Charlie Laderman
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Senior Lecturer @warstudies, Visiting Fellow @HooverInst, Historian and author *Hitler's American Gamble* w/ @BasicBooks & @PenguinUKBooks. Audere est Facere.
Joined May 2018
Absolutely thrilled that Hitler's American Gamble has been selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice!.
Here are 9 new books recommended by critics and editors at The New York Times.
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This is one of the most powerful opening paragraphs of any article I've read recently. Brilliant journalism @Lees_Martina & @HannahAlOthman in tomorrow's @thesundaytimes #EndOurFireSafetyScandal #EndOurCladdingScandal
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If the government pushes ahead with this, it will make the Poll Tax debacle look like smart statecraft. It is not only deeply immoral but it will be politically catastrophic for the Conservatives.
I am hearing an increasing volume of whispers that an announcement of #CladdingTax forced loans to leaseholders to pay for remediation work is imminent. This is what the End Our Cladding Scandal campaign said when the proposal was first mooted
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Alexei Navalny was a World Fellow while I was at Yale as a graduate student and I feel privileged to have met him - he's extraordinarily brave and as @RoryStewartUK says everyone who believes in democracy and liberty should be standing with him.
We should all be expressing solidarity with Alexey Navalny - well done @WorldFellows.
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I am delighted and v honoured that my @OUPHistory @OUPAcademic book, Sharing the Burden, has been awarded the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize @OfficialBAAS @AmericanStudies
The winner of the 2020 Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize is awarded to @CharlieLaderman for Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order (OUP, 2019).
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Thanks @adam_tooze for your kind words & highlighting the importance of accurately reconstructing "perhaps the most fateful week in history." A fascinating Chartbook on the need to put ourselves back "in the middle of things" in order to better inform our current policies.
Hitler’s American Gamble by Sims and @CharlieLaderman offers a remarkable blow by blow account of the week in Dec 1941 that decided the fate of the world. Haunting reading in 2022. Chartbook #119 on the echoes of history in the present.
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As @PBottomleyMP says leasehold laws in Britain are scandalous - one of the worst legacies of feudalism, going back back to William the First in their archaic nature. And not a word on any of this in the budget, at the same time that there are all sorts of perks for developers.
The Chancellor did not reference leaseholders or those trapped by unsafe cladding across the country during the budget. The Gov must put a temporary stop on forfeiture to leaseholders. What is happening now is scandalous and archaic. There must be justice for leaseholders.
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While this is still being largely ignored by much of the media, this issue has the potential to be even more electorally damaging to @Conservatives than the Poll Tax and risks alienating millions of voters, their families & their friends.
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Today is the centenary of the #sevres treaty, the initial Middle East peace after WW1. In discussions in Paris, this was one vision for remaking region. I found it in Woodrow Wilson papers while researching my book *Sharing the Burden* @OUPHistory. The Middle East that never was.
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What makes this vile image even more tragic is that the portrait in the background is of Charles Sumner, the abolitionist Senator who was caned almost to the death on the Senate chamber by a pro-slavery congressman.
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@DPJHodges I was at Wembley on Sunday & it was truly horrendous. Police minimal, security overwhelmed & transport a disaster. Little anticipation that hordes might descend on biggest game in 55 years or that game might not finish in 90. Politicians speaking of "just a few" are delusional.
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I'm delighted and extremely honoured that *Sharing the Burden* has been shortlisted for the Whitfield Prize, alongside such wonderful authors! @warstudies @KingsCollegeLon @OUPAcademic @OUPHistory.
Today we announce the second of our 2020 Book Prize Shortlists: the Whitfield Prize for a monograph in British or Irish history. Congratulations to all the nominees!. #RHSWhitfieldPrize #twitterstorians
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"The building safety scandal that unfurled in the wake of Grenfell might prove to be the greatest policy & regulatory failure in living memory." If government regulates to ensure this isn't repeated then, surely, it accepts it shouldn't have happened in 1st place #EnoughIsEnough.
