Part of Rethinking the Cold War Lecture Series.
This lecture by Prof Penny Von Eschen of Cornell University considered the restructuring of Cold War binaries in the early 1990s as many Americans searched for ‘a new enemy’, and again after 9/11 with George W. Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’.
Taking a reboot not as repetition but as a darker do-over, and focusing on the intersection of politics and culture, this lecture explores elaborations of triumphalism in former Eastern Bloc nations vying for membership in the EU and NATO and the rapid deterioration of US-Russian relations in 2006-2007 and again in recent months.
Chaired by Dr Piers Ludlow, Associate Professor, International History, LSE (pictured left).
Event held Tuesday 1 March 2016
This exciting new initiative is a collaboration between the Cold War Studies Project at LSE IDEAS and the Cold War Cultures network at the University of Sheffield, two of the most important centres for the study of the Cold War in the UK. This lecture series brings leading academics from outside the UK to present their latest research on the Cold War at both universities.
Drawing on a range of approaches, including political, social, cultural, and social aspects of the Cold War, this initiative aims to deepen our understanding of the Cold War and to foster fruitful academic collaboration both within the UK and internationally.