Cold War Studies Centre America as Another Country Series
Date: Tuesday 14 February 2006
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Arne Westad
Discussants: Professor Fred Halliday and Professor Richard Immerman
Chair: Professor Michael Cox
In his major new study, The Global Cold War: third world interventions and the making of our times, Professor Westad argues that it was not in Europe or the United States where the costs of the Cold War were borne but in the Third World. It is also in the Third World where the bitter legacy of the Cold War can be most readily measured now.
Professor Arne Westad is co-director of the Cold War Studies Centre at LSE.
Fred Halliday is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.
Richard H. Immerman is the Edward J. Buthusiem Family Distinguished faculty fellow and chair of the department of history at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.
The next event in the series takes place on Wednesday 1 March - The United States - Global Polluter? Kyoto and After|.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first serve basis.
For further information email events@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.