About Christopher Dietrich

is assistant professor of history at Fordham University. He has written articles on the history of U.S. foreign relations, decolonization, and oil in Itinerario, Diplomacy & Statecraft, the International History Review, and CounterPunch. His first book manuscript is a transnational history of anti-colonial legal and economic thought from the early postwar era to the 1970s. It examines how subaltern elites from the oil-producing nations sought to rectify historical economic injustices through an intellectual and political program that emphasized state rights in international society.