This week @theipaper: the Building Safety Bill has failed thousands of people trapped in buildings with safety defects but, it was never really intended to help them. Something has to change.
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@ukcag @mhclg @RICSUKPress Absolutely shameful. This was already the biggest corporate and regulative failure in recent British history but the political response by @mhclg is even more worrying because it has sanctioned corruption on a massive scale.
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Hugely honoured that *Sharing the Burden* is the inaugural winner of the H. Wayne Morgan Book Prize in Political History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Very grateful to the judges @shgape and for the support of @OUPHistory & @warstudies.
SHGAPE is pleased to announce our 2021 winners for the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, H. Wayne Morgan Book Prize, and Graduate Student Essay Prize. Congratulations to all our winners!
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I am extremely honoured that my book, Sharing the Burden, was shortlisted for The Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize in British History and was delighted to discuss it in this short video. It covers #USUK power shift, #humanitarian intervention & the #ArmenianGenocide.
Charlie Laderman introduces Sharing the Burden, shortlisted for the #RHSWhitfieldPrize. The winners of the #RHSAwards2020 will be announced Weds 22 July, 16.30 BST. @CharlieLaderman @warstudies.@OUPAcademic
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Nixon's final crime as President - cottage cheese and pineapple as a last lunch?!.
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The heinous massacres in Israel on October 7 were the worst atrocities that the country has ever experienced. But the genocidal Islamist Anti-Semitism that motivated it has deep historical roots. I am grateful for the chance to reflect on this dispiriting history @EngelsbergIdeas.
Hamas’ genocidal massacre on October 7 has deep historical roots | @CharlieLaderman .
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"A bone from the base of Louk's skull had been found matched with Louk's DNA. Doctors determined that a person cannot live without the bone found & concluded that Louk could not possibly still be alive." .Each day the depravity of this pogrom sinks to new depths.
Body of Shani Louk, who was paraded half naked & broken on the back of a truck by Hamas butchers, has been found by the IDF her family confirm. This comes after they were cruelly kept hopeful by Shani’s credit card being used in Gaza & hoaxers
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After Grenfell, only tower blocks with similar cladding were classed as risky. But government inadvertently extended the scope last year, guiding that any building with an external wall system, including simple cladding/ insulation, should be assessed for safety.#CladdingScandal.
Downing Street asks banks to help solve cladding crisis
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I wrote this for @washingtonpost @madebyhistory setting debate over recognizing Armenian Genocide in historical perspective and why it remains relevant for U.S. foreign policy today. If you'd like to read more, please check out my book Sharing the Burden -
Perspective: What recognizing the Armenian genocide means for U.S. global power
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This Wednesday (10/6) at 4pm I'll be launching my @OUPAcademic book *Sharing the Burden* and discussing #USUK relations, global order and genocide in a live webinar @warstudies @KCL_CGS. I'd love you to join & to share with others who might be interested.
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It was a real pleasure to discuss our book w/@dimbleby_jd - and for an update on the real plot twist, my wife did give birth to a wonderful baby daughter just a few hours later!.
You can now watch Brendan Simms & @CharlieLaderman in conversation w/ @dimbleby_jd about their new book, 'Hitler's American Gamble', here: Register NOW to hear Simms discuss the new book in Cambridge on 7 & 15 December. More info:
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This is the same mentality as at the airport at Dagestan a couple of weeks ago. It’s the sort of mindset that inspires mass violence. And it’s happening on British streets.
DOWNING STREET NOW. Anti Zionist crowd goes mad. rumour is a Zionist has shown up!
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Very grateful to John Gaddis for his generous blurb - Hitler's American Gamble is available in the U.S. from next Tuesday!.
