Cathal J. Nolan

Associate Professor in the Department of History and Former Director of the International History Institute at Boston University

• M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto

Publications

Professor Nolan’s publications range over international history, American diplomatic history, and military history. He is the author of Principled Diplomacy: Security and Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy and The Longman Guide to World Affairs and editor of Shepherd of Democracy? America and Germany in the 20th Century, Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimensions of International Affairs, and Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775.

In 2002 his four-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations was published. His Age of Wars of Religion: 1000-1650, volumes I and II of ten planned volumes of an Encyclopedia of World Wars, was published in 2006. His co-edited Encyclopedia of U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy was published in January, 2007. Wars of Empire, 1650-1715, the third volume in a series on war of which he is sole author,will be published in 2008.

He is currently working on the next volume in the series as well as a study of battle history, with an emphasis on the great contests of the 20th century.