Kofas
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IU Kokomo historian Jon Kofas has spent the past week in Hamburg, Germany, at an international conference exploring “small wars during the Cold War.” He is one of 22 scholars who presented papers, and his topic dealt with the Truman Doctrine and the Greek Civil War. The Hamburg Institute for Social Research will be publishing the papers of the 22 presenters in book form.
The season has been exciting for Kofas, who also was invited to join the World Association of International Studies (WAIS), part of the prominent Stanford University Hoover Institute. WAIS is dedicated to analysis of U.S. and global affairs. Members are asked to review books in their respective fields and to write articles for posting on the WAIS Web site.
Kofas said he has submitted a dozen short pieces to the WAIS site, and some have already been posted. His topics range from U.S. foreign policy, the International Monetary Fund and the Olympic Games in Athens to Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He said his invitation to join WAIS was likely prompted by positive reviews of two of his books on the WAIS site.
Kofas’ Under the Eagle’s Claw: Exceptionalism in Postwar U.S.–Greek Relations (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003) was endorsed by WAIS member and prominent political writer Noam Chomsky. “With scrupulous use of documentary and historical evidence and impressive analytic skill, Jon Kofas provides a most impressive account of U.S.–Greek relations in the post-World War II era,” Chomsky wrote.
Ronald Hilton, director of WAIS, reviewed Kofas’ The Sword of Damocles: U.S. Financial Hegemony in Colombia and Chile, 1950–1970 (Praeger, 2002). “In an academia of narrow specialists, Jon Kofas is a return to the enlightened age of the Encyclopedists,” Hilton wrote.
Kofas has nine published books and dozens of professional
articles to his credit, with nearly 70 percent of a tenth
volume, tentatively titled Global Integration and Inequality:
Case Studies in Southern Europe and the Third World. He
anticipates submitting it by the end of the year to Pennsylvania
State University Press.
http://wais.stanford.edu
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