Marc Trachtenberg (born February 9, 1946) is a professor of

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

. He received his Ph.D. in history from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, in 1974 and taught for many years for the history department at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

before coming to

. Trachtenberg was a

Woodrow Wilson Fellow The Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) is a nonpartisan, non-profit institution based in Princeton, New Jersey that says it aims to strengthen American democracy by "cultivating ...

in 1966–1967, a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated d ...

in 1983–1984, a

German Marshall Fund The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a non-partisan American public policy think tank that seeks to promote cooperation and understanding between North America and the European Union. Founded in 1972, through a gift from the W ...

Fellow in 1994–1995, and an adjunct research fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Center for Science and International Affairs in 1986–1987. In 2000 he received the

American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world, claiming over 10,000 members. Founded in 1884, AHA works to protect academic free ...

's George Louis Beer Prize. He maintains a website dedicated to

Cold War The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...

research.

Works

* ''Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923'' (Columbia University Press, 1980). *''History and Strategy'' (Princeton University Press, 1991). *''A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement'', 1945-1963 (Princeton University Press, 1999). *
The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method
'(Princeton University Press, 2006). *''The Cold War and After: History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2012).

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Trachtenberg's Cold War studies website
1946 births University of California, Los Angeles faculty UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni Living people {{US-polisci-bio-stub American political scientists

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