[Theme]History and Grand Strategy

[Date & Time] March 9, 20:00-21:30

[Location]Room 401, Lide Building, Zhongguancun Campus

[Speaker]Odd Arne Westad

Professor Odd Arne Westad is currently the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University, where he teaches in the Yale History Department and in the Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is a leading authority in the field of international Cold War history and China's foreign relations.

Professor Westad has previously held positions including:
· Chair Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, as well as the Founding Director of its Strategic Research Centre
· S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
· Visiting Professor at Peking University

His representative publications include The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, The Cold War: A World History, Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750, The Korean War: 600 Years of China-DPRK Relations, and he is the co-editor of the three-volume The Cambridge History of the Cold War.