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Kofas to speak at Hamburg conference, joins Stanford institute
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KOKOMO, Ind.—Two international scholarly institutions recently recognized the work of IU Kokomo Professor of History Jon Kofas, Ph.D. In February, the Hamburg Institute for Social Research selected Kofas as one of twenty-two scholars to present papers at its May 18–22 conference in Hamburg, Germany. The conference will look at “Small Wars During the Cold War, 1945–1990.” Kofas will present the paper “The Truman Doctrine and the Greek Civil War.” “The institute plans to publish the papers into a book,” Kofas said. “It is covering all costs of the participants, which include six U.S. nationals.” This spring, Kofas was also invited to join the World Association of International Studies (WAIS), part of the prominent Stanford University Hoover Institute. Persons may be nominated to WAIS by other association members, who are primarily academicians, current and former politicians, and former military officers from around the world. 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 and post them on the WAIS Web site, http://wais.stanford.edu. 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 Israel versus Palestine conflict. Kofas 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. Chomsky wrote: “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.” WAIS Director Ronald Hilton reviewed Kofas’ The Sword of Damocles: U.S. Financial Hegemony in Colombia and Chile, 1950–1970 (Praeger, 2002). Hilton called the book “impressive scholarly work” that provides “excellent, detailed surveys of Colombia and Chile’s modern history, with stress on economic problems. . . . In an academia of narrow specialists, Jon Kofas is a return to the enlightened age of the Encyclopedists.” A prolific writer now with nine published books and dozens of professional articles to his credit, Kofas said he is about 70 percent finished with 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. His work is supported by a $10,000 IU Intercampus Research Support Fund grant.
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