Books by Odd Arne Westad
Odd Arne Westad is a scholar of modern international and global history, with a specialization in the history of eastern Asia since the 18th century. He has published on the Cold War, China-Russia relations, and the history of the Chinese civil war and the Chinese Communist Party and edited several books on Sino-Soviet and Cold War history. His main focus now is the history of empire and imperialism, first and foremost in Asia, but also world-wide. He is currently based at Yale.
“The book’s strength is its breadth. What Westad’s book describes is the Cold War as a whole, not just in the places on which most studies have focused—the United States, the Soviet Union and Europe—but also in Asia, Africa and Latin America He challenges the view that this was a ‘long peace’. It was not a long peace for Koreans and Vietnamese, nor indeed for the Americans who were killed in those wars far from their native shores.” Read more...
The best books on The Cold War
Archie Brown, Historian
The Global Cold War
by Odd Arne Westad
If you have readers who are interested in a good work of serious history on the cold war then I would definitely recommend this book. It argues that the Cold War interventions by powerful countries into smaller ones ended up benefiting no one at all.
Interviews with Odd Arne Westad
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Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History
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Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan
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The Annals of King T'aejo: Founder of Korea's Choson Dynasty
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Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Choson Korea, 1850-1910
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Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World
by masuda hajimu
The best books on China Korea Relations, recommended by Odd Arne Westad
The best books on China Korea Relations, recommended by Odd Arne Westad
China has had close political and cultural relations with Korea for centuries and the history of that relationship can shed light on China’s approach to international relations more broadly—including in its imperial past. Yale historian Odd Arne Westad recommends the best books on China, Korea and the relationship between them.
Interviews where books by Odd Arne Westad were recommended
The best books on 1989, recommended by Mary Elise Sarotte
Mary Elise Sarotte, holder of the Kravis Chair in Historical Studies at Johns Hopkins, discusses five books on the end of the Cold War and East Germany’s attempts to grapple with its new future post-reunification
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The Cold War: A World History
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For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
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Russia and the Idea of the West
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The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe
Jacques Lévesque (trans. Keith Martin) -
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Reagan and Gorbachev
by Jack Matlock
The best books on The Cold War, recommended by Archie Brown
The best books on The Cold War, recommended by Archie Brown
American military and economic superiority cannot explain why the Cold War came to an end in the late 1980s and early 1990s. According to the historian Archie Brown, you need to accept the primacy of politics and human agency both in the USSR and the West. He chooses five books to understand the Cold War and offers some broader reflections on the qualities of good political leadership—then and now.