"Sure to become an instant classic," HITLER'S AMERICAN GAMBLE reveals how December 11, not Pearl Harbor, was the real watershed that created a world war and transformed international history. Learn more, available 16 November: #twitterstorians #wwii
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It was a privilege to be part of this event with @GillHistory @rsmith99 & @PatrickSalmon17 - a wonderful way to start our @ihr_history seminar In ‘Applied History and Contemporary Geopolitics.‘ Video coming soon!.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for this event and to @CharlieLaderman for chairing. We enjoyed answering all your interesting questions!.
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Great point @Yair_Rosenberg. In Hitler's American Gamble, Brendan Simms & I show how these fears remained into late 1941. That 1937 decision undermined American understanding of true nature of Holocaust as Laurel Leff & others have shown. Would be good to see contract renewed.
How could the NYT move beyond symbolism to improve their coverage of Jews? It could "renew its contract with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the global Jewish news agency it dropped in 1937 over fears that its coverage of the Nazi regime was overly biased."
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My latest piece on how geopolitical competition can advance democracy in the US and why Xi Jinping is just the latest in a long line of autocrats to criticise the US in order to just his regime's own much graver violation of human rights.
Authoritarian regimes have always pointed to the ways in which the US falls short of its vaunted values in order to justify their own graver violations of human rights.
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It was a privilege to write the 5 Books Column @WSJ this weekend on the March to Global War in 1941 and to recommend excellent books by @daniel_todman, Eri Hotta, Ian Kershaw, Evan Mawdsley and John Thompson.
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This is a fascinating & extremely powerful example of Applied History @Dannythefink. Brendan Simms and I tried something similar in our study of Donald Trump's worldview. Remarkable how effective it is to go back and read what an individual wrote & said.
Corbyn adviser Andrew Murray argues there’s “no evidence” that in the 30s the Soviets were "an imperialist power brutal in foreign conduct." Given they invaded Poland, imprisoned my grandad, shot his friends & deported my Dad to Siberia I beg to differ.
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Had a great time discussing History, Humanitarian Intervention & Global Order @CSIS_PHS with @HalBrands @SAISHopkins. Particularly appreciate @aroopmukharji's comments & TR expertise. I wrote on these issues @WarOnTheRocks @OUPHistory #twitterstorians.
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It was fun to work with @MetroUK and my oldest friend @jayjaffa on a series of videos on the #Election2020. First up - why does this election matter? Special thanks to @ejcharnock for sterling camera work. @warstudies @ibtauris.
Pandemic 😷 Recession 📉 Potential war ⚔. 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone. But away from these unprecedented times, why does this Presidential election matter? . @CharlieLaderman, lecturer in @warstudies at @KingsCollegeLon explores.
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I'm grateful to @MarkMovsesian and @LawLiberty for an extremely thoughtful review of my @OUPAcademic book, Sharing the Burden, that stresses the continued relevance of the #ArmenianGenocide to American policies in the #MiddleEast today.
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It’s a huge honor to be shortlisted alongside such excellent scholars @e_sarotte @robert_lyman @SPlokhy, Richard Overy, Neil Faulkner and Sean McMeekin!.
Many congratulations to @CharlieLaderman - 'Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War', co-authored with Brendan Simms has been shortlisted for the @RUSI_org Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History! #twitterstorians.
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Thanks @OUPHistory for making part of *Sharing the Burden* available free. It explores US rise to world power, origins of the special relationship & 1st potential Anglo-American intervention in Middle East, after Armenian massacres. @OUPAcademic @SHAFRhistorians #twitterstorians.
@OxUniPress have made the first chapter of our very own @CharlieLaderman's book 'Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order' free to read online. @warstudies @DSD_Kings @KingsSSPP .
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Grateful to Whitfield Prize judges for shortlisting my book and shining light on issues - the mass killing of an entire community & strategies for preventing it - that are as pressing as ever. In this brief video I discuss influence of @Gary__Bass & @SamanthaJPower books on mine.
