Odd Arne Westad
Biographic Data
| ID | 1029295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Odd Arne Westad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Odd Arne |
| FAMILY NAME | Westad |
| SIGNATURE | WESTAD O A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian Nobel Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day
Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Curiously, both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic resilience from democratic fragility by focusing on the latter. The volume’s collaborators—experts in the history and politics of the societies covered in their chapters—explore eleve…
The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history “Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes the multiple paths, ideas and possibilities that have shaped, and continue to shape, China’s present.”—Julia Lovell, Financial Times Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s …
Geir Lundestad (1945–2023): Et liv i internasjonale relasjoner
Interview: Odd Arne Westad and Edward Knudsen
This interview between Odd Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History at Yale University, and Edward Knudsen covers Professor Westad’s extensive scholarship on global history, reaching from the Cold War to present politics. They discuss the links between the Cold War and current geopolitical tensions, exploring how relations between the US, China, and Russia have evolved since the 20th Century
The Cold War: A World History
Will the Covid-19 Crisis Change Global International Affairs
Essay| September 16 2020 Will the COVID-19 Crisis Change Global International Affairs? Collections: Special Collection: The Great Questions of Our Time and the Future of the Liberal Order , Section: Politics, Governance, and the Law Odd Arne Westad Odd Arne Westad 1Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar 1.[email protected] Global Perspectives (20…
Lenin
Lenin was a Marxist revolutionary who saw himself, and his organization, the Bolsheviks, as the vanguard of the global working class. His view of the world was based on what he saw as the unavoidable confrontation of opposing forces in world politics, socialism vs. capitalism. In his policies he was relentlessly internationalist, even though he was quite capable of temporary compromise on behalf of the Soviet state, which was based within the for…
The Weight of the Past in China’s Relations with Its Asian Neighbors
Historically, regional power shifts have tended to be messy affairs. Such changes often produced not only wars, but long, drawn-out forms of conflict that devastated the regions in which they occurred. With the exception of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, none of these power-shift conflicts have yet been truly global, and it is unlikely that the rivalry between the United States and China will spill over into a global…
China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives
China and the end of the Cold War in Europe
The journal is lucky to have gathered a set of outstanding articles on the relationship between the Chinese leadership under Deng Xiaoping and European governments towards the end of the Cold War e
Storia della guerra fredda: L'ultimo conflitto per l'Europa
Storia della guerra fredda: l'ultimo conflitto per l'Europa." Cold War History, 12(4), pp. 705–706
The Cambridge History of the Cold War
Volume III of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the evolution of the conflict from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 until the Soviet collapse in 1991. A team of leading scholars analyzes the economic, social, cultural, religious, technological and geopolitical factors that ended the Cold War and discusses the personalities and policies of key leaders such as Brezhnev, Reagan, Gorbachev, Thatcher, Kohl and Deng Xiaoping. The authors sh…
The Cambridge History of the Cold War
Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. A team of leading scholars explains how the Cold War seemed to stabilize after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and how this sense of increased stability evolved into the détente era of the early 1970s. The authors outline how conflicts in the Third World, as well as the interests and …
L'année où le monde a basculé
Pierre Grosser, Paris, Perrin, 2009, 605 pp Pierre Grosser's new book is a first-rate addition to the literature on the end of the Cold War. Its main strength is the global coverage and the author
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…
Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949-1972 . Yafeng Xia
The Third Indochina War: Conflict Between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-79
Devices and Desires: On the Uses of Cold War History
As the historical study of the Cold War has meandered along over the past 15 years, those of us who have meandered with it have often asked when we would come to a crossroads, when we would encount
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the …
Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950
The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance and scope—its battles were the largest military engagements since World War II—until now remarkably little has been known about the war, and even less about its effects on the societies that suffe…
New Thoughts on World Orders
The New International History of the Cold War: Three (Possible) Paradigms
The Cold War is not what it once was. Not only has the conflict itself been written about in the past tense for more than a decade, but historians’ certainties about the character of the conflict have also begun to blur. The concerns brought on by trends of the past decade – such trifles as globalization, weapons proliferation, and ethnic warfare – have made even old strategy buffs question the degree to which the Cold War ought to be put at the …
Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963
This volume brings together young scholars from China, Russia, the United States, and Europe who, drawing on much newly available documentation, analyze the complicated and often stormy history of the Sino-Soviet relationship from World War II to the 1960s. This volume should be considered a first assessment of massive amounts of new information, providing new insights and many reevaluations of the various aspects of the alliance between China an…
Secrets of the Second World: The Russian Archives and the Reinterpretation of Cold War History
Journal Article Secrets of the Second World: The Russian Archives and the Reinterpretation of Cold War History Get access Odd Arne Westad Odd Arne Westad Nobel Insitute, Oslo, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 21, Issue 2, April 1997, Pages 259–271, https://doi.org/10.1111/0145-2096.00068 Published: 17 December 2002
Losses,Chances, and Myths: The United States and the Creation of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1950
Journal Article Losses, Chances, and Myths: The United States and the Creation of the Sino–Soviet Alliance, 1945–1950 Get access Odd Arne Westad Odd Arne Westad Norwegian Nobel InstituteUniversity of Oslo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 105–115, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00055 Published: 17 December 2002
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the …
Prelude to Invasion: The Soviet Union and the Afghan Communists, 1978–1979
Rethinking Revolutions: The Cold War in the Third World
The article critiques recent research on the foreign policies of late 20th-century revolutionary movements, and attempts to identify some basic elements in the ideology and organization of these policies. The author finds the search for foreign great power allies to be a vital element in the foreign policy practice of revolutionaries, and seeks to analyze how Great Power interests and local revolutionary aspirations interplayed in different cases…
Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944-1946
Journal Article Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944–1946. By Odd Arne Westad. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xiv, 260 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-231-07984-2. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-231-07985-0.) Get access Thomas A. Breslin Thomas A. Breslin Florida International University, Miami, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Amer…
