Steven Casey
Research Interest
Biography
Professor Casey is a specialist in U.S. foreign policy. His books include Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany, 1941-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2004), which explored American attitudes toward Nazi Germany during World War II; Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion, 1950-1953 (Oxford University Press, 2008; paperback 2010), which won both the Truman Book Award and the Neustadt Prize for best book in American Politics; and When Soldiers Fall: How Americans have Debated Combat Casualties, from World War I to the War on Terror (Oxford University, 2014) which also won the Neustadt Prize.
His new book, War Report, Europe: The American Media at War against Nazi Germany, was published in the US by Oxford University Press on 3 April 2017. The UK edition will be out in June 2017. Based on hundreds of manuscript collections, many of them previously untapped, it provides the first comprehensive account of how American war correspondents reported World War II.
Professor Casey studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of East Anglia before moving to Oxford where he completed an M.Phil and then D. Phil in International Relations. Between 1998 and 2001, he was a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at Trinity College, Oxford. He joined LSE in 2001.
In 2004-5, Professor Casey was the recipient of the Truman Scholar's Award. In 2006 he was awarded a Marshall/Baruch Fellowship. In 2008 he was one of the inaugural Visiting Fellows at the Australian Prime Ministers Centre in Canberra, as well as the Visiting Scholar at the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library in Perth, where he presented the annual Curtin Public Lecture entitled, 'A Missed Opportunity: The Curtin-Roosevelt Meeting and Australian-American Relations during World War II.' In 2009 he received a Mathew Ridgway Grant to research at the U.S. Military History Institute in Carlisle Pennsylvania. In 2010 he was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant, in 2011 a Moody Grant from the Lyndon Johnson Library, and in 2013 a Research Grant from the Eisenhower Foundation.
Courses
Professor Casey normally teaches the following courses:
At undergraduate level:
- HY116: International History since 1890 (taught jointly with other members of staff in the Department)
- HY311: Limited War during the Cold War Era: The United States in Korea and Vietnam
At postgraduate level:
Publications
Books
The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War Against Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
When Soldiers Fall: How Americans have Confronted Combat Losses, from World War I to Afghanistan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and the Press in the U.S., 1950-1953, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008; paperback 2010.
Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion and Nazi Germany, 1941-45, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2004.
Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2015 (co-editor with Jonathan Wright).
The Cold War: Critical Concepts. London: Routledge, 2013 (editor).
The Korean War at Sixty. London: Routledge, 2012 (editor).
Mental Maps in the Early Cold War Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2011 (co-editor with Jonathan Wright).
Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008 (co-editor with Jonathan Wright).
Articles and chapters
‘Confirming the Cold War Consensus: Eisenhower and the Election of 1952,’ in Andrew Priest and Andrew Johnstone, eds., Elections and American Foreign Policy, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, forthcoming.
‘The 1930s and the Road to War,’ in Oxford Research Encyclopedia in History, Oxford University Press, 2016.
‘When Congress Gets Mad,’ Foreign Affairs, 95 (January-February, 2016).
‘Reporting from the Battlefield: Censorship and Journalism,’ in Richard Boswell, Evan Mawdsley, and Joe Maoilo, eds., Cambridge History of the Second World War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
‘War Correspondents,’ in Dennis Showalter, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Military History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
‘The Media,’ in Dennis Showalter, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Military History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
'The United States,’ in James Matray and Donald W. Boose, eds., The Ashgate Companion to the Korean War, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.
‘Rhetoric and Style of Truman's Leadership,’ in Daniel S. Margolies, ed., A Companion to Harry S. Truman, Oxford: Blackwell, 2012.
‘Harry Truman, the Korean War, and the Transformation of U.S. Policy in East Asia, June 1950-June 1951,’ in James Matray, ed., The East Asia Legacy of Harry S. Truman, Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2012.
‘Obama’s Alliances,’ Lowy Institute Working Paper, 2011.
‘The Truman-MacArthur Controversy at Sixty,’Historically Speaking (2011), with William Stueck.
‘Harry S. Truman’s Mental Map,’ in Casey and Wright, ed., Mental Maps in the Early Cold War Era, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2011.
‘Wilfred Burchett and the UN Command's Media Relations during the Korean War,’Journal of Military History, 74, (2010).
‘Casualty Reporting and Domestic Support for War: The U.S. Experience during the Korean War,’Journal of Strategic Studies, 33 (2010).
‘Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Mental Map,’ in Casey and Wright, ed., Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008.
‘White House Publicity Operations during the Korean War, 1950-1951,’Presidential Studies Quarterly, 35 (December 2005).
‘Selling NSC-68: The Truman Administration and the Politics of Mobilization, 1950-51,’Diplomatic History, 29 (September 2005).
‘The Campaign to Sell a Harsh Peace for Germany to the American Public, 1944-48,’History, 90 (January 2005).
‘Propaganda in the Korean War,’ in Nicholas Cull, David Culbert, and David Welch, ed., Propaganda and Mass Persuasion, Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2003.
‘Red, White, and Bush,’ Foreign Policy, January-February 2002.
‘Franklin Roosevelt, Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl and the “S-Project,” 1942-44,’ Journal of Contemporary History, 35 (July 2000).