Vojtech Mastny (historian)

Vojtech Mastny(bornVojtěch Mastný;1936 inPrague,Czechoslovakia) is an American historian of Czech descent,professor ofpolitical scienceandinternational relations,specializing in the history of theCold War.He has been considered one of the leading American authorities on Soviet affairs.Mastny received hisPh.D.fromColumbia Universityand has been professor of history and international relations at Columbia,University of Illinois,Boston Universityand theJohns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies,as well as professor of strategy atU.S. Naval War College,Fulbright professorat theUniversity of Bonn,senior research scholar at theWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholarsand senior fellow at theNational Security Archive.He is the coordinator of theParallel History Project.In 1996-1998 he was the first researcher awarded Manfred Wörner Fellowship byNATO.Mastny's books includeContinental Europe under Nazi Rule,which won him the Clarke F. Ansley award in 1971,Russia's Road to the Cold War(1979),The Helsinki Process and the Reintegration of Europe(1992) andThe Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years,which won theAmerican Historical Association's 1997George L. Beer Prize.

Selected bibliography

• The Czechs Under Nazi Rule: The Failure of National Resistance 1939-1942.Columbia University Press, 1971.
• Russia's Road to the Cold War,(1979)
• The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: the Stalin years(1996)
• Mastny, Vojtech (2004)."Superpower Détente: US-Soviet relations, 1969–1972"(PDF).Bulletin of the German Historical Institute.Supplement 1: 19–25.
• A Cardboard Castle and inside History of the Warsaw pact 1955-1991(2005)
• Turkey Between East And West: New Challenges For A Rising Regional Power(2019)