Alexander Naoumov

Academic Year: 
2003-04
Direction: 
To Yale
Exchange Partners: 
Moscow State University
Research Interest: 
The Crisis of the Versailles System of Int'l Relations

Using the tools of history and international relations theory, a particularly dynamic field of study in Russia, Mr. Naoumov will conduct a comprehensive study of the Versailles model of international relations, its character and dynamics of development. He hopes to research, in depth, the mechanisms of this model and its consequences. For the first time in Russian historiography, Mr. Naoumov will attempt to develop a theoretical explanation for how such differing and unique events, e.g. the civil war in Spain, Anschluss and the Munich Agreement, were in fact so interconnected in the aggregate that they led to the crisis of and disintegration of the Versailles system. Mr. Naoumov will use Yale s abundant library resources and consult primary sources, diplomatic and parliamentary documents from the period , and documents of the League of Nations.