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International Relations and Security Network

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Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies Institute for Strategy and Security Policy Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies The National Security Archive Center for Security Studies
 

Project Description

The PHP provides new scholarly perspectives on contemporary international history by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting formerly secret governmental documents. In response to the declassification of NATO records and the steadily growing availability of documents from archives in Eastern and Central Europe, PHP as a cooperative undertaking of more than twenty partner institutes brings together leading Cold War historians, archivists, and government officials. The findings are presented to the specialist academic community at conferences and published both in print and on the PHP website. For further information about the PHP, we invite you to read the project's brochure.

Since its establishment in 1999, the project has collected thousands of pages of material on security-related issues of the Cold War, published a large number of online documentaries on central issues such as mutual threat perceptions and alliance management, and organized several major international conferences on war planning, intelligence, and intra-bloc tensions.

Join the Project as a partner or an associate! For further information please contact Project Coordinator Vojtech Mastny.

Note: This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 4.5 or later versions. All documents are in PDF format. You will need to download and install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. Contents of this website Copyright 1999-2006 Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact. All rights reserved.If cited, quoted, translated, or reproduced, acknowledgement of any document's origin must be made as follows: "Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (PHP), www.isn.ethz.ch/php, by permission of the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich and the National Security Archive at the George Washington University on behalf of the PHP network."
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