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Books by Dr Martin D. Brown
The Bondian Cold War: The transnational legacy of a cultural icon, 2023
James Bond, Ian Fleming’s irrepressible and ubiquitous ‘spy,’ is often understood as a Cold Warri... more James Bond, Ian Fleming’s irrepressible and ubiquitous ‘spy,’ is often understood as a Cold Warrior, but James Bond’s Cold War diverged from the actual global conflict in subtle but significant ways.
That tension between the real and fictional provides perspectives into Cold War culture transcending ideological and geopolitical divides. The Bondiverse is complex and multi-textual, including novels, films, video games and even a comic strip, and has also inspired an array of homages, copies, and competitors. Awareness of its rich possibilities only becomes apparent through a multi–disciplinary lens.
This volume of essays inspired by that conference, suitable for students, researchers, and anyone interested in Cold War culture, makes vital contributions to understanding Bond as a global phenomenon, across traditional divisions of East and West, and beyond the end of the Cold War from which he emerged.
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Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that... more Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992–3. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and examine how Slovak national identity took shape with the codification of standard literary Slovak in 1843 and the subsequent development of the Slovak national movement. They show how, after a thousand years of Magyar-Slovak coexistence, Slovakia became part of the new Czechoslovak state from 1918–39, and shed new light on its role as a Nazi client state as well as on the postwar developments leading up to full statehood in the aftermath of the collapse of communism in 1989. There is no comparable book in English on the subject.
Read more at http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/european-history-general-interest/slovakia-history#juHiU5AKytbr3JSb.99
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The history of Anglo-Czechoslovak relations during the Second World War has generated much contro... more The history of Anglo-Czechoslovak relations during the Second World War has generated much controversy over the past sixty years. This book examines Britain’s relationship with the Czechoslovak émigrés based in London, led by Edvard Beneš, from the Foreign Office’s perspective. Using a wide range of materials, the author provides a rigorously post-Cold War analysis of British decision-making and policy formation on the Czechoslovak question between 1938 and 1945. He gives detailed consideration to tripartite relations with the Polish Government in exile, the Soviet Union, and the anti-fascist Sudeten German refugees in London led by Wenzel Jaksch. He also examines the British Government’s attempts to promote resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as the gradual evolution of proposals to remove the Sudeten German minority forcibly from Czechoslovakia after the war.
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The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon, 2023
James Bond is product. Realising potential profit was a key motivation for Ian Fleming when he cr... more James Bond is product. Realising potential profit was a key motivation for Ian Fleming when he created the character of 007a goal later shared by the official films' producers, Albert "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. There is nothing controversial in this statement; publishing, cinema, and commerce have had a long and well-documented relationship. 1 That said, explicit acknowledgement of the commercial imperatives driving the franchise forward,
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The CSCE and the end of the Cold War. Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990, 2018
Dr Angela Romano, ‘Executors or creative deal-makers? The role of the diplomats in the making of ... more Dr Angela Romano, ‘Executors or creative deal-makers? The role of the diplomats in the making of the Helsinki CSCE’, in S. B. Snyder & N. Badalassi (eds.), The CSCE and the end of the Cold War. Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990, Berghahn Books, New York, 2018, pp. 43-73
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Exile in London THE EXPERIENCE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND THE OTHER OCCUPIED NATIONS, 1939–1945 Exile in London 1 EDITED BY VÍT SMETANA AND KATHLEEN BRENDA GEANEY, 2018
Over the past 70 years rival historiographical interpretations of the forced removals have revolv... more Over the past 70 years rival historiographical interpretations of the forced removals have revolved around competing interpretations of the terms ‘expulsion’ and ‘transfer’. While the majority of sources on this subject have been produced in either Czech or German, it has been English-language works that have greatly expanded the parameters of this public debate since 1989. Such works now refer to the ‘expulsion’ of the Sudeten Germans and more recently to their ‘ethnic cleansing’ (avant le mot) and genocide.
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DIPLOMAATIA, 2017
The CSCE Final Act was primarily the achievement of diplomats, not politicians
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M. Rady and P. László (eds.), Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Hungary and Central Europe: Commemorating 1956, UCL SSEES, 2008, pp. 145-58, 2008
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History Today, Jan 1, 2004
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Radek Zurawski vel Grajewski (ed.), Rzady bez ziemi. Struktury wladzy na uchodzstwie , Jul 14, 2014
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The English Historical Review, Jan 1, 2010
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The Bondian Cold War: The transnational legacy of a cultural icon, 2023
James Bond, Ian Fleming’s irrepressible and ubiquitous ‘spy,’ is often understood as a Cold Warri... more James Bond, Ian Fleming’s irrepressible and ubiquitous ‘spy,’ is often understood as a Cold Warrior, but James Bond’s Cold War diverged from the actual global conflict in subtle but significant ways.
