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Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.

Faculty Publications

The Ghosts of Kennan: Lessons from the Start of a Cold War

Logevall, Fredrik. "The Ghosts of Kennan: Lessons from the Start of a Cold War." Review of Kennan: A Life Between Worlds, by Frank Costigliola.102.1, January/February 2023: 170-179.

The Vietnam War in the Pacific World

Cuddy, Brian, and Fredrik Logevall, eds. The Vietnam War in the Pacific World. UNC Press, 2022.

JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

Logevall, Fredrik. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956. Penguin Random House, 2020.

America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity

Logevall, Fredrik and Campbell Craig. America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity, 2nd edition. Harvard University Press, 2020.

Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American Foreign Relations

Bessner, Daniel, and Fredrik Logevall. "Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American Foreign Relations." Texas National Security Review, April 2020.

Domestic Politics

Logevall, Fredrik. "Domestic Politics." Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations. Ed. Costigliola, Frank, and Michael J. Hogan. Cambridge University Press, 2016, 151-167.

Vietnam: Flawed Decisions, Terrible Consequences

Logevall, Fredrik. "Vietnam: Flawed Decisions, Terrible Consequences." Major Problems in American History, Volume II. Ed. Cobbs-Hoffman, Elizabeth, and Edward J. Blum. Wadsworth Publishing, January 2016, 399.

The Quiet American

Logevall, Fredrik. "The Quiet American." The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn. Ed. Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley. Cornell University Press, 2015.

Presidential Address: Structure, Contingency, and the War in Vietnam

Logevall, Fredrik. "Presidential Address: Structure, Contingency, and the War in Vietnam." Diplomatic History 39.1 (January 2015): 1-15.

A People and A Nation: A History of the United States

Norton, Mary Beth, Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard P. Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, and Beth Bailey. A People and A Nation: A History of the United States, 10th Edition. Cengage, 2014.

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

Logevall, Fredrik. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. Random House, 2012.

America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity

Craig, Campbell, and Fredrik Logevall. America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity. Harvard University Press, 2009.

Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977

Logevall, Fredrik, and Andrew Preston, eds. Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis

Lawrence, Mark Atwood, and Fredrik Logevall, eds. The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. Harvard University Press, 2007.

Terrorism and 9/11: A Reader

Logevall, Fredrik, ed. Terrorism and 9/11: A Reader. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002.

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies in the Principal Movements and Ideas

DeConde, Alexander, Richard Dean Burns, and Fredrik Logevall, eds. Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies in the Principal Movements and Ideas Scribners, 2002.

The Origins of the Vietnam War

Logevall, Fredrik. The Origins of the Vietnam War. Taylor & Francis, 2001.

Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam

Logevall, Fredrik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. University of California Press, 2001.