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Staff: Professor
Scott Lucas
Lecturer in American History
Scott Lucas has been on the staff of the
University of Birmingham since 1989 and has been Professor of American
Studies since 1997. A specialist in US and British foreign policy, he
has written and edited seven books, including
Divided We Stand: Britain, the US and the Suez Crisis;
Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union, 1945-56;
George Orwell: Life and Times; and
The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens, and the New American
Century, and published more than 30 major articles. He is the
Executive Director of
Libertas: The Centre for the Study of US
Foreign Policy, Adjunct Professor of the
Institute for North American and European Studies at the University of
Tehran, and a member of the Advisory Board of the
Centre for American Studies and Research at American University Beirut.
He is also the Associate Editor of the
Journal of American Studies.
Professor Lucas is a frequent contributor to American, British, and
international media. A former essayist for the New Statesman, he has
written and presented
Suez: The Missing Dimension for BBC Radio 4 and co-directed the 2007
film
Laban! on the “People’s Power” rising of 1986 in the Philippines.
Current Research
Professor Lucas is currently completing two articles on the legacy of the Suez
Crisis and a trilogy of articles on US foreign policy, political warfare, and
“liberation” from the Cold War to the War on Terror. This will be followed by a
breakthrough book, Empire of Liberation?: How America (and the Bush
Administration) Failed to Lead the World, to be published in 2009 or 2010.
The research for this project is supported by a two-year fellowship from the
Leverhulme Trust.
A
native of Alabama in the southeastern United States, Professor Lucas is still a
keen fan of baseball, stock car racing, and The Onion.
Recent Publications
Books:
The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens, and the New
American Century (London: Pluto, 2004)
George Orwell: Life and Works
(London: Haus, 2003)
Freedom’s War: The US Crusade
against the Soviet Union, 1945-1956 (New York: New
York University Press and Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1999)
The Lion’s Last War: Britain and
the Suez Crisis (Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 1996)
Divided We Stand: Britain, the US, and the Suez Crisis
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991; reissued in paperback by Sphere, 1996)
Selected Articles:
“Suez”, Passport: The Newsletter of the
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (August 2007)
“Enduring Freedom: US Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy,” American
Quarterly (June 2005)
“Negotiating ‘Freedom’,” in Helen Laville and Hugh Wilford (eds.), The
State-Private Network: The United States Government, American Citizen Groups,
and the Cold War (London: Frank Cass, 2005)
“‘A Bright Shining Mecca’”: British Culture and Political Warfare in the Cold
War and Beyond,” in William Roger Louis (ed.), More Studies in Britannia
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005)
“Approaching Race and ‘Americanism’: The NAACP and the State in the Early Cold
War,” in SabineBroeck and Paula Boi (eds.), Cross Routes: The Meaning of Race
in the 21st Century (Lit Verlag, 2003)
“Beyond Freedom, Beyond Control: Approaches to Culture and the State-Private
Network in the Cold War,” in Hans Krabbendam and Giles Scott-Smith (eds.),
The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-1960 (London: Frank Cass,
2003)
“Master and Servant? The US Government and the Founding of the British
Association for American Studies,” European Journal of American Culture
(2002)
“Commentary: ‘Total Culture’ and the State-Private Network” and “Analysis of
Henry Kissinger and the Harvard Summer School Seminar,” in Jessica Gienow-Hecht
and Frank Schumacher (eds.), Culture and International Relations
(Cambridge, MA: Berghahn, 2002)
“Mobilising Culture: The CIA and State-Private Networks in the Early Cold War"
in D. Carter and R. Clifton (eds.), Global Horizons (London: Macmillan,
2002)
“Culture, Ideology, and History,” Global Dialogue (October 2001)
“Beyond Diplomatic History: Propaganda, Ideology, and US Foreign Policy,” in G.
Rawnsley (ed.), Cold War Propaganda in the 1950s (London: Macmillan,
1998)
“The Myth of Leadership: Dwight Eisenhower and the Quest for Liberation,” in C.
Pagedas and T. Otte (eds.), Personalities, War, and Diplomacy (London:
Macmillan, 1997)
“The American Way: Edith Sampson, the NAACP, and African-American Identity in
the Cold War,” Diplomatic History (Autumn 1996) (with Helen Laville)
“Campaigns of Truth: The Psychological Strategy Board and American Ideology,
1951-1953,”
International History Review (May 1996)
"Alliance and Balance: The Anglo-American Relationship and Egyptian Nationalism,
1950-1957", Diplomacy and Statecraft (1996) (with Ray Takeyh)
“A Very British Crusade: The Information Research Department and the Cold War,’
in R.
Aldrich (ed.), British Intelligence, Strategy, and the Cold War (London:
Routledge, 1992)
Broadcast documentary:
Writer and presenter, The Archive Hour: Suez,
BBC Radio 4 (October 2006)
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