Tim Naftali Associate
Professor, The
Impotence of Power: America's First Brush with Counterterrorism,
1968-1993  On the web
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by region, interest, audience, or type of program. For The Record Live Government and Public Policy Forums National Symposium Series Virginia Governors Project ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On the shelf Timothy Naftali's next books are entitled Khrushchev's Cold War (co-written with Aleksandr Fursenko) and The X-2 Solution: Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism from WWII to September 11th. John F. Kennedy: The Great Crisis, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. (Vol. 2 is co-edited with Philip Zelikow.) One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro & Kennedy, 1958-1964, with Aleksandr Fursenko, W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.Questions or comments? Please email the webmaster. Appearances Timothy Naftali was featured on the Diane Rehm Show NPR, Oct. 23,
2001, discussing the first in a series of transcriptions
of recently declassified recordings from the Kennedy White
House.
Timothy Naftali is associate professor and director of the Presidential Recordings Program and Kremlin Decision-Making Project. His research focuses on: the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the history of intelligence in Europe and America, the presidency of John F. Kennedy, and World War II and Nazi war crimes. Trained as a historian, Timothy Naftali writes political histories on the Cold War, World War II, and espionage. Before coming to the Miller Center, he was a visiting assistant professor at Yale University, where he taught courses on intelligence, International relations, and the Cold War in the Third World. Timothy Naftali directs the Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program. He oversees the team of scholars and staff responsible for transcribing thousands of hours of telephone conversations and meetings secretly recorded by Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in the White House. He also directs the Kremlin Decision-Making Project. In partnership with the Federal Archival Service of Russia, Naftali and the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs are translating, editing and publishing the international edition of the most secret materials of the Khrushchev-era. In this project, Timothy Naftali employs recently released Soviet, Central European, and Middle Eastern documents to reconstruct Soviet policymaking after the death of Stalin.
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