Tag: history

• Can’t Historians Predict the Future?

  

  Nostradamus could have been a policy wonk. My favorite not-so-witty quip during my public talks is “historians are always asked to predict the future.”  It usually gets a chuckle.  I say it as a cop-out when someone asks me about anything controversial: the future of nuclear power, the future face of warfare, or whether Iran…

  Jacob Darwin Hamblin

  February 4, 2013

  Commentary

  arming mother nature, Cold War, environment, Henry Kissinger, history, IAEA, Iran, Naval Historical Center, NPT, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, public policy, Richard Armitage, Ronald Reagan, State Department Office of the Historian

• Where should historians send policy-relevant scholarship?

  Here’s a fairly mundane post but on a subject that I could use some advice about.  And I imagine it touches on a question that others face. It’s the holiday season and I am in limbo, with time to think about publication strategies and next steps in my academic life.  My book Arming Mother Nature is still…

  Jacob Darwin Hamblin

  December 20, 2012

  Commentary

  environmental history, environmental policy, history, history of public policy, history of science, policy history