![]() ![]() He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. ![]() But it will have served its purpose if it invites the reader to explore further the ways in which the Cold War made the world what it is today.Ībout the Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. In The Cold War, Westad offers a new perspective on a. In this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world. As a one-volume history it can do little but scratch the surface of complicated developments. Odd Arne Westad, Basic Books, September 2017. In Latin America it meant the increasing polarization of societies along Cold War ideological lines of division. This book attempts to show the significance of the Cold War between capitalism and socialism on a world scale, in all its varieties and its sometimes confusing inconsistencies. In China it meant a political and social revolution carried out by the Chinese Communist Party. It was about the defeat of Soviet-style Communism and the victory, in Europe, of a form of democratic consensus that had become institutionalized through the European Union. Abstract: The Cold War was about the rise and the solidification of US power. ![]()
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