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Gar Alperovitz


Publications

  • "Remember the Gulf of Tonkin," op-ed, Washington Post, Sept. 22, 2002 html
  • "On Liberty," Boston Review, October/November 2000 html
  • "Tarnished God," Review of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix html
  • "Ecological Sustainability: Some Elements of Longer Term System Change" html
  • "Is a Progressive Future Possible?," essay (including reviews of Corporation/Nation by Charles Derber and Graceful Simplicity by Jerome Segal), Tikkun, May/June 1999. html
  • "Progressives and The Return of Capital," review of The Stakeholder Society by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, Lingua Franca, April 1999. html
  • "Who Owns Capital," Boston Review, February/March 1999. html
  • "Down and Out: A Nuclear Path"
    December 30, 1996
    The Nation html
  • "A Theory of Cold War Dynamics: U.S. Policy, Germany, and the Bomb," The History Teacher, May 1996.
  • "Buy the Nukes: Deterrence is Dead But We Can Kill The Nuclear Threat"
    January 22, 1996
    The Nation html
  • "Hiroshima: Historians Reassess," Foreign Policy, Summer 1995. html
  • "The Centrality of the Bomb," with Kai Bird, Foreign Policy, Spring 1994. html
  • "The Fading of the Cold War--and the Demystification of Twentieth Century Issues," with Kai Bird, Diplomatic History, Spring 1992.
  • "Marshall, Truman, and the Decision to Drop the Bomb," with Robert L. Messer, International Security, Winter 1991/92.

Dr. Gar Alperovitz, historian and political-economist, is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political-Economy at the University of Maryland's Department of Government and Politics.

His books include The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, a new edition of Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam, Rebuilding America (with Jeff Faux) and Strategy and Program and Cold War Essays. He is also editor (with Roger Skurski) of American Economic Policy: Problems and Prospects. Dr. Alperovitz's numerous articles have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times and The Washington Post to International Security, Journal of Economic Issues, Technology Review, Social Policy, Foreign Policy, Wharton Magazine, Diplomatic History, and many other academic and popular journals. Dr. Alperovitz lectures widely and has testified before numerous Congressional Committees. Previously he served as Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a Special Assistant in the Department of State.

Dr. Alperovitz received his PhD in Political-Economy from Cambridge University, a Masters degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Wisconsin. A Marshall Scholar and Guggenheim and Phi Beta Kappa Fellow, he has also been a Fellow of King's College at Cambridge University, a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, a Guest Professor at The University of Notre Dame, and a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University.

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