A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion

Jill Kastner is a London-based independent scholar and visiting fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She received her master’s in Soviet studies and doctorate in history from Harvard University, where she was a Krupp Foundation Fellow. She has written about Cold War crises in Berlin and the Middle East and contributed to The Nation and Foreign Affairs. She most recently served as executive editor of Hope and History: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times, by Ambassador William vanden Heuvel (2019).

William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He received his doctorate in political science from Yale University and before coming to Dartmouth taught at Georgetown University and Princeton University. He has held fellowships at the Institute of Strategic Studies at Yale, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and the Hoover Institution. His most recent books are America Abroad: The United States’ Global Role in the 21st Century (Oxford, 2018), with coauthor Stephen G. Brooks, and History of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century (2020), co-edited with Anatoly V. Torkunov and Boris F. Martynov.