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About Grant Golub
My name is Grant Golub and I'm an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD candidate in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). My dissertation looks at Henry Stimson, the War Department, and the politics of American grand strategy during World War II. More broadly, my research interests include the history of U.S. foreign policy, grand strategy, nuclear history, and Anglo-American relations. I'm originally from Sarasota, Florida. I completed my BA in History and American Studies from Princeton University and I have an MSc in the History of International Relations from LSE. I'm also a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center, a Junior Fellow with the International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network, and a Fellow at Defense Priorities, a Washington, DC foreign policy think tank.NBN Episodes hosted by Grant:
March 14, 2023
Euromissiles
In Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO (Cornell UP, 2022), Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and…
February 28, 2023
Confronting Saddam Hussein
America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era. Nearly two dec…
February 21, 2023
Improbable Diplomats
In 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger;…
February 5, 2023
US-Egypt Diplomacy Under Johnson
What happens to policies when a president dies in office? Do they get replaced by the new president, or do advisers carry on with the status quo? In N…
January 31, 2023
Petroleum and Progress in Iran
From the 1940s to 1960s, Iran developed into the world's first “petro-state,” where oil represented the bulk of state revenue and supported an industr…
January 28, 2023
The Struggle for Iran
Beginning with the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in spring 1951 and ending with its reversal following the overthrow of Prime Minister M…
December 14, 2022
The Peacemaker
With decades of hindsight, the peaceful end of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, most experts believed the Soviet Unio…
December 1, 2022
The Nuclear Club
The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam (Stanford UP, 2022) reveals how a coalition of powerful and dev…
September 28, 2022
Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations
Ideology drives American foreign policy in ways seen and unseen. Racialized notions of subjecthood and civilization underlay the political revolution …
December 8, 2021
Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights
Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 2020) traces the role of human rights concerns in US forei…
November 24, 2021
Unconditional
Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender forma…
October 7, 2021
Israelpolitik
The rapprochement between Germany and Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust is one of the most striking political developments of the twentieth cen…
September 14, 2021
The Picky Eagle
The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U. S. Territorial Expansion (Cornell UP, 2020) explains why the United States stopped annexing t…
September 14, 2021
Rethinking American Grand Strategy
What is grand strategy? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought--what, in other words, makes it "grand"?…
August 20, 2021
The Regime Change Consensus
Why did the United States invade Iraq, setting off a chain of events that profoundly changed the Middle East and the US global position? In The Regime…
July 16, 2021
Engaging the Evil Empire
In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2020) dram…