CWSC Public Lecture
27 January, 2005, LSE
The Death of the West? US-European Relations in the Age of Bush
Speaker: Dr. Mary Sarotte (Cambridge)
Chair: Professor Michael Cox
CWSC Public Lecture
2 February, 2005, LSE
Old Wars, Cold Wars, New Wars, Wars on Terror
Speaker: Professor Mary Kaldor (LSE)
Chair: Professor Arne Westad
Cold War Studies Centre Seminar
8 February, 2005, LSE
Redefining Normality: German security policy and the end of the Cold War
Speaker: Felix Berenskoetter (LSE)
Cold War Studies Centre Seminar
22 February 2005, LSE
Latin America at the forefront of US foreign and security policy during the Cold War
Speaker: Alvaro Mendez (LSE)
CWSC Public Lecture
2 March 2005, LSE
Russia and the War on Terror
Speaker: Professor Margot Light (LSE)
Chair: Professor Arne Westad
Cold War Studies Centre Seminar
8 March 2005, LSE
American universalism and the origins of the Cold War
Adam Quinn (LSE)
International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War: The Cold War and its Context
29-30 April 2005
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
The UCSB Center for Cold War Studies (CCWS), the George Washington Cold War Group (GWCW), and the LSE Cold War Studies Centre (CWSC) have organised their 2005 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, which was held at UCSB from 29-30 April 2005.
The conference was an excellent opportunity for graduate students to present papers and receive critical feedback from peers and experts in the field. Each paper had a faculty discussant, and there was a keynote address by a distinguished scholar in the field.
CWSC Workshop: International History of the Bandung Conference and the Origins of the Non-Aligned Movement
13-16 May 2005
Sveti Stefan, Serbia and Montenegro
This workshop is organized by LSE Cold War Studies Centre; the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University; the Department of History at the University of Belgrade; and the Archives of Serbia and Montenegro and with the generous support from the Cold War International History Project and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, and the Ford Foundation in New York.
The 1955 Bandung Conference, the first meeting of leaders from African and Asian states in the postcolonial era, marked a watershed in international relations. For the first time, the political leaders of the Third World met to begin forming their own joint policies on key foreign affairs issues, such as world trade, decolonization, the Cold War, and disarmament.
Speaking for more than half the world's population, the leaders who met at Bandung formed resolutions that would be of central importance for the forming of the Non-Aligned Movement and for the future of the United Nations. But as importantly, the conference provided a forum for exchanging views on patterns of domestic development for leaders such as India's Nehru, China's Zhou Enlai, Indonesia's Sukarno, Egypt's Nasser, and Ghana's Nkrumah.
This workshop is more than a commemoration of the Bandung era. One of its aims is to forge an understanding of the Bandung/Non-Alignment era in relation to both new and old forms of imperialism, political-economic inequalities, and shifting geopolitical landscapes. Revisiting Bandung is especially urgent given the near global embrace of neoliberal strategies of growth, the ascendancy of new imperial projects, and the apparent demise of Thirdworldism.
The workshop is taking place in cooperation with the National Archives of Serbia and Montenegro, which holds Tito's papers and the largest available research collection on the history of the Non-Aligned Movement. Faculty and graduate students at Belgrade University will be preparing separate papers based on the Belgrade archives on Tito's relations with key Third World leaders, such as Nasser, Nehru, and Sukarno.
Cambridge-LSE Graduate Student Conference
20-21 May 2005, Cambridge University
Witness Seminar: Britain and the Rhodesian Question: Road to Settlement 1979-80
5 July 2005
The National Archive
Kew, Richmond, Surrey
On Tuesday 5th July , in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary British History, the CWSC held a Witness Seminar 'Britain and Rhodesia: Road to Settlement' at The National Archives, Kew.
This was the first meeting in the current series organised by CWSC as part of its Southern Africa Initiative.
The Witness Seminar was attended by many leading British politicians and diplomats involved in the resolution of the Rhodesia issue, the events leading up to the Lancaster House Conference and Zimbabwe's legal independence in April 1980.
Participants included Lord Carrington (Foreign Secretary 1979-1982), Lord Steel (leader of the Liberal Party 1976-88), Sir John Graham, Sir Derek Day, and the Hon Peter Jay (British Ambassador to Washington 1977-79). Professor Westad, Director of CWSC, then chaired an interactive session between historians and witnesses.
CWSC-Gilder Lehrman Institute Summer Seminar in Cold War History
24-30 July 2005, St Catharine's College, Cambridge
CWSC Public Lecture
12 October 2005, LSE
Mao, the Chinese Revolution, and After
Speakers: Jon Halliday and Jung Chang, Authors of Mao: The Untold Story
The world has long awaited the new biography of Mao by Jon Halliday and Jung Chang - author of the best-selling Wild Swans. It has now appeared to rave reviews. Here the two discuss the life, times and legacy of Mao and Maoism with Professor Michael Cox and Professor Arne Westad, the Directors of the Cold War Studies Centre at the LSE.
CWSC Public Lecture
18 October 2005, LSE
American Power: Global Sheriff - International Outlaw?
Speaker: Professor William Wohlforth (Dartmouth College, USA) and Professor Paul Rogers (University of Bradford)
CWSC Public Lecture
8 November 2005, LSE
Bush Two, Year One: Lame Duck or Radical Reformer?
Roundtable Discussion Speakers: Professor Philip Davies (The Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library), former US Congresswoman Beverly Byron (Democrat, Maryland), former US Congressman Ronald A. Sarasin (Republican, Connecticult)
Organized in conjunction with the British Association for the American Studies.
CWSC Public Lecture
15 November 2005, LSE
Is America a Foreign Country? Reflections on the Right Nation
Speaker: Dr. Anatol Lieven (Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC) and John Micklethwait (US Editor of The Economist)
How different is the United States? Why does it appear like 'us' at some times and quite unlike 'us' at others? Is it growing apart from Europe or will it remain deeply attached to the continent? The answers to this will depend to a large degree on how we view the United States as a country?
Here we bring together two of the boldest British analysts of the American scene to discuss whther or not the US is becoming - or has even yet become - a "foreign" country?
Chair: Professor Michael Cox, Department of International Relations, LSE.
CWSC Public Lecture
22 November 2005, LSE
Neo-Conservatism and the Origins of the New American Empire
Speakers: Professor Anne Norton (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Dr Stefan Halper (University of Cambridge, UK)
Two themes have run like a red thread through recent debates about American foreign policy under Bush: whether we should now be thinking of the United States in terms of an Empire, and the degree to which its foreign policy has been shaped by a set of ideas loosely defined as neo-conservative?
But who are the neo-conservatives and what is their world outlook? Two leading Americans who have written on the subject in recently path-breaking studies explore the origins and onsequences of neo-conservatism
Chair: Professor Chris Brown, Department of International Relations, LSE
CWSC Public Lecture
29 November 2005, LSE
The inaugural lecture: the Gilder Lehrman Lecture Series in American History, in association with the Cold War Studies Centre
The Origins of American Constitutionalism
Speaker: Professor Gordon Wood, Pulitzer Prize winner (Brown University, USA)
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