Douglas Selvage
Professional affiliation
Wilson Center Projects
"Operation 'Pandemic': Bulgarian State Security, the East German Ministry for State Security, and the Soviet Bloc's AIDS Disinformation Campaign, 1983-1989"
Full Biography
Dr. Douglas Selvage is a Research Associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the . He prevously served as acting director for the historical research project, 鈥淭he GDR, the Ministry for State Security, and the CSCE Process, 1973-1989,鈥 in the Education and Research Division of the Office of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records in Berlin. He has published widely on the CSCE process, Polish-German relations under communism, and the history of the Soviet bloc. Previously, he also directed a grant project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to translate Warsaw Pact documents into English for the Parallel History Project (PHP) on Collective Security. From 2001-2006, he worked at the Historian鈥檚 Office of the U.S. Department of State, where his publications included Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976: European Security, 1969-76, and a co-edited joint publication with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Soviet-American Relations: The D茅tente Years, 1969-1972.
Major Publications
- 鈥淥peration 鈥楽ynonym鈥: Soviet-Bloc Active Measures and the Helsinki Process, 1976-1983,鈥 in Bu艀hak, W艀adys艀aw, and Friis, Thomas Wegener, eds., Need to Know: Intelligence and Politics. Western and Eastern Perspectives (Warsaw: Instytut Pami臋ci Narodowej, forthcoming 2013).
- The Superpowers and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1977-1983: Human Rights, Nuclear Weapons, and Western Europe,鈥 in Peter, Matthias, and Wentker, Hermann, eds., Die KSZE im Ost-West Konflikt: Internationale Politik und gesellschaftliche Transformation (1975-1990) (M眉nchen: Oldenbourg, 2012).
- Transforming the Soviet Sphere of Influence? U.S.-Soviet D茅tente and Eastern Europe, 1969-1976, Diplomatic History 33:4 (Sept. 2009), pp. 671-687.