Positions

Overview

  • I have graduate degrees in both history and international relations and was a U.S. State Department historian. I taught at the University of Virginia before coming to UNCW.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

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    2019-01-01 Review of Ashley Jackson, Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq.  Passport: The Society of American Foreign Relations Review.  2019-01-01
    2018-01-01 Conceiving the ‘Arc of Crisis’ in the Indian Ocean Region.  Diplomatic History.  42. 2018-01-01
    2016-01-01 A Willing Retreat; Richard Nixon, Great Britain, and the Anglo-American Alignment in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula: Making Allies Out of Clients; and Anglo- American Policy Toward the Persian Gulf, 1978-1985: Power, Influence, and Restraint.  Journal of Cold War Studies.  2016-01-01
    2016-01-01 Review of Akira Iriye (ed.) Global Interdependence: The World after 1945.  E-International Relations.  2016-01-01
    2016-01-01 Review of Ayaz Husain, Mapping the End of Empire: American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World.  American Historical Review.  2016-01-01
    2015-01-01 Review of Ayaz Husain, Mapping the End of Empire: American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World.  American Historical Review.  2015-01-01
    2015-01-01 Review of Stephen McGlinchey, U.S. Arms Policies towards the Shah’s Iran.  E-International Relations.  2015-01-01
    2015-01-01 Review of Stephen McGlinchey, U.S. Arms Policies towards the Shah’s Iran.  E-International Relations.  2015-01-01

    Article

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    2008-08-01 American Ascendance and British Retreat.  Middle East Strategy at Harvard; Olin Institute for Strategic Studies; Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.  2008-08-01
    2008-08-01 Britain's Misunderstood Role in the Middle East.  The History News Network.  2008-08-01

    Book

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    2008-06-01 American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region.  Palgrave Macmillan. 2008-06-01

    Chapter

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    2020-01-01 Britain’s Presence in the Persian Gulf, 1617-2019,.  Routledge. 2020-01-01
    2020-01-01 United Kingdom” and “Turkey,.  Routledge. 2020-01-01

    Document

    Year Title Altmetric
    2008-08-01 Britain's Misunderstood Role in the Middle East.  The History News Network. 2008-08-01
    2008-05-01 "Turkey" and "United Kingdom".  Routledge. 2008-05-01

    Presentations

    Research Overview

  • Anglo-American relations; U.S. in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean regions, international history of the Cold War

    • Investigator On

    Teaching Overview

  • U.S. foreign relations, international history of the Cold War, U.S. national security, U.S. and the world, modern U.S. political history

    • Full Name

  • William Taylor Fain