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Richard Ullman (1933-2014) was a scholar of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Ullman attended Harvard University for his undergraduate degree. He graduated from Harvard in 1955 and went on to earn his doctorate from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he was mentored by the historian and diplomat George Kennan. Ullman's thesis, Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1971, became the basis for a three-volume series that was his first major academic publication.
After first teaching at Harvard, Ullman became a faculty member at Princeton University in 1965, a position he would hold for over four decades. He served as acting dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1969 and as associate dean from 1968 to 1971. Ullman also spent some of his early career in the federal government, working for the National Security Council in 1967 and for the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1967 to 1968.
Ullman worked at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) from 1973 to 1979. During this time, he served as director of the Studies Department and was involved with the 1980s Project in several capacities, serving as director of the Project, chairman of the Coordinating Group, and as a senior fellow with the Project. In addition to his work at the CFR, Ullman was a member of The New York Times editorial board from 1977 to 1978 and the editor of Foreign Policy from 1978 to 1980.
Ullman worked for the Department of State from 1999 to 2000, where one of his main duties was serving as director of the Kosovo History Project. He became an emeritus professor at Princeton in 2002. Over his lifetime, Ullman authored hundreds of papers and articles on foreign policy.
Richard Ullman died on March 11, 2014 at age 80.
The Richard Ullman Papers document Ullman's career in the study of international relations and foreign policy, namely his service with the U.S. State Department and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and his work in academia. The collection contains records on Ullman's involvement with the CFR's 1980s Project and with the State Department's Kosovo History Project. The collection also includes materials related to Ullman's first major scholarly publication, the three-volume Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1971, as well as correspondence and subject files pertaining more generally to his later academic career.
Please see the series descriptions in the contents list for additional information about individual series.
The collection has been intellectually arranged into four series.
This collection was donated by Gail Ullman in January 2016. The accession number associated with this donation is ML.2016.002.
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This collection was processed by Rachel Van Unen in March 2016 at the time of accessioning. A folder list was created and all materials were described in a finding aid. Some materials were reboxed or refoldered, but no physical rearrangement was done at this time.
An unannotated copy of The Manufacture of Armaments by Philip Noel-Baker was returned to the donor.
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- Great Britain--Foreign relations
- International relations--20th century
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations
- United States--Foreign relations
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- Public Policy Papers
- Finding Aid Date
- 2016
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Collection is open for research use.
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Collection Inventory
These records are composed of mostly correspondence and subject files that were created in the course of Ullman's work as an academic, primarily at Princeton University, and in various other positions he held during his career, such as his term on the editorial board of The New York Times. The records also include some of Ullman's published articles and what appear to be notes and research prepared for lectures on European governments and foreign policies. Of note is Ullman's correspondence with well-known individuals in the field of foreign policy, particularly George Kennan.
Materials in this series remain in their original physical order as received from the donor.
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These records pertain to Ullman's involvement with the U.S. Department of State's Kosovo History Project. The materials include drafts of papers, notes, chronologies of events, State Department memoranda, and news clippings and publications related to the armed conflict in Kosovo, the history of the Balkans, and U.S.-Kosovo relations. The Kosovo materials also contain interview and oral history transcripts with U.S. State Department officials, military servicemen, and others. Additionally, there are three audio cassette tapes of interviews with Ullman on the Kosovo War and U.S. foreign policy toward Kosovo. Some documents pre- or postdate Ullman's tenure as director of the Kosovo History Project from 1999 to 2000.
Materials in this series remain in their original physical order as received from the donor.
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This portion of the collection relates to Ullman's work with the Council on Foreign Relations. The materials primarily document his work as director of the 1980s Project, an initiative that sought to promote public discussion on the issues that the international community would face in the 1980s. The Project records include organizational materials such as status reports, budgets, meeting schedules, and lists of commissioned papers. Agendas, reports, and other documents produced by the Project's following working groups are also included: the working groups on the North and South; Macroeconomic Policies and International Monetary Relations; International Trade; the Multinational Corporation; Environment, Global Commons, and Growth; Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction; Armed Conflict; Terrorism and Subversion; and Human Rights. To a lesser extent, the materials in this portion of the collection pertain to Ullman's other duties with the Council on Foreign Relations, such as his role as director of the Studies Department.
Materials in this series remain in their original physical order as received from the donor.
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This portion of the collection includes correspondence, reviews, and research materials that pertain to Ullman's first published scholarly work, the three-volume Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1971.
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