Europe 1918-1933 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999). The Twentieth Century British History, 11, 4 (2000): 462-464. Review (Part Two) of Michael Jabara Carley, 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999). H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences, 25 February 1999, [email protected]. Review (Part One) of Michael Jabara Carley, 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999). H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences, 21 February 1999, [email protected]. Review of Sto let Masarykovy Ceske otazky. Sbornik prispevku z mezinarodni vedecke konference poradane pod zastitou prezidenta republiky Masarykovym ustavem Akademie ved Ceske republiky (Prague: Ustav T. G. Masaryka, 1995). Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 48, 3 (1999): 443-444. Review of Prvni svetova valka, moderni demokracie a T. G. Masaryk (Prague: Ustav T. G. Masaryka). Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 47, 4 (1998): 613-614. Review of Weg von Österreich! Das Weltkriegsexil von Masaryk und Benes im Spiel ihrer Briefe und Augzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1914 bis 1918. Eine Quellensammlung, by Frank Hadler (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1995). Slavic Review 57, 4 (1998). Review of Boj o Hrad. Hrad a petka: Vnitropoliticky vyvoj Ceskoslovenska 1918-1926 na pudorysu zapasu o presidentske nastupnictvi, by Antonin Klimek (Prague: PANEVROPA, 1996). Slavic Review 57, 4 (1998).
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Review of The Popular Front & Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence, 1918-1940, by Nicole Jordan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Slavic Review 54, 2 (1995). Review of Czechoslovakia: Anvil of the Cold War, by John O. Crane and Sylvia E. Crane (New York: Praeger, 1991). Slavic Review 52, 4 (1993): 889-90. Review of The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century, by Zbigniew Brzezinski (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989). Slavic Review 50, 4 (1991): 1049-50. Review of The Killing of SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, by Callum MacDonald (New York: Free Press, 1989). Slavic Review 50, 4 (1991): 1045-46. Review of Transformational-generative Grammar: An Introductory Survey of Its Genesis and Development, by Brent Jacobsen (Amsterdam, New York: North-Holland, 1977). Journal of Pragmatics 4, 2 (1980): 183-5. Review of British and American English, by Boguslaw Lawendowski, James Pankhurst (Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1975). Philologica Pragensia 21, 3 (1978): 174-5. Honors 2017 Phi Beta Kappa, Honorary Initiate, Boston University Chapter. 2012 The Central Intelligence Agency, Studies in Intelligence Award for “Outstanding Contribution to the Literature on Intelligence.” 2001 Boston University Provost’s Award for Teaching and Meritorious
Academic Work 2000 The Stanley Z. Pech Prize for “The Rudolf Slansky Affair: New
Evidence,” Slavic Review, 58, 1 (Spring 1999). 1997 The Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, Boston University. 1997 The Kahn Book Award for Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler:
The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s. 1997 The Boston Authors’ Club Award for Czechoslovakia Between Stalin
and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s. Grants and Fellowships 2018 Visiting Fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen,
Germany, and University of Olomouc, Czech Republic (summer). 2014 Fulbright Specialist Grant in Political Science in the Czech Republic
(summer). 2012 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow
and the Bitton National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
2007 Short-term Research Grant, The Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. 2004-05 Fellow, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
Washington, DC. 2004-05 Fellowship Research Grant, Earhart Foundation, Ann Arbor,
Michigan. 2004 Open Society Archives Research Fellowship, Budapest, Hungary, August 2004 1999-00 Senior Fellow, The Society of Fellows, Boston University. 1998 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Abroad Research Program, Department of
Education, Washington, DC. 1998 IREX Individual Advanced Research Program, International
Research and Exchanges Board, Washington, DC. 1997 The Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA. 1998-99 Senior Fellow, The Society of Fellows, Boston University. 1997 The Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA. 1997 The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, East
European Studies, Short-term grant, Washington, DC. 1995 IREX Travel Grant, International Research & Exchanges Board,
Washington, DC. 1994-95 Junior Fellow, The Society of Fellows, Boston University. 1993 IREX Fellow, International Research & Exchanges Board,
Washington.
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1994 The National Endowment for the Humanities Grantee, Travel to Collections, Washington, DC.
1991-92 Fulbright Research Scholar, Council for International Exchange of
Scholars, Washington, DC. 1991-92 John M. Olin Faculty Fellow in History, John M. Olin Foundation,
Inc., New York, NY. 1991-92 IREX Fellow, International Research & Exchanges Board, Princeton,
NJ. 1988 John M. Olin Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. 1984 The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, The
Kennan Institute, Short-term grant, Washington, DC. 1983 The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, The
Kennan Institute, Short-term grant, Washington, DC. 1983 Roothbert Fellow, The Roothbert Foundation, New York, NY. 1980-81 Henry C. Lodge Fellowship for Studies in Civilization and Foreign
Affairs, The Fletcher School, Tufts University. 1979-80 Henry C. Lodge Fellowship for Studies in Civilization and Foreign
