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TOP STORY: CWIHP and Its Partners Seek Greater Access to Albanian Cold War Files
For a report on CWIHP meetings in Tirana, see:
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=100143

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OTHER NEWS

CWIHP Advisory Committee Chairman William Taubman and CWIHP Senior Scholar Hope Harrison win American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Awards.

AAASS, the leading private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Russia, Central Eurasia, and Eastern and Central Europe, will present its annual awards on December 6, 2004, during the 36th National Convention held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. See:http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=100714.

Dr. Kathryn Weathersby joins the CWIHP team as a Senior Associate.

CWIHP welcomes Kathryn Weathersby to its team. For the past three years, Dr. Weathersby spearheaded the CWIHP Korea Initiative (funded by a grant from the Korea Foundation), which continues to collect, translate and disseminate documentation on North Korea. Most recently, she spent four months as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. A longtime contributor to the CWIHP Bulletin, Dr. Weathersby is an authority on the Korean War and North Korean foreign policy. At the Project, she will focus on Russia and Asia, especially Korea. She can be reached at weathersbyk@si.edu.

New Working Paper published.

CWIHP Senior Scholar Bernd Schaefer looks at the impact of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on the development of North Korean foreign relations in:"North Korean 'Adventurism' and China's Long Shadow, 1966-1972," CWIHP Working Paper No. 44. See: http://wwics.si.edu/topics/pubs/swp44.pdf. The CWIHP Korea Initiative publication was recently featured in the leading Korean daily Korea Times and on Radio Free Asia.

Based on new archival evidence, Balazs Szalontai reassesses Tsedenbal's Mongolia and the Communist Aid Donors.
See: http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=100451

Conference: The Impact of Western Broadcasting during the Cold War.

Theconference, held at the Hoover Institution on 13-15 October 2004, brought together some 50 scholars, archivists and former broadcast officials to discuss the effects of Western broadcasts based on new evidence from Russianand Central European archives. For a conference report by former VOA Deputy Director Alan Heil see:
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=100934

CWIHP seeks 2005 Spring Term interns.

For further information, contact Ms. Dee Beutel at beutelmd@si.edu or by phone at 202-691-4166. See
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=1272

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THE COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PROJECT (CWIHP) is a clearinghouse and research institute for international Cold War history based at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. CWIHP collects, translates, and publishes declassified documents from former Communist world and other archives. It supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" and other countries into Cold War historiography.

A tax-exempt public charity, the Cold War International History Project/Woodrow Wilson Center receives funding from the Korea Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and other donors.

For further information, please visit the CWIHP website:
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