Charlie Laderman introduces Sharing the Burden, shortlisted for the #RHSWhitfieldPrize. The winners of the #RHSAwards2020 will be announced Weds 22 July, 16.30 BST. @CharlieLaderman @warstudies.@OUPAcademic
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It was a privilege to work with @WarOnTheRocks on this adapted extract of my @OUPHistory book *Sharing the Burden* If you're interested in #WW1, #MiddleEast and #ArmenianGenocide it's currently available for 30% off with EXSHAFR20 -
How the Armenians' struggle for survival became entangled in the foreign policies of the United States and the British Empire before, during, and after World War I.
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Astonishing given the stakes, and the millions of people affected, that @BBCParliament did not show the debate in the Lords live & @thetimes contained no mention of the issue at all today. #BuildingSafetyCrisis #claddingscandal.
“Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders living in unsellable and potentially dangerous high-rise homes will continue to face fire safety bills of up to £100,000 each after MPs again voted against banning building owners from passing on remediation costs”
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'Ministers and developers are behaving as if haggling over a rug in a Moroccan bazaar.'.
Leader comment: 'Ministers and developers are behaving as if haggling over a rug in a Moroccan bazaar.'
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I'm looking forward to discussing my book *Sharing the Burden* with the excellent @juliairwin, @BedrossDM and Lloyd Ambrosius next month. Hope you'll join us @shgape @OUPHistory @warstudies @SHAFRhistorians.
Join us for a conversation with our inaugural H. Wayne Morgan Prize winner, @CharlieLaderman, June 16, at 3pm ET. To register: #twitterstorians
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"The Tories' misconceptions about voters who live in tower blocks, as well as their fear of U-turning, have blinded them." Spot on @stephenkb. This is a moral, economic & political failing of baffling proportions, a scandal that will shape a generation's outlook. #CladdingCrisis.
i in the i: on the cladding scandal and the utter, angering craziness that it still persists:
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It was a pleasure to speak on @WarOnTheRocks podcast about my new book, Sharing the Burden, after my talk @UTAustin @ClementsCenter.
Author @CharlieLaderman discusses his book Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order as part of the Horns of a Dilemma podcast @WarOnTheRocks
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I was very proud to be part of this excellent volume, edited by Richard Ellis and @SethCotlar, and looking forward to see your review @lmchervinsky (and reading your book, which looks fascinating.).
I just finished a review for this book from @uvapress, co-edited by @SethCotlar & Richard Ellis. It presents a really compelling argument about the role of the president in crafting historical memory and why we should take that responsibility seriously. Highly recommend.
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A principal reason that intelligence failed is because Hamas engaged in sophisticated long-term strategy to convince Israel that they were, at least in short-term, prioritizing economy over violence. Logical conclusion - there can be no accommodation & Hamas must be destroyed.
Despite building institutionalised dissent into its intelligence systems, the country was still caught out by terrorists. @SuzanneRaine2 on how Israel lost sight of its enemies:.
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Thrilled to make this shortlist and honoured to be in such fine company.
@PenguinUKBooks @e_sarotte @yalepress @SPlokhy @robert_lyman @OspreyBooks The sixth book to be shortlisted for this year's Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History is 'Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbour and the German March to Global War' by Brendan Simms and @CharlieLaderman, published by @AllenLaneBooks.
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Delighted to see @BenjaminHett's review of Hitler's American Gamble in the print edition of @nytimes this weekend. Very grateful for his incisive and generous review.
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Honoured to see Hitler's American Gamble on this list alongside some excellent books. Thanks to @aroberts_andrew for the nomination and for describing it "as a very important book . Truly eye-opening, myth-busting history." #WW2.
#BooksoftheYear.Our contributors pick their Books of the Year. Featuring @BardosAlan @petertonkin50 @1642Author .@ProfGSheffield @ScrutinEye . @Books2Cover. Let us know your books of the year too. #bookrecommendations #bookreviews
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Delighted that @KCL_CGS were selected to host one of these seminars and looking forward to working with @CamGeopolitics & @FCDOHistorians on our exciting new initiative in Applied History and Geopolitics!.
