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Last semester, de la Durantaye taught a class on the post-World War II novel and a seminar on Vladimir Nabokov. While writing his dissertation at Cornell, de la Durantaye had become fascinated by the author’s “thoroughgoing independence of mind.” What began as a mere chapter devoted to Nabokov became the whole dissertation...
...written constitution for post-World War II Japan prohibits the country from going to war. For decades, that curb on Japanese militarism was much appreciated by Asian nations colonized or brutally occupied by Japan (China, Korea and Taiwan) during the war. But since the Gulf War of 1991, when Japan felt humiliated by its inability to contribute anything but a large check, the country has reappraised its constitutional pacifism. Starting in 1994, it started sending small military missions to troubled countries such as Cambodia and East Timor. New laws were passed to allow the missions, and the troops never fought...
Over the past decade, Assistant Professor of History Caroline M. Elkins has carefully crafted her maiden work, a 500-page indictment of British authorities’ repression of the Mau Mau uprising in post-World War II Kenya. Imperial Reckoning is a composite of oral interviews and painstaking documentary research that already seems destined to become the authoritative work on an important but under-discussed episode in African history...
...DIED. PAUL H. NITZE, 97, U.S. negotiator and diplomat who worked in every Administration from Franklin Roosevelt's through Ronald Reagan's; in Washington, D.C. Erudite and irritable, wealthy and brash, Nitze was involved in many of the most important foreign-policy matters of post-World War II America, from the Marshall Plan to the nuclear arms race. An original cold warrior, he believed in countering the Soviet Union with military strength, although he may be best remembered for his 1982 attempt at conciliation, when he invited his Soviet counterpart to take a walk near Geneva in an effort...
...need to reach out to foundations, to individuals, to corporations, to families that are beginning to seriously look at their social impact on the world and to the large sums of money being set aside by the post-World War II generation, that they feel they can once again make an enormous difference,” he said. “The biggest challenges I think will be in the form of clarifying these large-scale initiatives so that they can readily be seen in consumable-size or bite-size pieces that individuals can readily identify with and become part...