Shifrinson Presents at Workshop on History of NATO
Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, participated in a recent workshop jointly hosted by King’s College London, the University of Cardiff, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on the history of NATO.
Shifrinson presented on recent archival research highlighting the U.S. effort to expand NATO into Eastern Europe in the 1990s as a way of suppressing the emergence of the European Union and Russia as American rivals.
This work is part of Shifrinson’s ongoing book project studying the origins and conduct of suppression strategies in world politics.
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson’s teaching and research interests focus on the intersection of international security and diplomatic history, particularly the rise and fall of great powers and the origins of grand strategy. He has special expertise in great power politics since 1945 and U.S. engagement in Europe and Asia. Shifrinson’s first book, Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts (Cornell University Press, 2018) builds on extensive archival research focused on U.S. and Soviet foreign policy after 1945 to explain why some rising states challenge and prey upon declining great powers, while others seek to support and cooperate with declining states.