That tension between the real and fictional provides perspectives into Cold War culture transcending ideological and geopolitical divides. The Bondiverse is complex and multi-textual, including novels, films, video games and even a comic strip, and has also inspired an array of homages, copies, and competitors. Awareness of its rich possibilities only becomes apparent through a multi–disciplinary lens.
This volume of essays inspired by that conference, suitable for students, researchers, and anyone interested in Cold War culture, makes vital contributions to understanding Bond as a global phenomenon, across traditional divisions of East and West, and beyond the end of the Cold War from which he emerged.
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Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that... more Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992–3. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and examine how Slovak national identity took shape with the codification of standard literary Slovak in 1843 and the subsequent development of the Slovak national movement. They show how, after a thousand years of Magyar-Slovak coexistence, Slovakia became part of the new Czechoslovak state from 1918–39, and shed new light on its role as a Nazi client state as well as on the postwar developments leading up to full statehood in the aftermath of the collapse of communism in 1989. There is no comparable book in English on the subject.
Read more at http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/european-history-general-interest/slovakia-history#juHiU5AKytbr3JSb.99
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The history of Anglo-Czechoslovak relations during the Second World War has generated much contro... more The history of Anglo-Czechoslovak relations during the Second World War has generated much controversy over the past sixty years. This book examines Britain’s relationship with the Czechoslovak émigrés based in London, led by Edvard Beneš, from the Foreign Office’s perspective. Using a wide range of materials, the author provides a rigorously post-Cold War analysis of British decision-making and policy formation on the Czechoslovak question between 1938 and 1945. He gives detailed consideration to tripartite relations with the Polish Government in exile, the Soviet Union, and the anti-fascist Sudeten German refugees in London led by Wenzel Jaksch. He also examines the British Government’s attempts to promote resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as the gradual evolution of proposals to remove the Sudeten German minority forcibly from Czechoslovakia after the war.
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The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon, 2023
James Bond is product. Realising potential profit was a key motivation for Ian Fleming when he cr... more James Bond is product. Realising potential profit was a key motivation for Ian Fleming when he created the character of 007a goal later shared by the official films' producers, Albert "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. There is nothing controversial in this statement; publishing, cinema, and commerce have had a long and well-documented relationship. 1 That said, explicit acknowledgement of the commercial imperatives driving the franchise forward,
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The CSCE and the end of the Cold War. Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990, 2018
Dr Angela Romano, ‘Executors or creative deal-makers? The role of the diplomats in the making of ... more Dr Angela Romano, ‘Executors or creative deal-makers? The role of the diplomats in the making of the Helsinki CSCE’, in S. B. Snyder & N. Badalassi (eds.), The CSCE and the end of the Cold War. Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990, Berghahn Books, New York, 2018, pp. 43-73
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Exile in London THE EXPERIENCE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND THE OTHER OCCUPIED NATIONS, 1939–1945 Exile in London 1 EDITED BY VÍT SMETANA AND KATHLEEN BRENDA GEANEY, 2018
Over the past 70 years rival historiographical interpretations of the forced removals have revolv... more Over the past 70 years rival historiographical interpretations of the forced removals have revolved around competing interpretations of the terms ‘expulsion’ and ‘transfer’. While the majority of sources on this subject have been produced in either Czech or German, it has been English-language works that have greatly expanded the parameters of this public debate since 1989. Such works now refer to the ‘expulsion’ of the Sudeten Germans and more recently to their ‘ethnic cleansing’ (avant le mot) and genocide.
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DIPLOMAATIA, 2017
The CSCE Final Act was primarily the achievement of diplomats, not politicians
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M. Rady and P. László (eds.), Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Hungary and Central Europe: Commemorating 1956, UCL SSEES, 2008, pp. 145-58, 2008
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History Today, Jan 1, 2004
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Radek Zurawski vel Grajewski (ed.), Rzady bez ziemi. Struktury wladzy na uchodzstwie , Jul 14, 2014
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The English Historical Review, Jan 1, 2010
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![Research paper thumbnail of Desperackie lekarstwo". Brytyjskie Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych wobec kwestii sudetoniemieckiej"(październik 1938-grudzień 1945) ‘“A desperate remedy”: The British Foreign Office, Wenzel Jaksch and the ‘Sudeten German question’, 1938 to 1945’, Przegląd Zachodni, no. 2 (2008), 45-70. [In Polish]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/65131511/thumbnails/1.jpg)
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The English Historical Review, Jan 1, 2007
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Over the last decade the developing historiography on the CSCE has analysed many aspects of the H... more Over the last decade the developing historiography on the CSCE has analysed many aspects of the Helsinki Final Act, and almost every participating country’s policy. This scholarship has demonstrated that the CSCE was of major importance in most participating countries’ Cold War policy, and has revealed the amount of work foreign ministries dedicated to the Conference as well as direct involvement of top level government members in defining the CSCE’s objectives and strategies. However, this analysis stands in stark contrast with an earlier generation of literature on the CSCE, mostly produced by former diplomats, who claimed that it was the diplomats engaged in the CSCE negotiations who did most of the substantive work, and it was they who essentially ‘invented the Final Act’. Where does the balance lie, who was primarily responsible for the CSCE achieving a ‘successful’ outcome in 1975, politicians and officials at home or the diplomats negotiating on the ground?
