DAVID S. PAINTER
Associate Professor of History and Core Faculty, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign
Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-1954.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Published in the United Kingdom as Private
Power and Public Policy: Multinational Oil Corporations and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1941-1954.
London: I.B. Tauris, 1986.
The Cold War: An International History. London: Routledge, 1999. Published in Croatian as
Hladni Rat: Povijest Medunarodnih Odnosa. Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2002.
Origins of the Cold War: An International History. Second Edition. London: Routledge, 2005.
(Co-editor, Melvyn P. Leffler). First Edition, 1994.
“Oil and Geopolitics: The Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Cold War.” Historical Social Research
39 (2014): 186-208.
“From the Nixon Doctrine to the Carter Doctrine: Iran and the Geopolitics of Oil in the 1970s.” In
American Energy Policy in the 1970s, 61-92. Edited by Robert Lifset. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 2014.
“Oil and the October War.” In The Yom Kippur War: Politics, Diplomacy, Legacy, 173-93.
Edited by Asaf Siniver. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Published in the United
Kingdom as The October 1973 War: Politics, Diplomacy, Legacy (London: Hurst, 2013).
“Oil and the American Century.” Journal of American History 99 (June 2012): 24-39.
“Oil and Natural Resources.” Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol. 1: 486-507. Edited by
Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
“The Global Environmental Footprint of the US Military, 1783-2003.” (Co-Author, J.R. McNeill).
In War and the Environment: Military Destruction in the Modern Age, 10-31. Edited by Charles
E. Closmann. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2009.
“The Marshall Plan and Oil.” Cold War History 9 (May 2009): 159-75.
“A Partial History of the Cold War.” Cold War History 6 (November 2006): 527-34.
“Markets, Technology, and U.S. Foreign Policy.” Diplomatic History 29 (April 2005): 387-91.
“Oil.” In Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies of the Principal Movements and
Ideas, 2d ed. Edited by Alexander DeConde, Fredrik Logevall, and Richard Dean Burns. New
York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002.
“The End of the Cold War.” In A Companion to Post-1945 America. Edited by Jean-Christophe
Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. (Co-author).
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"Cold War." In Oxford Companion to United States History. Editor in Chief, Paul Boyer. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
"Cold War." In The Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations. Edited by Bruce Jentleson and
Thomas G. Paterson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
"Explaining U.S. Relations with the Third World." Diplomatic History 19 (Summer 1995): 52548.
"Oil and World Power." Diplomatic History 17 (Winter 1993): 159-70.
"International Oil and National Security." Daedalus 120 (Fall 1991): 183-206. Reprinted in
Raymond Vernon and Ethan B. Kapstein, eds. Defense and Dependence in a Global Economy.
Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1992.
"Oil and the Marshall Plan." Business History Review 58 (Autumn 1984): 359-83.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Oil and World Power. Book manuscript. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
The United States, Great Britain, and Mossadegh. Book manuscript. Under contract with the
University of North Carolina Press.
“Coal, Oil, and the Sinews of Imperial Power in the 19th and 20th Centuries.”
“Energy and US-Soviet Relations in the 1980s”
“Oil and the International History of the Twentieth Century”
RESEARCH AWARDS AND PROGRAMS DIRECTED
Visiting Research Fellow. Norwegian Nobel Institute. (February-July 2008).
Director, Master of Arts in Global, International, and Comparative History (2006-2007).
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, Georgetown University. (1998-2001).
SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES
“Supply, Demand, and Security in the Contemporary Petroleum Order.” Abdullah S. Kamel
International Symposium, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University,
February 2015.
“Energy and US-Soviet Relations in the 1980s.” International Conference, on Oil and Gas
Pipelines: New Perspectives on the Role of Soviet Energy During the Cold War. University of
Zurich, January 2015.
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“Oil and the International History of the Twentieth Century.” Mellon Sawyer Seminar. Boston
University. September 2014.
“Oil and Politics: The Oil Crises of the 1970s and Beyond.” Richard M. Krasno Lecture Series:
The U.S. in World Affairs: The Cold War and Beyond. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(October 2013).
”Oil and Geopolitics: The Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Cold War.” International Conference
on the Energy Crises of the 1970s as Challenges to the Industrialized World. Potsdam, Germany
(September 2013).
“Oil and the American Century.” Current Strategy Forum, Naval War College (June 2011).
“Oil and World Power.” Washington History Seminar, National History Center (November 2010).
“The Moral Equivalent of War? American Presidents and the Oil Crises of the 1970s.” Sears
Lecture, Purdue University (March 2010).
“Oil and the American Century.” IDEAS Seminar. London School of Economics (May 2008).
“The Importance of Oil in American Foreign Policy.” Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway
(September 2006).
“Oil and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Historical Perspective.” Critical Lectures in American Foreign
Policy. Earth Institute, Columbia University (December 2005).
“David vs. Goliath: Enrico Mattei and the ‘Seven Sisters:’ A Political and Economic Challenge.”
Enrico Mattei: Quarant’Anni Dopo, Acqualagna-Matelica, Italy (October 2002).
DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED
Packard, Nathan R. “The Marine Corps Long March: Modernizing the Nation’s Expeditionary
Forces in the Aftermath of Vietnam, 1979-1991.” (2014)
John Vincent Bowlus. “Connecting Midstream: The Politics and Economics of Oil Transportation
in the Middle East.” (2013).
Anand Toprani, “ “Oil and Grand Strategy: Great Britain and Germany, 1918-1941,” (2012).
Evelyn Frances Krache Morris, “Into the Wind: The Kennedy Administration and the Use of
Chemicals in Vietnam “ (2012).
Toshihiro Higuchi, “Radioactive Fallout, the Politics of Risk, and the Making of a Global
Environmental Crisis, 1954-1962” (2011).
Mary DuBois Sexton, “The Wages of Principle and Power: Cyrus R. Vance and the Making of
Foreign Policy in the Carter Administration” (2009).
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Daniel Byrne, “Adrift in a Sea of Sand: The Search for United States Foreign Policy Toward the
Decolonization of Algeria, 1942-1962” (2004).
John G. McGinn, “Balancing Defense and Détente in NATO: The Harmel Framework and the
1968 Crisis in Czechoslovakia” (2002).
Lisa E. Davenport, “Jazz, Race, and American Cultural Exchange: An International Study of U.S.
Cultural Diplomacy, 1954-1963” (2002).
Jeffrey F. Taffet, “Alliance for What? U.S. Development Assistance in Chile in the 1960s” (2001).
Richard F. Hill, “Pearl Harbor Month: Why the United States Went to War with Germany”
(2000).
Richard Dominic Wiggers, “Creating international Humanitarian Law (IHL): World War II, the
Allied Occupations, and the Treaties that Followed” (2000).
Rebekah C. Beatty Davis, “Development as a Tool of Diplomacy: The Domestic Models for U.S.
Policy in the Jordan River Valley, 1939-1956” (1999).
Mark David Sherry, “The United States Strategy for Containing China, 1949-1953 “ (1993).
CONTACT
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