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PhD History London School of Economics

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According to Wikipedia, Odd Arne Westad FBA is a Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. He is the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University, where he teaches in the Yale History Department and in the Jackson School of Global Affairs. Previously, Westad held the S.T. Lee Chair of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University, teaching in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Westad has also taught at the London School of Economics, where he served as director of LSE IDEAS. In the spring semester 2019 Westad was Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University.

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Odd Arne Westad's Published Works

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The global cold war: third world interventions and the making of our times (2005) (603)
The Cambridge History of the Cold War (2010) (199)
The history of the world (1976) (126)
The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad (2005) (117)
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 (2012) (79)
The New International History of the Cold War: Three (Possible) Paradigms (2000) (74)
Reviewing the Cold War : Approaches, Interpretations, Theory (2000) (72)
Brothers in arms: the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance, 1945-1963 (2000) (69)
Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950 (2003) (59)
The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (2003) (53)
The Penguin History of the World (2013) (34)
The cold war and the international history of the twentieth century (2010) (33)
The Third Indochina War: Conflict between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-79 (2006) (27)
The Cold War: A World History (2017) (27)
77 conversations between Chinese and foreign leaders on the wars in Indochina, 1964-1977 (1998) (24)
The Global Cold War: Notes (2005) (23)
Secrets of the Second World: The Russian Archives and the Reinterpretation of Cold War History (1997) (21)
The World Economy and the Cold War in the Middle of the Twentieth Century (2011) (20)
The fall of détente : Soviet-American relations during the Carter years (1997) (20)
Prelude to Invasion: The Soviet Union and the Afghan Communists, 1978–1979 (1994) (20)
Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War. (1994) (19)
Rethinking Revolutions: The Cold War in the Third World (1992) (17)
The Global Cold War: Acknowledgments (2005) (14)
The Chinese Communist Party and International Affairs: A Field Report on New Historical Sources and Old Research Problems (1990) (12)
Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944-1946 (1993) (11)
Losses,Chances, and Myths: The United States and the Creation of the Sino–Soviet Alliance, 1945–1950 (1997) (9)
Perforating the Iron Curtain. European Détente, Transatlantic Relations, and the Cold War, 1965-1985 (2010) (9)
The great transformation: China in the long 1970s (2010) (8)
How (Not) to Study the Origins of the Cold War (2013) (8)
A `New', `International' History of the Cold War? (1995) (8)
Why did the Cold War End in 1989? Explanation of ‘The Turn" (2001) (8)
Ending the Cold War in Korea: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives (2001) (7)
Beyond the Cold War : new dimensions in international relations : 90th anniversary Novel Jubilee Symposium (1993) (6)
Has a New Cold War Really Begun (2018) (6)
A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945. By Xiaoyuan Liu. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvi, 343 pp. $59-95, ISBN 0-521-55099-8.) (1997) (6)
Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917–1927 . By Bruce A. Elleman. [Armonk, New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. 342 pp. $72.95. ISBN 0-7656-0142-7.] (2000) (6)
Decisive Encounters (2003) (6)
Liberty or Death: The Cold War as US Ideology (2013) (6)
On Starting All Over Again: A Naïve Approach to the Study of the Cold War (2013) (5)
Bringing it Together: The Parts and the Whole (2013) (5)
The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945-89 (1994) (5)
Introduction: Reviewing the Cold War (2013) (3)
Transnational organizations and the Cold War (2010) (3)
The Crisis Years, 1958-1963 (2013) (3)
Zhang Baichun;, Zhang Jiuchun;, Yao Fang.Sulian ji shu xiang Zhongguo de zhuan yi: 1949–1966 [Technology Transfer from the Soviet Union to the People's Republic of China, 1949–1966]. Jinan: Shandong jiaoyu, 2005. (2010) (3)
East Central Europe, 1953–1956 (2010) (3)
Studying Soviet Strategies and Decisionmaking in the Cold War Years (2013) (2)
Devices and Desires: On the Uses of Cold War History (2006) (2)
Two Finales: How the End of the Third World and the End of the Cold War Are Linked (2012) (2)
Crises and détente (2010) (2)
Containing China? NSC-68 as Myth and Dogma (1999) (2)
Beginnings of the end: how the Cold War crumbled (2005) (2)
China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives (2017) (2)
The EU's Engagement with Asia (2014) (2)
The biosphere and the Cold War (2010) (2)
Executive Summary: Changing the European Debate–Focus on Climate Change (2014) (2)
China's Geoeconomic Strategy (2012) (2)
The Global Cold War: The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions (2005) (1)
Ironies and Turning Points: Détente in Perspective (2013) (1)
China's geoeconomic strategy: China’s international future (2012) (1)
