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Whistleblowing Nation: The History of US National Security Disclosures

Hosted by the Department of International History

Zoom, United Kingdom

Speakers

Dr Kaeten Mistry

Dr Kaeten Mistry

Dr Hannah Gurman

Dr Hannah Gurman

Professor Andrew Preston

Professor Andrew Preston

Chair

Dr Roham Alvandi

Dr Roham Alvandi

Co-hosted by ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS Cold War Studies Project at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS

Book talk

The twenty-first century witnessed a new age of whistleblowing in the United States. Disclosures by Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and others have stoked heated public debates about the ethics of exposing institutional secrets, with roots in a longer history of state insiders revealing classified information. Bringing together contributors from a range of disciplines to consider political, legal, and cultural dimensions,  (Columbia University Press, 2020) is a path breaking history of national security disclosures and state secrecy from World War I to the present.

, Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia.

, Clinical Associate Professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

, Professor of American History, University of Cambridge.

Dr Roham Alvandi, Associate Professor of International History at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Director of the Cold War Studies Project at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS.

The  () teaches and conducts research on the international history of Britain, Europe and the world from the early modern era up to the present day.

Sponsored by the department's The Americas in World History and Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War research clusters.

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