Robert Morrison

Diplomacy with Russia may come from an unexpected source: polar bears.

Peace with Russia, as in Soviet times, has always been unpalatable but necessary.

President Kennedy understood the need to counter America’s enemies without precipitating WWIII.

The results of the disastrous Versailles Treaty led to war in Europe for a century. Can we finally exorcise the ghosts of Versailles?

“Triumph of the Will” serves to show us how attractive demagoguery can be.

In 1945 Americans and Russians met near Torgau, Germany in a rare moment of unity. Can this be repeated?

Gorbachev was different from all his predecessors. He knew how cruel the Soviet system was.

When in 1967 the University of Virginia recruited Professor Norman A. Graebner from the University of Illinois to teach diplomatic history, a huge row ensued.

We were stirred, never shaken, by our real-life James Bond figure. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett was the picture of an English aristocrat, without a hint of stuffiness. So genial, so approachable, we young University of Virginia students were thrilled by each of his lectures on diplomatic history—especially about anything on England and Germany in the interwar period.

What we can gain from the origins of the Great War is that strategic ambiguity played a role in bringing on that cataclysm.