Empire and Righteous Nation (2020) (1)
China and Southeast Asia (2012) (1)
China and the end of the Cold War in Europe (2017) (1)
Reflections on the Origins of the Cold War (2013) (1)
The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions (2005) (1)
Afghanistan: Perspectives on the Soviet War (1989) (1)
The Global Cold War: The Islamist defiance: Iran and Afghanistan (2005) (1)
The Global Cold War: The revolutionaries: anticolonial politics and transformations (2005) (1)
9. Faulty Learning and Flawed Policies in Afghanistan and Iraq (2011) (1)
Irresolute Princes: Kremlin Decision Making in Middle East Crises, 1967–1973 (review) (2000) (0)
Conclusion: Revolt, Intervention, and Cold War (1993) (0)
The Global Cold War: The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War (2005) (0)
Note on Transliteration and Terminology (1993) (0)
Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution. By Elizabeth McGuire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. viii, 462 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. $34.95, hard bound. (2019) (0)
Will the COVID-19 Crisis Change Global International Affairs? (2020) (0)
A Certain Idea of Science: How International Relations Theory Avoids Reviewing the Cold War (2013) (0)
Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949-1972 (2008) (0)
Identity Policy with Chinese Features (2021) (0)
Eight. Deng Xiaoping and the China He Made (2014) (0)
Reviews of Books (2002) (0)
Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict, 1956–1962 . By Ang Cheng Guan. [Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland, 1997. ix + 321 pp. £40.50. ISBN 0-7864-0404-3.] (1999) (0)
China and Korea: Dynamic Relations . By Chae-Jin Lee, in collaboration with Doo-Bok Park. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1996. x, 218 pp. $32.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). (1997) (0)
The Global Cold War: Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution (2005) (0)
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty. By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (New York, 2019) 576 pp. $32.00 (2020) (0)
8. Will China Lead Asia? (2018) (0)
The End of the Cold War: Its Meaning and Implications.@@@Beyond the Cold War: New Dimensions in International Relations. (1994) (0)
British – Soviet relations in the Cold War, 1945-1964 (2012) (0)
The Balkans: A Cold War Mystery (2017) (0)
Hegemonic power during the Cold War and beyond (2016) (0)
Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, by Lucien Bianco. Translated by Krystyna Horko. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2018. x+448 pp. US$65.00 (cloth). (2021) (0)
The Third World Revolutions (2021) (0)
The Book, the Bomb, and Stalin (1996) (0)
The Global Cold War: The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa (2005) (0)
New Foreword (2021) (0)
The Global Cold War: The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges (2005) (0)
Robert Service.Comrades! A History of World Communism.:Comrades! A History of World Communism (2008) (0)
Walter L. Hixson. The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2008. Pp. xi, 377. $35.00 (2010) (0)
XVI. Le christianisme et la transition occidentale (2018) (0)
China's Strategic Culture and the Cold War Confrontations (2013) (0)
Afghanistan: now you see me? (2009) (0)
Europe in an Asian century: Europe between the superpowers: China and Europe: opportunities or dangers? (2012) (0)
The Global Cold War: The 1980s: the Reagan offensive (2005) (0)
Beginnings of the end (2004) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
7. The Soviet Withdrawal and the Coming of the Civil War (1993) (0)
New Thoughts on World Orders (2001) (0)
Loans & Legitimacy: Evolution of Soviet-American Relations, 1919–1933 . By Katherine Siegel · Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. x + 211 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8131-1962-6. (1996) (0)
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (review) (2020) (0)
Introduction: the United States, the Dominican Intervention and the Cold War (2010) (0)
Robert Service. Comrades! A History of World Communism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 571. $35.00 (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (2021) (0)
Cold War & Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War (1993) (0)
Fred Wehling, Irresolute Princes:Kremlin Decision Making in Middle East Crises, 1967–1973. New York: St.Martin's Press, 1997. 225 pp. (2000) (0)
The United States and the Cold War Arms Race (2013) (0)
The wars after the war, 1945–1954 (2012) (0)
Introduction: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Bloc (1994) (0)
Reagan’s Anti-Revolutionary Offensive in the Third World (2004) (0)
2. The Jiang-Stalin Pact and the Collapse of Great Power Cooperation (1993) (0)
The Global Cold War: Introduction (2005) (0)
The Global Cold War: Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions, and great power collapse (2005) (0)
Afghanistan: now you see me?: introduction - addressing Afghanistan (2009) (0)
Introducing our series on the Dahrendorf Symposium 2013 (2014) (0)
O.A. Westad, The Cold War. A World History (2018) (0)
The Global Cold War: The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn (2005) (0)
Conclusion: The Third World in Latin America (2020) (0)
Struggles for modernity: the golden years of the Sino-Soviet alliance (2011) (0)
Legacies of the Past (2020) (0)

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