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International Conference on Socialism and the Cold War in Western Europe Conference paper prop... more International Conference on Socialism and the Cold War in Western Europe
Conference paper proposal: Pro-détente versus anti-détente camps: British public opinion, foreign policy and the CSCE, 1969–1975.
On 1 August 1975 thirty-five delegations signed the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE). This agreement was the culmination of six years of consultations and proved to be the apogee of East-West détente. The onset of the CSCE also triggered fierce (if small scale) debates across Western Europe and North America: for some it represented the craven appeasement of the Soviet Bloc, while for others it was a necessary re-ordering of the post-war security architecture. Although the finalisation of the Act favoured the ‘pro-détente’ camp, over the medium term it proved to be the ‘anti-détente’ camp which was in the ascendancy. By the early 1980s Anglo-American support for détente had largely evaporated, a position clearly expressed by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The American side of these developments have been studied extensively (Eugene R. Wittkopf, 1990; Sarah B. Snyder, 2010), but the public debates in Britain, and its potential influence on foreign policy has been overlooked.
This paper proposes to examine the influence of British public opinion on foreign policy during the era of détente. A variety of politicians, government institutions, media outlets and interest groups from across the political spectrum attempted to ‘activate’ British public opinion in support of, or in opposition to the CSCE, with negligible results. Research in various archives and interviews with participants indicates that the extended and intricate nature of the CSCE process failed to generate sufficient political capital or capture the general public’s interest. Counter-intuitively it would appear that the Cold War was not the preeminent concern for the British public during the early to mid-1970s, especially when compared to interest in the European Community and the situation in Northern Ireland. The shift in policy was therefore the result of the political elite’s re-positioning rather than that of the general population.
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"A Munich Winter or a Prague Spring? British Policy toward Sudeten Germans, September 1938 to Sep... more "A Munich Winter or a Prague Spring? British Policy toward Sudeten Germans, September 1938 to September 1939"
(Tuesday 31 July, 4:00 pm)
British foreign policy toward Sudeten Germans lacked a clear definition, and changed dramatically after British authorities became responsible for a flood of Anti-Henleinist German refugees.
"Recognizing 'East' and 'West': British Foreign Policy and the GDR during the Helsinki Process, 1970-1975"
(Friday 3 August, 4:00 pm)
British recognition of Central European frontiers converged with Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik policy.
"Setting Europe Ablaze? The Special Operations Executive and the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile."
(Tuesday 14 August 4:00 noon)
This paper details the historiography of the Special Operations Executive, created in 1940 to 'set Europe ablaze.' It examines the organisation’s strategic objectives, and explores SOE’s relations with the Czechoslovak Government-in-exile, led by Edvard Beneš.
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War Room , 2023
Born in the midst of the Cold War, James Bond was often considered the consummate Cold Warrior. B... more Born in the midst of the Cold War, James Bond was often considered the consummate Cold Warrior. But within the 14 original novels, 9 short stories, 40 continuation novels, 10 Young Bond novels and 25 movies to date, the fictional reflection of the struggles between the West and the Soviet Union was far more complex than reality. Martin Brown and Ron Granieri are guests in the studio to discuss their new book, The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon. Martin and Ron, along with their fellow editor, Muriel Blaive, who wasn’t able to attend this gathering, have written and gathered a volume of essays that examine the Bondiverse. They join host Gen Lester to discuss the impact 007 has had on the entertainment world, the culture war, and the very real worlds of espionage and diplomacy.
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Fallout , 2023
Fallout chats with Dr Martin D. Brown in 3 parts due to atmospheric interventions. Part one is he... more Fallout chats with Dr Martin D. Brown in 3 parts due to atmospheric interventions. Part one is here with the discussion about James Bond and the Cold War.
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Přítomnost, 2023
Kdykoliv se vrací dr. Martin D. Brown k některé z krizí české státnosti ve 20. století, doporučuj... more Kdykoliv se vrací dr. Martin D. Brown k některé z krizí české státnosti ve 20. století, doporučuje českým čtenářům a posluchačům, aby se oprostili od povýtce národního pohledu a česká selhání či „selhání” chápali v širším evropském pohledu. Doberou se tak snáze katarze, které se části české intelektuální elity a jejímu diskursu nedostává.
