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Avan Fata is a full-time PhD candidate in the LSE Department of International History. A longstanding student of the Department, he holds a BA in History from the LSE as well as an MSc in the History of International Relations.
Alongside researching for his thesis, he is currently a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant with the Institute of the Americas at UCL, and a Podcast Producer for The Ballpark with the US Phelan Centre at the LSE.
Avan's doctoral thesis revisits the transitional period of the global order from the end of the Second World War up until the early Cold War through the lens of the United Nations; analysing how the institution was perceived, shaped, and utilised by British and American policymakers as both powers sought to augment their influence in the tumultuous geopolitical landscape of the period. His dissertation aims to integrate imperial, post-colonial, and internationalist dimensions into the narrative of the Anglo-American relationship by exploring the role of the UN in the two nations' handling of various Cold War crises.
Provisional Thesis Title: Making the World Safe for Empire: British Foreign Policy, Anglo-American Strategy, and the United Nations, 1944-56
Supervisor: Professor Nigel Ashton
Expertise Details: 19th and 20th Century Great Power Diplomacy; British Foreign Policy; the United Nations; Grand Strategy during the World Wars