Professor Odd Arne Westad, Professor of International History Director of IDEAS

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[ON SABBATICAL IN 2011/12]

Research and Publications

Professor Westad's main fields of interests are the international history of the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. At LSE, he teaches courses within these topics and supervises students for their dissertations and theses at all levels, from undergraduate to PhD.

Professor Westad co-directs the LSE IDEAS| with Professor Michael Cox (Professor of International Relations). He is an editor of the journal Cold War History| and the editor (with Professor Melvyn Leffler of the University of Virginia) of the forthcoming three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War|.

Professor Westad was awarded the 2006 Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Other major books from recent years include The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (OUP, 2003; with Jussi Hanhimäki); Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1945-1950 (Stanford UP, 2003) Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory (Routledge, 2000).

Arne Westad studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Oslo before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to work on his PhD. He became the Director of Research at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Oslo in 1991. He joined the LSE as a Reader in International History in 1998 and became a Professor and Head of Department in 2004.

The main focus of his current research include the history of China in transition from Cultural Revolution to the era of reform and the history of the 1970s in global politics.

For further information, please see Professor Westad's LSE homepage| or his personal website: www.oaw.cn|.

Click here for more on publications by Professor Odd Arne Westad|.

Teaching and Supervision

Professor Westad's teaching at the LSE reflects the research interests outlined above. He is on sabbatical during 2011/12 but would normally teach the following courses:

At undergraduate level:

HY235: Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1890| (taught jointly with Dr Best, please note that Dr Best is on sabbatical during 2010-11)

At Masters level:

HY463: The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962|

Professor Westad also supervises the following PhD students:

Contact Details

Office: Room COL.B206
Email Address: a.westad@lse.ac.uk|

Office Hours

N.B. Professor Westad is on sabbatical for the 2011/12 academic year

For appointments, please contact t.franulovic|