Odd Arne Westad
Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and global modern history; professor of international history at the London School of Economics and author of works including The Global Cold War and The Cold War: A World History.
Books
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1. The Cold War
A World History
A sweeping global history that reframes the Cold War as more than a bipolar standoff in Europe, showing how superpower rivalry intersected with decolonization, national revolutions, and development conflicts across Asia, Africa, and Latin America; it traces the ideological, political, and military dimensions of the struggle from the postwar settlement through Korea, Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the eventual Soviet collapse, and emphasizes the agency of local actors and the conflict’s lasting effects on international order and development.
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2. The Global Cold War
Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
A sweeping reinterpretation of the Cold War as a truly global struggle in which superpower rivalry intersected with decolonization, nationalist movements, and local conflicts across Asia, Africa, and Latin America; it argues that Soviet, Chinese, and Western interventions, aid, and ideological competition shaped revolutions, proxy wars, state formation, and economic policies in the Third World, producing militarization, political polarization, and development trajectories whose consequences help explain many later conflicts and alignments.
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