IHR announces 10 new Partnership Seminar Series for 2021-22. Inter-disciplinary and international interventions in key areas . New online seminars incl histories of environment, Anthropocene, well-being, risk & truth, plus applied history. #twitterstorians
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Royalty arrives on time and leaves on time. So it is with Her Majesty the Queen, with one memorable exception .
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"When the people whose entire aim is to hold you to account want you back, it probably means as a politician you’re doing a decent job." Hopefully any future Conservative leader will restore a minister to a post where he was actually doing some good. @LiamSpender.
In memoriam: Gove started to crack open a housing crisis paralysed by indecision
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I'm excited to be spending the 2021/22 academic year @HooverInst and looking forward to getting started!
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This is hugely alarming. Beyond the human rights implications, there are major geopolitical concerns. We are likely looking at an Azerbaijani attack on Armenia, which Aliyev has called Western Azerbaijan, and an attempt to seize Armenian territory to create a bridge to Nakchivan.
Remember when they assured us Artsakh’s Armenians would be guaranteed the same rights as any Azerbaijani citizen?. This is Azerbaijan’s idea of “peaceful coexistence” & “reconciliation”.
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5 Days in December. I believe these 96 hours in 1941 were the most important in diplomatic history. From #PearlHarbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on #America. #twitterstorians would you agree?.
#OnThisDate “December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt . Learn more about HITLER'S AMERICAN GAMBLE: #PearlHarbor and Germany's March to Global War ⤵️ #Twitterstorians
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Honoured that my @washingtonpost @madebyhistory piece on U.S. foreign policy and the Armenian Genocide, based on my @OUPHistory book, is featured in @myHNN top 10 for last week alongside some excellent scholars.
Roundup Top 10! Op eds by historians and/or about history. This week features: @HC_Richardson, @irpinaingiro, @seanwilentz, @JimMillward, Mary Jo Binker, @irinibus, John Milton Cooper, @NotoNixon, Karen J. Greenberg, @AileenTTeague, & @CharlieLaderman.
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I spoke @UTAustin @TheLBJSchool on my @OUPAcademic book, Sharing the Burden, about how the American and British responses to the Armenian Genocide led to rise of a new global order cc @ClementsCenter @KCL_CGS @warstudies. Full talk here @WarOnTheRocks #Hornsofadillema podcast.
In the latest #Hornsofadilemma podcast, @CharlieLaderman discusses his book 'Sharing the Burden' and how the Armenian genocide led to the rise of a global order based on liberalism, sovereignty, and a commitment to human rights. Listen here:.
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It defies belief that this is occurring in a developed country. #BuildingSafetyCrisis.
Three-quarters of cladding systems on new medium-rise buildings use combustible materials, data shows #ukhousing
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And amazingly there are still some supposedly intelligent people who claim Hamas is not really anti-Semitic.
Hamas leader: “Not just in the West Bank or Gaza, but in every city worldwide, we're shaping the future—training suicide bombers to target Jews”.
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Thanks to @rachelclarekerr and Donald Bloxham for a great discussion the other day on my new book *Sharing the Burden. The recording is now available - you might notice a short break halfway through when my one year old daughter decided the Wifi router was a fun toy!.
For those who weren't able to join us for yesterday's event 'The Armenian Genocide and Anglo-American Struggle to Remake Global Order' here's a link to the recording on the @warstudies youtube channel. Enjoy! @CharlieLaderman @rachelclarekerr .
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"As a feudal relic it was, perhaps, inevitable that the leasehold system of property ownership in England and Wales would lead to exploitation . Leasehold has become an inappropriate contract for modern Britain."
