Academic Appointments


  • Lecturer, Program in International Relations

2023-24 Courses


All Publications


  • Ideology's iron embrace, <i>Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum</i> CAMBRIDGE REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Rakove, R. 2023
  • Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion Global America Rakove, R. Columbia University Press. 2023
  • Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America (Book Review) JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Rakove, R. 2022; 108 (4): 874-875
  • The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India (Book Review) JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Rakove, R. 2019; 106 (1): 247–48
  • A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Rakove, R. B. 2016; 121 (1): 286–87
  • The Rise and Fall of Non-Aligned Mediation, 1961-6 INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW Rakove, R. B. 2015; 37 (5): 991-1013
  • Isaac & Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic (Book Review) CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY-ANNALES CANADIENNES D HISTOIRE Book Review Authored by: Rakove, R. B. 2015; 50 (2): 347-+
  • Blowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War Strategy (Book Review) JOURNAL OF COLD WAR STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Rakove, R. B. 2015; 17 (4): 188–91
  • Two roads to Belgrade: the United States, Great Britain, and the first nonaligned conference COLD WAR HISTORY Rakove, R. B. 2014; 14 (3): 337-357
  • JFK's last hundred days: an intimate portrait of a great president (Book Review) INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Book Review Authored by: Rakove, R. 2014; 90 (1): 214–15
  • THE NONALIGNED WORLD COMPANION TO JOHN F. KENNEDY Rakove, R. B., Selverstone, M. J. 2014: 384–404
  • Gordian knot: apartheid and the unmaking of the liberal world order (Book Review) SIXTIES-A JOURNAL OF HISTORY POLITICS AND CULTURE Book Review Authored by: Rakove, R. B. 2013; 6 (2): 250–53
  • Conclusion: "A Decent Respect for the Opinions of Mankind" KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND THE NONALIGNED WORLD Rakove, R. B., Rakove, R. 2013: 253–64
  • "A Heavy Burden for Us to Bear": The Era of Vietnam KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND THE NONALIGNED WORLD Rakove, R. B., Rakove, R. 2013: 213–51
  • "Our Most Difficult Political Battle": The Question of Aid KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND THE NONALIGNED WORLD Rakove, R. B., Rakove, R. 2013: 174–212
  • "Getting the Worst of Both Worlds": The United States and Colonial Conflicts KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND THE NONALIGNED WORLD Rakove, R. B., Rakove, R. 2013: 94–134
  • Conferences Amid Crises: The United States and Nonalignment, 1961-1962 KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND THE NONALIGNED WORLD Rakove, R. B., Rakove, R. 2013: 62–93
  • Rationales for Engagement: The New Frontiersmen Approach Nonalignment KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND THE NONALIGNED WORLD Rakove, R. B., Rakove, R. 2013: 28–61
  • "Walking a Tightrope": Eisenhower and Nonalignment KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND THE NONALIGNED WORLD Rakove, R. B., Rakove, R. 2013: 1–27
  • The "Diffusion of Power" and the Spread of Regional Conflicts KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND THE NONALIGNED WORLD Rakove, R. B., Rakove, R. 2013: 135–73
  • Introduction: A Genuine Departure KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND THE NONALIGNED WORLD Rakove, R. B., Rakove, R. 2013: XVII-+
  • Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND THE NONALIGNED WORLD Rakove, R. B. 2013: 1–291