Robert McMahon

Ralph D. Mershon Professor
History
305B Mershon Center
614.292.5837
mcmahon.121@osu.edu

Education
B.A., History, Fairfield University (1971)
M.A., History, University of Connecticut (1972)
Ph.D., History, University of Connecticut (1977)

Teaching/Research
Dr. McMahon’s teaching and research interests are in U.S. foreign relations.

Selected Publications
"The Politics, and Geopolitics, of U.S. Troop Withdrawals from Vietnam, 1968-1972" (Diplomatic History, forthcoming)

"Security or Freedom?  The Impact of the Korean War on America’s Quest for a Liberal World Order," in America’s Wars and World Order, ed. by Hideki Kan (Hosei University Press, forthcoming)

"U.S. National Security Policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy," in The Cambridge History of the Cold War, ed. by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

"Turning Point: The Vietnam War's Pivotal Year, November 1967-November 1968," in The Columbia History of the Vietnam War, ed. by David L. Anderson (Columbia University Press, forthcoming)

"War, Democracy, and the State," in Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century, ed. by Kenneth Osgood and Andrew K. Frank, (University of Florida Press, forthcoming)

Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order (Potomac Books, 2008)

"Security or Freedom? The Impact of the Korean War on America's Quest for a Liberal World Order," in America’s Wars and World Order, ed. by Hideki Kan (Tokyo, forthcoming)

"Turning Point: The Vietnam War's Pivotal Year, November 1967-November 1968," in The Columbia History of the Vietnam War, ed. by David L. Anderson (Columbia University Press, forthcoming)

"U.S. National Security Policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy," in The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol., ed. by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

"The Danger of Geopolitical Fantasies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the South Asia Crisis of 1971," in Nixon and the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-197, ed. by Fredrik Logevall and Andrew Preston (Oxford University Press, 2008)

"The Security Imperative: U.S. Cold War Strategy, 1947-1963" (New England Journal of History, 2007)

Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War (editor; D.C. Heath, 1990, 1995, 2003; Houghton Mifflin, 2007)

The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2003)

The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II (Columbia University Press, 1999)

The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan (Columbia University Press, 1994, 1996)

The Origins of the Cold War (co-editor; D.C. Heath, 1991,1999)

Colonialism and Cold War: The United States and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence, 1945-49 (Cornell University Press, 1981)

Honors, Awards, and Service
Chair, U.S. State Department Historical Advisory Committee (2009-)

Short-Term Residency, Kyushu University, Japan, awarded jointly by the Organization of American Historians and the Japanese American Studies Association (2004)

President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2001); Vice-President (2000)

Mary Ball Washington Chair in American History, University College Dublin (1999-2000)

Co-Editor, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960, Vols. 15, 17 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992, 1994)

Co-Editor, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955-1957, Vols. 4, 7, 8, 10, 22 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986-89)

Historian, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State (1977-82)

Mershon Projects
The Cold War in the Third World (2009-10)
Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations 1969-77 (2006)
The United States and Public Diplomacy: Toward an International History (2007)

Robert McMahon
Professor of History
The Ohio State University