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@Alan_Allport This excellent article by Michael Geyer & Charles Bright is a good starting point. They also presented follow-up as part of great colloquium @adam_tooze convened at Yale in 2011. Also included excellent papers by @davidwblight1, @GilmoreGlenda & others -
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Brendan & I welcomed the opportunity to write about the lessons of 1941 for great power rivalry today, drawing on material from our new book *Hitler's American Gamble* @penguinpress @BasicBooks.
The tinderbox of 1941 shows that the risk of armed conflict between China and the US is real. Brendan Simms and @CharlieLaderman on what Hitler’s war with America reveals about today’s great power rivalries.
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Despite the challenges and the potential for embarrassment, there is a duty for scholars to write about history while it's still smoking. Grateful to @alastair_benn for the opportunity to contribute this essay @EngelsbergIdeas.
Fantastic debut in @engelsbergideas by @CharlieLaderman. On writing history while it's still smoking.
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Just spent a fascinating couple of hours discussing history, policy & analogical thinking with excellent students @CSPC_SSE. Included a very stimulating discussion of @PhillipsPOBrien's nuanced and provocative article on Ukraine and Munich @TheCriticMag -
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Looking forward to discussing my new book *Sharing the Burden* with @rachelclarekerr and Professor Donald Bloxham at 4pm today @warstudies @HCAatEdinburgh. Please join us and sign up here -
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Would that be the same "principled" position that Ireland took during the Second World War?.
An ex-diplomat given free rein in the Guardian to say Ireland is more principled because it has less Jews. Ideology which used to be on the far-right fringes has gone mainstream
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This is a superb and chilling🧵 on the strategic dilemmas now facing Israel. It does not necessarily provide answers but clearly outlines the key questions that Israeli strategists will be grappling with.
Strategically what do Hamas hope to achieve? Asking this question is inseparable from asking what does Iran hope to achieve? They both abhor a two state solution, neither wants peace with Israel in any form & both want hegemony. Hamas over the Palestinian people, Iran regionally.
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In light of Biden Admin's potential move to recognise #ArmenianGenocide (h/t @ianbremmer), I'm re-upping my @WarOnTheRocks piece on the historical backstory & why this issue continues to matter so much in debates over America's global role #twitterstorians
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I was delighted to contribute a piece on how Japan's Pearl Harbor attack created a supply crisis for the Allies that was only resolved by Hitler's declaration of war on the U.S. 5 days later. @AspectsHistory is an excellent publication for anyone interested in historical writing.
Free via #kindleunlimited.Aspects of History Issue 7. . Featuring @James1940 @robert_lyman @Tessadunlop @CharlieLaderman and more. Subscribe for just £9.99/$9.99. @warstudies. #militaryhistory #historyteacher #twitterstorians #ww2
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It was a privilege to be part of this great @WileyHumanities volume on US Foreign Relations, superbly edited by @CRWDietrich!.
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Same here. My family fled after the pogroms and my first academic publication looked at the Kishinev pogrom and its aftermath. Watching those scenes in Makhachkala and I felt like I was reading newspaper reports from 1903.
The hideous scenes in Makhachkala, Dagestan, which I frequently visited during my days in the Caucasus wars after the fall of USSR, took me back to the story of my family who escaped Vilna in the Russian Empire as anti-Jewish pogroms started in Kishinev 1903.
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As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, its legacy continues to be felt on the worldview of @realDonaldTrump. #koreanwar70years
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Excellent piece on echoes of Hitlerian strategy in Putin's failed strategy, drawing partly on Hitler's American Gamble. To hear more on the parallels join us @warstudies meeting room at 5pm today - .
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Thrilled to see this really thoughtful review of my @OUPHistory book *Sharing the Burden* @ProvMagazine by @cremer_tobias.
.@CharlieLaderman’s “Sharing the Burden” provides a compelling account of how the Armenian question acted as a catalyst for an emerging American-British geopolitical alliance and the US rise as a predominant global actor – via @cremer_tobias
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To quote then Vice President Thomas Marshall: "Death had to take him in his sleep, for if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight.".
