‘Eén van onze belangrijkste historici’ – Timothy Snyder, auteur van Over tirannie ‘Historische vergelijkingen zijn meestal moeilijk te onderbouwen, maar Westad brengt zoveel eruditie, intelligentie en inzicht dat hij erin slaagt!  Meer

It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda.  Meer

Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution.  Meer

As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads.  Meer

Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it.  Meer

Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it.  Meer

The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror.  Meer