Dr Steve Casey
Biography
Publications
Steve Casey is Professor of International History at the LSE. He is author of numerous books and articles on the Second World War and Cold War.
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1947 and now
Strife in the Middle East, hyper-partisans in the US Congress, and Russian troops on the march. We've been here before.
Korea: Trump's nuclear bluster has just one precedent
The closest a US president has come to anticipating Trump's shockingly bellicose statement was Harry Truman, during the Korean War.
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For Trump, the Watergate analogies run deep
By taking on the FBI, Trump looks like repeating Nixon’s Watergate actions in ways that should truly alarm him – and hearten his opponents.
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Analyses
Obama alliances
In this Lowy Institute paper Dr Steven Casey explores the Obama administration’s approach to alliances as the United States experiences relative economic and military decline in…