Professor Andrew D. Grossman

My work emphasizes both historical research and analytical methods in an attempt to answer some of the broad questions concerning state-society relations, institutional change, and the long-term factors underlying contemporary national and international politics. In the broadest sense, my interest is in the relationship between war-making and state formation. Currently my area of research is focused on problems that are situated at the intersection of security studies, law, and public policy.  

I am currently working on two projects:  an article co-authored with Guy Oakes, The Origins of the Truman Loyalty Program Reconsidered: Institutional Developments and Political Contingencies. This essay considers the rationalization of internal security programs in the postwar 80th-82nd Congresses and its consequences for both political development and citizenship in the United States during the early Cold War.  

The second project considers the institutional roots of the Department of Homeland Security and the problem of balancing anti-terrorism, civil liberties, and civilian defense in the post-September 11, 2001 period.  This will be the topic of my second book. It is a comparative study of the internal security policies in United States, Great Britain, and Israel. This project examines two primary issues: war and state-building as it relates to the post-9/11 period; and, given that the DHS hopes to selectively institutionalize some  programs that are used in both Great Britain and Israel as tools for internal security, I am interested in examining what kind of public policy is possible in a robust federal republic such as the US.

Finally, I am involved in research (linked in many ways to the above) that is tied to my participation in the Social Science Council's (SSRC) program, "Reframing the Challenge of Migration and Security."  http://www.ssrc.org/programs/gsc/gsc_activities/migration/index.page

Books:

Neither Dead Nor Red: Civil Defense and American Political Development During the Early Cold War  (Routledge, 2001).

Selected Publications (articles):

The Early Cold War and American Political Development: Reflections on Recent Scholarship, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (Spring 2002)

Segregationist Liberalism: The NAACP and Resistance to Civil Defense Planning in the Early Cold War, 1951-1953, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (Spring 2000)

Atomic Fantasies and Make-Believe War: The American State, Social Control, and Civil Defense Planning, 1946-1952, Political Power and Social Theory 9 (1995)

Conference Report: Social Science History Association, International Labor and Working-Class History 48 (Fall 1995), with Kim Geiger

Preparing for Cold War: The Politics of Home-Front Mobilization, 1946-1952," Center for Studies of Social Change, The Working Paper Series, No. 202 (December 1994), with Kim Geiger

From Real War to Imaginary War: The American State, Civil Defense Plans, and the Home Front, 1946-1952," Center for Studies of Social Change, The Working Paper Series, No. 184 (April 1994)

"Managing Nuclear Terror: The Genesis of American Civil Defense Strategy," International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 5 (Spring 1992): 361-401, with Guy Oakes

Recent Conference Papers

"State Structure and the DHS:  The Hybridization of Disaster Planning and the Prospects for Homeland Security in the United States" Prepared for delivery at the 2006 joint meeting of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association and the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association, Tucson, AZ, 26-28 October 2006.

“The Paradoxes of Civilian Defense: Political Development and the Fate of Homeland Security in  the United States” Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the  American Political Science Association, August 30th-September 3, 2006.  Copyright by the American Political Science Association.

"External Shocks and Domestic Institutional Development:  U.S. Homeland Defense Policies in Comparative-Historical Perspective." With Fiona Adamson. Prepared for delivery at the 47^th Annual International Studies Association Convention, San Diego, CA, March 22-25, 2006

"The Fifth Column Tactic: Predatory Investigations and the Politics of Internal Security in the 80^th Congress." With Guy Oakes. Prepared for delivery at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2 - September 5, 2004