CATHERINE WU

In this collaborative project, we aim to use historical cases of multilateral crisis management - from interwar Austria and post-WWII China to humanitarianism and global migration policy, Kashmir, the Middle East, the Congo, and East Pakistan during the Cold War - to help experts and policymakers assess more accurately the chances and risks of foreign involvement - and of non-involvement. Moreover, we intend to promote socially relevant interdisciplinary research by bringing international historians into dialogue with scholars of international relations, international law, security studies, and peace and conflict studies... We intend to use multi-archival research to explore not just the publicly-visible aspects of past multilateral conflict management but also the planning, decision-making, and actions that were hidden from the view of contemporaries. This approach will allow us to draw a more complete picture of these cases, which in turn will form a thorough empirical basis for a..