Papers

A Changing of the Guard: Great Power Conflict in Post-Independence Congo

A fourth year undergraduate paper I wrote about the transfer of influence over the Congo from Belgium and Britain to the United States in the early 1960s.

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Setting Sun: The Dawn of the New Commonwealth

A research paper for my British Empire graduate course.  I look at the motivations underlying the negotiation of the Colombo Plan in 1950.  I tried to put the creation of the CP in the context of the decline of the British Empire, the emergence of an independent India, and the on-set of the Cold War.  I intend to write my Major Research Paper on this topic.

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