Publications, Conference Papers & Works in Progress
William Glenn Gray / Purdue University

Germany's Cold War: The Global Campaign to Isolate East Germany, 1949-1969
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
[description and links]

Rejoining the Powers : German Ambitions in a Globalizing Era, 1963-1975
[book in progress: see project description (PDF)]

Articles

"'Number One in Europe': The Startling Emergence
of the German Mark, 1968-69"
Central European History 39, 1 (March 2006): 56-78

"West Germany and the Lost German East: Two Narratives"
(Forthcoming in Charles Ingrao, ed., The Germans and the East)
[introduction]

"Germans from Venus? The Out-of-area Problem in U.S.-German Relations"
(Forthcoming in Hermann Kurthen, Antonio Menendez, and Stefan Immerfall, eds.,
Safeguarding German-American Relations in the New Century)
[introduction (PDF)]

"Floating the System: Germany, the United States,
and the Breakdown of Bretton Woods, 1969-1973"
Diplomatic History (forthcoming in 2007)
[introduction (PDF)]

Recent Conference Presentations

"Weapons for the Weak? German Leadership
among the Non-Nuclear Powers"
Conference on Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, 1969-1974:
The European and Global Reponse
Columbus, Ohio, May 2006

"The Economic Miracle: Help or Hindrance
to German Unificiation?"
Workshop on Konrad Adenauer's legacy
Washington, DC, March 2006

"Toward a 'Community of Stability'? The Deutsche Mark
between European and Atlantic Priorities"
Conference on Atlantic Communities
Nashville, Tenn., September 2004
[introduction]

"War and Opportunism: East Germany and the Arab States in 1967"
State Department Conference on the 1967 War
Washington, DC, January 2004
[introduction]

"Cold War Idealism in West German Discourse:
From Central Europe to the Central African Republic"
American Historical Association (AHA),
Chicago, Illinois, January 2003
[synopsis]

"Scrambling for Africa: The ‘German-German’ Rivalry
South of the Sahara, 1958-1970"
German Studies Association (GSA),
San Diego, California, October 2002
[synopsis]

"West Germany's 'Stalingrad on the Nile':
Johnson, Erhard, and the Tanks-to-Israel Imbroglio"
SHAFR, Athens, Georgia, June 2002
[synopsis]