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, died at age 60 #OnThisDay 102 yrs ago: Jan. 6, 1919. As VP, he became POTUS upon Pres. McKinley's death in Sep. 1901 and served 1901-09. Staunch conservationist, only POTUS to be a Medal of Honor recipient. #twitterstorians
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It was great fun to be part of this fascinating volume on PMs and Presidents, with a cast of terrific contributors. Excellent editing from @MichaelCullina2 & @martinjohnfarr.
Includes wonderful chapter from @CharlieLaderman @martinjohnfarr @sylviaellis131 @AndrewErhardt John A. Thompson, BJ McKercher, Victoria Honeyman, James Ellison, Gill Bennett, Kathy Burk, @todd__carter Nigel Ashton, @CliveWebb14 @OlmsteadJustin @Dr_JamesTCooper.
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This might be the most vacuous, ahistorical example of post-colonial thought. Hamas is not to blame for "banning homosexuality" in Gaza, according to @OwenJones84, the British are. The British mandate might have ended in 1948 but Hamas has no agency in Jones' worldview.
Oh, and by the way, it wasn't actually Hamas who introduced the law banning homosexuality in Gaza. Guess who it was?. The British Empire. "Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited in Gaza under the British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance 1936.".
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I'm really looking forward to interviewing John Tesh for the next instalment of our 'Conversations with Strategy' - it will be a unique opportunity to hear from the person previously responsible for overseeing the government's civil emergency planning and response.
📢 Calling @warstudies students!.Conversations with Strategy featuring John Tesh on risk and resilience.📅 28 Jan, 13:00 - 14:00. Join @CharlieLaderman for a talk with Visiting Professor John Tesh CBE . Register:
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Great to see mine & B Simms ideas referenced in this important piece by @TomMcTague & @PeterAtlantic. As we argued back in 2016, it is essential to set Trump within his own personal history to understand his fixations and their impact on the world. @ibtauris @BloomsburyBooks.
When it comes to foreign policy, Donald Trump’s most important characteristic is not amorality or a lack of curiosity; it is naïveté. @TomMcTague and @PeterAtlantic assess the president's impact:
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.@BBCNews, you are aware that "from the river to the sea" is an appeal to wipe out Israel. It is abhorrent that you would post this picture as simply "pro-Palestinian" without explaining its connotations.
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Important and erudite thread.
There’s a complex set of historical debates about why the atomic bombs were dropped and moral debates about whether it was justified. This explanation is far closer to fact-free “propaganda” than pretty much any of those arguments.
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On Wednesday 10th June I'll be speaking on my @OUPHistory book *Sharing the Burden* about humanitarian intervention, US-UK relations, global order and the Armenian Genocide @KCL_CGS's live webinar. Please join us and share this with anyone who might be interested. #booklaunch.
Registration now open for our live webinar 'The Armenian Genocide and Anglo-American Struggle to Remake Global Order' (10 June) with @CharlieLaderman and Prof Donald Bloxham (@EdinburghUni), chaired by @rachelclarekerr. @warstudies @KingsSSPP.
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"The British constitution is a flexible accumulation of experience — detailing what works & what doesn’t work in the real world, not the abstractions or rigidities of set doctrine." Important by @RCrowcroft on the need to know constitutional basics
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It was a pleasure to be back at the 40 Acres @ClementsCenter @TheLBJSchool @UTAustin and to discuss my research with a great audience!.
Former Harrington Fellow Charlie Laderman of @KingsCollegeLon published an article in the @washingtonpost based on the recent talk he gave on campus @UTAustin last month! Read more below:
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.@KingsCollegeLon students, you won't want to miss this! A conversation with former chief of MI6, Sir John Sawers, about his career, tips for getting into the world of Diplomacy & Intelligence, and the broader global strategic picture. Sign up ⬇️ and join us on 25 March, 1-2pm!.