A `New', `International' History of the Cold War
Taking as its point of departure the recent openings of Soviet, east European and Chinese archives, the article discusses present and future directions in Cold War historiography. While a `realist' approach, in different forms, still dominates the field, a closer look at some recent publications indicates an emerging criticism of realism, both in terms of historical analyses and in terms of research orientation. This is particularly true of schol…
Rethinking Revolutions: The Cold War in the Third World
The article critiques recent research on the foreign policies of late 20th-century revolutionary movements, and attempts to identify some basic elements in the ideology and organization of these policies. The author finds the search for foreign great power allies to be a vital element in the foreign policy practice of revolutionaries, and seeks to analyze how Great Power interests and local revolutionary aspirations interplayed in different cases…
Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944–1946
Describes the way political development in China influenced the diplomatic and military rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union in East Asia at the end of World War II and the effect Soviet-American rivalry had on the struggle for political power in China. Uses a four-cornered pattern of analysis, giving equal importance to explaining the perceptions and actions of each party -- the Chinese Communist Party, the Kuomintang of China, the…
Cold War & Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War
Prelude to Invasion: The Soviet Union and the Afghan Communists, 1978–1979
The End of the Cold War: Its Meaning and Implications
Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944-1946
Journal Article Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944–1946. By Odd Arne Westad. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xiv, 260 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-231-07984-2. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-231-07985-0.) Get access Thomas A. Breslin Thomas A. Breslin Florida International University, Miami, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Amer…
Stepping Back: Nuclear Arms Control and the End of the Cold War
Journal Article Stepping Back: Nuclear Arms Control and the End of the Cold War. By William B. Vogele. (Westport: Praeger, 1994. xiv, 166pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-275-94644-4.) Get access Odd Arne Westad Odd Arne Westad Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 855–856, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082412 Published: 01 Septembe…
A `New', `International' History of the Cold War
Taking as its point of departure the recent openings of Soviet, east European and Chinese archives, the article discusses present and future directions in Cold War historiography. While a `realist' approach, in different forms, still dominates the field, a closer look at some recent publications indicates an emerging criticism of realism, both in terms of historical analyses and in terms of research orientation. This is particularly true of schol…
The Book, the Bomb, and Stalin
One afternoon about three years ago, I was sitting in an office in Moscow looking at some big, red leather binders containing Stalin's letters, which had just been transferred to the archives from the Kremlin. I remember thinking that with these materials–and others like them–we would be in for a rewriting not just of Soviet history, but of contemporary international history as well. For the first time ever historians would be able to look in det…
Secrets of the Second World: The Russian Archives and the Reinterpretation of Cold War History
Journal Article Secrets of the Second World: The Russian Archives and the Reinterpretation of Cold War History Get access Odd Arne Westad Odd Arne Westad Nobel Insitute, Oslo, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 21, Issue 2, April 1997, Pages 259–271, https://doi.org/10.1111/0145-2096.00068 Published: 17 December 2002
Losses,Chances, and Myths: The United States and the Creation of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1950
Journal Article Losses, Chances, and Myths: The United States and the Creation of the Sino–Soviet Alliance, 1945–1950 Get access Odd Arne Westad Odd Arne Westad Norwegian Nobel InstituteUniversity of Oslo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 105–115, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00055 Published: 17 December 2002
A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945
Journal Article 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.) Get access Odd Arne Westad Odd Arne Westad Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84…
The New International History of the Cold War: Three (Possible) Paradigms
The Cold War is not what it once was. Not only has the conflict itself been written about in the past tense for more than a decade, but historians’ certainties about the character of the conflict have also begun to blur. The concerns brought on by trends of the past decade – such trifles as globalization, weapons proliferation, and ethnic warfare – have made even old strategy buffs question the degree to which the Cold War ought to be put at the …
Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963
This volume brings together young scholars from China, Russia, the United States, and Europe who, drawing on much newly available documentation, analyze the complicated and often stormy history of the Sino-Soviet relationship from World War II to the 1960s. This volume should be considered a first assessment of massive amounts of new information, providing new insights and many reevaluations of the various aspects of the alliance between China an…
New Thoughts on World Orders
Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950
The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance and scope—its battles were the largest military engagements since World War II—until now remarkably little has been known about the war, and even less about its effects on the societies that suffe…
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the …
The Third Indochina War: Conflict Between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-79
Devices and Desires: On the Uses of Cold War History
As the historical study of the Cold War has meandered along over the past 15 years, those of us who have meandered with it have often asked when we would come to a crossroads, when we would encount
Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949-1972 . Yafeng Xia
The Cambridge History of the Cold War
Volume III of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the evolution of the conflict from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 until the Soviet collapse in 1991. A team of leading scholars analyzes the economic, social, cultural, religious, technological and geopolitical factors that ended the Cold War and discusses the personalities and policies of key leaders such as Brezhnev, Reagan, Gorbachev, Thatcher, Kohl and Deng Xiaoping. The authors sh…
The Cambridge History of the Cold War
Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. A team of leading scholars explains how the Cold War seemed to stabilize after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and how this sense of increased stability evolved into the détente era of the early 1970s. The authors outline how conflicts in the Third World, as well as the interests and …
L'année où le monde a basculé
Pierre Grosser, Paris, Perrin, 2009, 605 pp Pierre Grosser's new book is a first-rate addition to the literature on the end of the Cold War. Its main strength is the global coverage and the author
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…
Storia della guerra fredda: L'ultimo conflitto per l'Europa
Storia della guerra fredda: l'ultimo conflitto per l'Europa." Cold War History, 12(4), pp. 705–706
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