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Susan E Colbourn

Susan E Colbourn

Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
susan.colbourn@duke.edu
Box 90316, Durham, NC 27708
302 Towerview Drive, 126 Rubenstein Hall, Box 90316, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Ideas, Influence, and Impact

Journal Article Diplomatic History · June 1, 2024 Full text Cite

Euromissiles The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO

Book · November 15, 2022 In Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe. ... Cite

Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945–1989, by Simon J. Moody

Book Review The English Historical Review · August 18, 2021 Full text Cite

An Interpreter or two: defusing NATO’s Siberian pipeline dispute, 1981–1982

Journal Article Journal of Transatlantic Studies · June 2020 Full text Cite

Debating détente: NATO’s Tindemans Initiative, or why the Harmel Report still mattered in the 1980s

Journal Article Journal of Strategic Studies · January 1, 2020 Scholars have long seen the Harmel Report as a significant moment in NATO’s history as the Western allies staked out a role for the Alliance in the pursuit of détente. This article examines how and why the Harmel Report’s parallel formula of defence and di ... Full text Cite

The Nuclear North Histories of Canada in the Atomic Age

Book · 2020 Should Canada belong to international alliances that depend on the threat of nuclear weapons for their own security? Should Canadian-produced nuclear technologies be exported? ... Cite

NATO-US Relations

Journal Article · February 25, 2019 On April 4, 1949, twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty: the United States, Canada, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Portugal, Italy, Norway, and Denmark. For the United States, the North Atlantic Trea ... Full text Cite

The Price of Alliance: The Politics and Procurement of Leopard Tanks for Canada’s NATO Brigade by Frank Maas

Book Review International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis · December 2018 Full text Cite