Jonathan Haslam

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Jonathan Haslam
Nationality British
Academic background
Alma mater London School of Economics
Academic work
Discipline Historian
Institutions Institute for Advanced Study
Main interests History of the Soviet Union

Jonathan Haslam (born January 15, 1951) is George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge with a special interest in the former Soviet Union. He has written many books about Soviet foreign policy and ideology.

Education and career

Jonathan Haslam studied at the London School of Economics (B.Sc.Econ 1972), Trinity College, Cambridge (M.Litt. 1978), and was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham in 1984. He has lectured at many institutions including: the University of Birmingham 1975–84; Johns Hopkins University, 1984–86; University of California, Berkeley, 1987–88; King’s College, Cambridge, 1988–92; Yale University 1996; Harvard University, 2001; Stanford University, 1986–87, 1994, 2005; and the University of Cambridge 1991–2015.

Haslam joined the faculty of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study on July 1, 2015.[1]

Most of Haslam's works deal with the history of the Soviet Union. During his tenure at the University of Cambridge he wrote:[2]

My first political memory was the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. It was the only time I saw my father afraid as he thought it entirely possible–through his London contacts–that we would all be blown up. Now I know how close we came. I have thus spent most of my life in pursuit of an explanation for the Cold War by focusing on the Soviet Union.

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Further reading

  • Haslam, Jonathan. "The Road Taken: International Relations as History" (H-DIPLO, 2020) online autobiographical statement
  • Samuels, Warren J. "'Burk's' Troublemaker: The Life and History of A. J. P. Taylor and Haslam's The Vice of Integrity: E. H. Carr, 1892-1982." Research in the History of Economic Thought & Methodology (2004), Vol. 22, pp 291–315.

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