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Date: April 18, 1997
Knorr Memorial Lecture Focuses
on the Cold War
Princeton, N.J. -- Sir Michael Howard, president of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, will speak on "The Cold War: A Personal Reconsideration" at Princeton University on Thursday, May 1, in 101 McCormick Hall, at 4:30 p.m.
Howard helped found the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in 1962. In addition to his appointment there, he is a fellow of the British Academy and a foreign corresponding member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A specialist in war studies, Howard was the Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University (1980-89) and then accepted the Robert A. Lovett Chair of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He retired from Yale in 1993.
Early in his teaching career, Howard began to specialize in the history of war and, in 1953, was appointed the first lecturer in war studies at King's College of the University of London. He then spent 10 years building up an independent department, and, in 1962, was promoted to professor of war studies. In the late 1960s, he moved to Oxford.
Professor Howard is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Lessons of History (1991), The Causes of War (1983), and War and the Liberal Conscience (1978). With Professor Peter Paret, he translated Carl Von Clausewitz' seminal work on strategic studies, On War , which is now the standard version in English. His awards include the NATO Atlantic Award (1989) and the Paul Nitze Award (1994) from the U.S. Center for Naval Analyses.
Professor Howard's address is the fifth in a series of annual Klaus Knorr Memorial Lectures, sponsored by Princeton's Research Program in International Security (RPIS). The lectures are named in honor of Klaus Knorr, director of Princeton's Center of International Studies from 1961 to 1968.
RPIS aims to encourage research on the causes, character, consequences, and control of inter- and intrastate conflict. The program's activities include providing financial assistance to graduate students writing dissertations in the field of security studies; supporting visiting fellows from other institutions who will spend a year in residence at Princeton; and sponsoring a series of research seminars and public lectures conducted by leading scholars and practitioners.