Professor Westad’s new book, The Cold War: A World History, will be published in 2017 by Basic Books in the United States and Penguin in the UK. His most recent book, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750, won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013. 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 6th edition). The book, which has been translated into fifteen languages, also won a number of other awards. Professor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. While at LSE, he directed LSE IDEAS, a leading centre for international affairs, diplomacy and strategy. Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. Taubman Center for State and Local Government.Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.
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