On Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, the Clements Center will welcome Professor Arne Westad, the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, for a talk at the University of Texas at Austin.
Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. He is an expert on contemporary international history and the eastern Asian region. Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). While at LSE, he directed LSE IDEAS, a leading center for international affairs, diplomacy and strategy.
Professor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for "The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times." The book, which has been translated into 15 languages, won a number of other awards as well. Westad served as general editor for the three-volume "Cambridge History of the Cold War," and is the author of the "Penguin History of the World" (now in its sixth edition). His most recent book, "Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750," won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013. Westad’s most recent book, "The Cold War: A World History," was published in 2017 by Basic Books in the United States and Penguin in the UK. A new history of the global conflict between capitalism and Communism since the late 19th century, it provides the larger context for how today’s international affairs came into being.
For more information, contact Elizabeth Doughtie at elizabeth.doughtie@utexas.edu or 512-232-6957.