David Holloway, CISAC

David Holloway, PhD

  • Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies
  • Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History
  • Faculty member at the Center for International Security and Cooperation
  • Affiliated faculty at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
  • Affiliated faculty at The Europe Center

CISAC
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Stanford, CA 94305-6165

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Biography

David Holloway is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, a professor of political science, and an FSI senior fellow. He was co-director of CISAC from 1991 to 1997, and director of FSI from 1998 to 2003. His research focuses on the international history of nuclear weapons, on science and technology in the Soviet Union, and on the relationship between international history and international relations theory. His book Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (Yale University Press, 1994) was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 11 best books of 1994, and it won the Vucinich and Shulman prizes of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. It has been translated into seven languages, most recently into Chinese. The Chinese translation is due to be published later in 2018. Holloway also wrote The Soviet Union and the Arms Race (1983) and co-authored The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: Technical, Political and Arms Control Assessment (1984). He has contributed to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Affairs, and other scholarly journals.

Since joining the Stanford faculty in 1986 -- first as a professor of political science and later (in 1996) as a professor of history as well -- Holloway has served as chair and co-chair of the International Relations Program (1989-1991), and as associate dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences (1997-1998). Before coming to Stanford, he taught at the University of Lancaster (1967-1970) and the University of Edinburgh (1970-1986). Born in Dublin, Ireland, he received his undergraduate degree in modern languages and literature, and his PhD in social and political sciences, both from Cambridge University.

publications

Journal Articles
January 2016

The Soviet Union and the Creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency

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Journal Articles
August 2015

US-China Relations in the Shadow of the Future

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Books
August 2015

Stalin and Intelligence: Barbarossa and the Bomb (chapter)

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In The News

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya discusses the future of democracy in Belarus with a roundtable of Stanford scholars.
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Belarusian Leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Meets with Stanford Scholars for Roundtable on Democracy in Belarus

Democratic leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and her delegation joined an interdisciplinary panel of Stanford scholars and members of the Belarusian community to discuss the future of democracy in Belarus.
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Nuclear Summit
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CISAC experts command airwaves as Obama rolls out nuclear agenda

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Holloway START
Q&As

David Holloway weighs in on U.S.-Russian nuclear treaty slated for signing this week

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