1st Edition

An Analysis of Odd Arne Westad's The Global Cold War Third World Interventions and the Making of our Times

By Patrick Glenn, Bryan Gibson Copyright 2017
112 Pages
by Macat Library

112 Pages
by Macat Library

112 Pages
by Macat Library

For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents that determined its course took place in the northern hemisphere, specifically in the face-off between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe. In this view, the Berlin Wall mattered more than the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the Soviet intervention in Hungary was... Read more

Ways in to the Text 

Who was Odd Arne Westad? 

What does The Global Cold War Say? 

Why does The Global Cold War Matter?  

Section 1: Influences 

Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context  

Module 2: Academic Context  

Module 3: The Problem 

Module 4: The Author's Contribution  

Section 2: Ideas  

Module 5: Main Ideas 

Module 6: Secondary Ideas  

Module 7: Achievement 

Module 8: Place in the Author's Work 

Section 3: Impact 

Module 9: The First Responses  

Module 10: The Evolving Debate  

Module 11: Impact and Influence Today  

Module 12: Where Next?  

Glossary of Terms 

People Mentioned in the Text  

Works Cited

Biography

Dr Patrick Glen received his doctorate from the University of Sheffield. He currently works as a member of the faculty of the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford.

Dr Bryan Gibson holds a PhD in International History from the London School of Economics (LSE) and was a post- doctoral research fellow at the LSE’s Centre for Diplomacy and Strategy and an instructor on Middle Eastern politics in the LSE’s Department of International History and the University of East Anglia’s Department of Political, Social and International Studies (PSI). He is currently on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds and the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).