Mary Nolan

Mary Nolan is Professor of History at New York University. Her research focuses on the Cold War, Americanization and anti-Americanism in Europe, and the history of human rights. She is the author of The Transatlantic Century: Europe and America, 1890–2010 (2012).


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The Rise and Fall of Internationalism

On February 5, 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell insisted to the UN Security Council that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that the UN must issue an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein to disarm or face attack. UN Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix countered that there was no smoking gun. After weeks of […]