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Eesti Päevaleht, 2022
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The Global Agora, 2021
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In this episode, we welcome Dr Martin D. Brown. Dr Brown is Associate Professor of International ... more In this episode, we welcome Dr Martin D. Brown. Dr Brown is Associate Professor of International History at Richmond University in London. He previously worked as the Lead Researcher, Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia. As you will soon learn, this episode is all about James Bond. While Dr Brown’s main area of research is the Cold War and Diplomatic History, he as has a strong interest in Bond and the world around one of fiction’s most famous characters. In the episode we explore Bond novels (Ian Fleming’s ones and beyond), the field of 'bondology' and the cultural turn in intelligence studies, the symbiotic relationship between fiction and international politics, and, of course, the popularity of Bond and its consequences. As usual the episode concludes with some book recommendations. I hope you enjoy the show.
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Wavell Room
In Phil Clare’s recent Wavell Room article on General Hackett’s ‘future history’ book The Third W... more In Phil Clare’s recent Wavell Room article on General Hackett’s ‘future history’ book The Third World War, he compared and contrasted the UK military’s ability to fight a conventional war against Russia. He highlighted that many of the factors which contributed to the military successes portrayed in the 1970s techno-thriller are notably absent today. Hackett’s works remains relevant, but the book’s legacy is not simply limited to military affairs, or as a warning about the utility of conventional military build-up to counter Soviet/Russian aggression. Although Clare explicitly steered away from analysing and reviewing Hackett’s work, I want to argue the book is at its heart a politically motivated piece of popular propaganda, set within the 1970s political debate about the merits of détente.
https://wavellroom.com/2020/01/09/why-the-future-of-history-still-matters-an-addendum/
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Geopolitics and Security , 2019
James Bond's Cold War M DR Brown on Bond's geopolitical ambiguities across literature and film
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Times Higher Eductaion , 2018
Positively shocking: using James Bond to teach liberal arts Bondologist Martin D. Brown says the ... more Positively shocking: using James Bond to teach liberal arts
Bondologist Martin D. Brown says the complex Bondian universe can be used to teach students about modern international history
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Europe faces a clear and present danger. NATO and the Russian Federation are facing off in the ea... more Europe faces a clear and present danger. NATO and the Russian Federation are facing off in the eastern Baltic. Rival forces are being mustered across increasingly militarised borders, and eyes are turned to possible flash-points in Kaliningrad and the Suwalki Gap. Russian cyber commandoes have hacked US politics, allegedly helping to secure the Presidency for their preferred candidate Donald Trump. In turn Trump, who is also accused by some of being a fascist, appears amenable to the appeasement of the Kremlin even after its aggressive interventions in Crimea, Ukraine and Syria. Moscow's populist allies are in the ascendancy across Europe, NATO's critically underfunded and a post-Brexit EU teeters on the verge of crisis.
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The Second World War exerts a peculiar hold over filmmakers. Although we’re half-way through the ... more The Second World War exerts a peculiar hold over filmmakers. Although we’re half-way through the centenary of the Great War, and fifteen years into the post-9/11 ‘forever war’ on terror, it’s the 1939-45 conflict that continues to fascinate. Unsurprisingly, the legacy of this period remains bitterly contested
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Apparently it’s 1975 all over again: another referendum on British membership of the EU looms and... more Apparently it’s 1975 all over again: another referendum on British membership of the EU looms and a ‘New Cold War’ is underway with Russia.
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The Ukraine crisis dramatically raised the profile of the Organisation for Security and Cooperati... more The Ukraine crisis dramatically raised the profile of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), with the OSCE playing a role in discussions between Russia, Europe and the United States. It also provided an opportunity for the organisation to demonstrate its continued relevance to European security, forty years after the signing of the so called ‘Helsinki Final Act’ in 1975, which served as the foundation for the establishment of the OSCE. Martin D. Brown and Angela Romano provide an overview of the significance of the Final Act, its original aims and how its contents shaped future security developments up to the present day.
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EUROPP – European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics., Jun 25, 2015
Earlier this month the Czech and Slovak governments criticised the airing of a Russian documentar... more Earlier this month the Czech and Slovak governments criticised the airing of a Russian documentary on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, with the Slovak ministry of foreign affairs describing it as an attempt ‘to rewrite history’. Martin D. Brown writes that while the documentary was undoubtedly flawed, the diplomatic spat was symptomatic of a situation in which Russia has increasingly adopted a resolutely Soviet view of history, while post-Soviet states have supported the construction of a consciously anti-Soviet history built around the concept of totalitarianism. He argues that there is little to gain from EU states rewriting their own past simply to counter the Russian narrative.
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The latest spy flick piggybacks on its patriarch, demonstrating yet again the reach of brand Bond.
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