Shifrinson Speaks at Workshop, Presents Paper at Conference
Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke at a recent workshop on American foreign policy and presented a paper at a conference on The Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War.
Shifrinson spoke at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs for a workshop on “Regions and Regionalism in American Foreign Policy.” The mission of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is to facilitate the production of pathbreaking social science research on international, comparative, transnational, and global issues by faculty and students at Harvard.
Last week, Shifrinson also gave a paper at Texas A&M University for a conference entitled The Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War. His remarks focused on the postwar strategic context in which the Berlin Airlift occurred, and the consequences of the airlift on U.S.-Soviet relations in the early Cold War. The paper will eventually be published as part of an edited book by Texas A&M University Press.
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.