David S. Painter
David S. Painter (born 1948) is an associate professor of international history at Georgetown University. He is a leading scholar[1] of the Cold War and United States foreign policy during the 20th century, with particular emphasis on their relation to oil.
Education and career[edit]
Painter studied history at King College (BA 1970), Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar (BA 1973), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD 1982).[2] In addition to his career in academia, Painter has worked for the Congressional Research Service, the Department of Energy, and the State Department.[2] In 2008, he was a visiting fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.[2] He also serves on the advisory board for H-Energy.[3]
Work[edit]
Painter's classic work has turned out to be his very first book: Oil and the American Century, published in 1986. Influenced by the work of Ellis Hawley and others,[4] and operating within a corporatist framework,[5] the study is an "impressively researched monograph that devotes particular attention to the close collaboration between public policy makers and oil company official,"[6] a partnership that led to "the evolution of an American foreign oil policy that protected dwindling American domestic reserves, met American security needs, and guaranteed American access to foreign oil."[7] One historian opined that, "if anything proves more remarkable than the ambitious scope of this study, it is the extent to which Painter accomplishes his objectives. [… It] may also be the most important book yet written on America's foreign oil policy."[8] Others described it variously as "exemplary"[9] and "superb".[10] The 1987 UK edition has not been out of print since its original publication.[11]
Painter's 1999 history of the Cold War was described as an "excellent",[12] a book that "presents a very good analysis of the end of the Cold War, emphasizing the economic weakness of the Soviet Union and the strains of the arms race upon the Soviet economy."[13]
Selected publications[edit]
Books and case studies[edit]
- Origins of the Cold War: An International History (2nd ed.). New York & London: Routledge. 2005. ISBN 978-0-415-34109-7. (Co-editor with Melvyn P. Leffler).
- The Cold War: An International History. London: Routledge. 1999. ISBN 978-0-415-19446-4.
- The United States, Great Britain, and Mossadegh (PDF). Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. 1993. ISBN 1-56927-332-4.
- Deciding Germany's Future, 1943–1945. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. 1989. ISBN 1-56927-323-5.
- The German Question and the Cold War. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. 1988. ISBN 1-56927-415-0.
- Allied Relations in Iran: 1941–1945. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. 1986. ISBN 1-56927-425-8.
- Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of US Foreign Oil Policy, 1941–1954. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-801-82693-1.
Published in the UK as Private Power and Public Policy: Multinational Oil Corporations and United States Foreign Policy, 1941–54. London: I.B.Tauris. 1987. ISBN 978-1-850-43021-6.
Articles and book chapters[edit]
- "Oil and the American Century" (PDF). The Journal of American History 99 (1): 24–39. 2012. doi:10.1093/jahist/jas073.
- "Oil, resources, and the Cold War, 1945–62". In Melvyn P. Leffler & Odd Arne Westad, eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume I: Origins (pp. 486–507). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-83719-4.
- "The Global Environmental Footprint of the U.S. Military, 1789–2003". In Charles E. Closmann, ed., War and the Environment: Military Destruction in the Modern Age (pp. 20–24). College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-603-44115-5. (Co-author with J. R. McNeill).
- "The Marshall Plan and Oil". Cold War History 9 (2): 159–175. 2009. doi:10.1080/14682740902871851.
- "A Partial History of the Cold War". Cold War History 6 (4): 527–534. 2006. doi:10.1080/14682740600979295.
- "Markets, Technology, and U.S. Foreign Policy". Diplomatic History 29 (2): 387–391. 2005. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2005.00489.x.
- "The End of the Cold War". In Jean-Christophe Agnew & Roy Rosenzweig, eds., A Companion to Post-1945 America (pp. 479–500). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 2002. ISBN 978-0-631-22325-2. (Co-author with Thomas Blanton).
- "Explaining US Relations with the Third World". Diplomatic History 19 (3): 525–548. 1995. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.1995.tb00648.x.
- "Oil and World Power". Diplomatic History 17 (1): 159–170. 1993. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.1993.tb00167.x.
- "International Oil and National Security". Daedalus 120 (4): 183–206. 1991. JSTOR 20025409.
- "Oil and the Marshall Plan". Business History Review 58 (3): 359–383. 1984. JSTOR 3114553.
Notes[edit]
- ^ The description is that applied by Cambridge University Press to the contributors to its three-volume history of the Cold War; Painter 2010 appears in Volume I.
- ^ a b c "Georgetown People: David S. Painter". georgetown.edu. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^ "H-Net profile: David S. Painter". H-Net. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^ Giebelhaus 1987, pp. 770–1.
- ^ DeNovo 1987, p. 315.
- ^ Hogan 1990, p. 158.
- ^ Qaim-Maqami 1986, p. 1104.
- ^ McMahon 1987, p. 1071.
- ^ Gardner 1987, p. 123.
- ^ Kolko 1990, p. 631.
- ^ "Private Power and Public Policy". ibtauris.com. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^ Rogers 2002, p. 167.
- ^ Boyle 2000, p. 486
References[edit]
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- Boyle, Peter G. (2000). "Review Article: The Cold War Revisited". Journal of Contemporary History 35 (3): 479–489. doi:10.1177/002200940003500309. JSTOR 261032.
- DeNovo, John A. (1987). "Review: Oil and the American Century by David S. Painter". Middle East Journal 41 (2): 314–315. JSTOR 4327573.
- Gardner, Lloyd (1987). "Review: Oil and the American Century by David S. Painter". International History Review 9 (1): 123–126. JSTOR 40105706.
- Giebelhaus, August W. (1987). "Review: Oil and the American Century by David S. Painter". The American Historical Review 92 (3): 770–771. JSTOR 1870099.
- Hogan, Michael J. (1990). "Corporatism". The Journal of American History 77 (1): 153–160. JSTOR 2078647.
- Kolko, Gabriel (1990) [1968]. The Politics of War: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1943–1945. New York, NY: Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-72757-6.
- McMahon, Robert J. (1987). "Review: Oil and the American Century by David S. Painter". The Journal of American History 73 (4): 1070–1071. JSTOR 1904143.
- Qaim-Maqami, Linda (1986). "Review: Oil and the American Century by David S. Painter". The Journal of Economic History 46 (4): 1104–1105. doi:10.1017/s0022050700051202. JSTOR 2121871.
- Rogers, Paul (2002). "Review: The Cold War: An International History by David S. Painter". The Slavonic and East European Review 80 (1): 167–168. JSTOR 4213414.
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