📢 Calling all @warstudies students!.📅 25 March, 1-2pm. Join @CharlieLaderman & Prof John Gearson for a unique opportunity for students to gain insights from one of our most prestigious visiting fellows, former chief of MI6, Sir John Sawers. Register:
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Enough @metpoliceuk .You have failed an entire community, & decent, law abiding people, with your policing in this crisis. Please will you implement the laws of this land, stop the incitement of violence & crack down on the actions of a prescribed terror group.
We've been tagged in quite a few posts with video and photos from the Hizb ut-Tahrir protest in central London this afternoon. Below is an update that explains what we've done in response and the decisions reached following advice from specialists in this field.
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This is a terrific article @TomMcTague. It deserves a wide reading.
‘Can there be anything more obsessively Western than such an insistence on framing everything through the lens of colonialism and racism?’. @TomMcTague on our warped discussion of Israel and Hamas: 👇
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This book was made possible by the support of everyone @ClementsCenter - it was wonderful to spend a year @UTAustin! #HookEm.
#Congratulations to #CCAlum @CharlieLaderman on yet another award from @shgape for his latest publication #SharingtheBurden #UTExcellence #HookEM.
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Wilson never forgot the Armenians. After leaving office, he hung a painting of an Armenian girl in the drawing room of his DC home, where it continues to hang to this day. I discuss this here in extract from my book *Sharing the Burden* #ArmenianGenocide.
The ANCA’s Aram Suren Hamparian was honored to represent Americans of Armenian heritage today during a solemn wreath-laying ceremony at the grave of President Woodrow Wilson, located in Washington DC’s National Cathedral.
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Really useful and succinct thread for @warstudies & @kingshistory students taking my course, The Long View, on the post-Cold War world this year and still mulling over what their lecturer meant in his rambles on contemporary history.
A thread on writing contemporary history and getting older:.
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This is a fascinating piece of work on a critically important figure in early 20th British diplomatic history. Excellent work and congratulations @ollyys1, one of @KCL_CGS's most recently minted Drs!.
‘A Supremely Good Chinovik’: William Strang, Europe, and the Role of the Official, 1919–1949. Delighted to have my article on William Strang published by @diplostatecraft (available open access) 1/6.
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It was such a pleasure to discuss my @OUPHistory book, SHARING THE BURDEN, with @eiwhalen for @ToynbeePrize. Our conversation covered humanitarian intervention, world order & the destruction of the Armenians. Thanks Emily for engaging so deeply with my work. #twitterstorians.
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How hard is it to also mention the 1400 killed in Israel last week in a cold-blooded massacre? .How hard is it to also mention the 200 hostages?.There is something chillingly anodyne in "Palestinians and all civilians." .Israelis erased entirely & no mention of their suffering.
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The West Germany vs Italy 1970 World Cup semi final, currently being shown on #BBC, is genuine football perfection.
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If generations of British students are anything to go by, #Neighbours is a potent soft power weapon.
Australia unleashes ‘Neighbours’ to counter China influence
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Remarkable technique and ingenuity! Jose sign them up!.
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Very pleased to see that @BookTV has aired this video discussion of Hitler's American Gamble ahead of the paperback publication this month. Thanks @nfergus & @HooverInst for hosting. Join us @warstudies on Wednesday 19th October for the British launch -
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It was a pleasure to join the dynamic duo of @SuzanneRaine2 and @aa51_ansari for the latest episode of their excellent podcast - check it out 👇.
New podcast! Five days that changed the world? Brendan Simms & @CharlieLaderman join @SuzanneRaine2 and @aa51_ansari to discuss their new book, Hitler's American Gamble. Listen now on Clip 👇
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This was a very pleasant surprise to wake to this morning! Thank you @BenjaminHett for engaging so thoughtfully with our book!.
My review of Simms and @CharlieLaderman, "Hitler's American Gamble," in the New York Times. Very interesting new book. The Decision That Cost Hitler the War
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