Chamberlin, Paul Thomas

Professor

Office Hours

Fall 2025: TBD

Education

Ph.D. – Ohio State University, 2009
M.A. – Ohio State University, 2005
B.A. – Indiana University, 2002

Interests and Research

Paul Chamberlin specializes in twentieth century international history with a focus on U.S. foreign relations. His most recent book is Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II (2025). He is also the author of The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (2018) and The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order (2012).

Courses

U.S. Foreign Relations 1775-1920
U.S. Foreign Relations 1920 to the Present
Readings in U.S. and the World
The Global Cold War

Awards

Oxford University Press International History Prize, 2010.
Fellow in American Foreign Policy at Williams College, 2009-10.
Fellow in International Security Studies at Yale University, 2008-09.
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Middle East Studies Center, Ohio State University, 2004-07.

Publications

Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II (New York: Basic Books, 2025)

"Beyond Americentrism: Thoughts on Internationalizing America and the World," in Roundtable "On Transnational and International History," The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 255–332.

The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (HarperCollins, 2018)

The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

“Schoenau and the Eagles of the Palestinian Revolution: Refugees, Guerillas, and Human Rights in the Global 1970s,” Cold War History (Jan. 2013).

“Rethinking the Middle East in the Cold War,” Roundtable Essay, International Journal of Middle East Studies (May 2011).

“The Struggle Against Oppression Everywhere: The Global Politics of Palestinian Liberation” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Jan. 2011).

“A World Restored: Counterrevolution, Religious Fundamentalism, and the Search for Order in the Middle East,” Diplomatic History, Vol. 32, No. 3 (June 2008) 441-469.

Editorial Activities

Co-editor of the book series "Cambridge Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations," with Cambridge University Press.

Member, Editorial Board, Diplomatic History (peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations), 2015-17.

Op-Eds

New York Times
Christian Science Monitor
Passport
Washington Post