Goedde's wonderfully imaginative and original work of transnational scholarship flips the lens of Cold War analysis from conflict to the subtleties and contradictions of struggles over peace. Goedde offers fresh interpretations of such often-told stories of the Berlin crisis and Cuban missile crisis as well as uncovering new cultural and political dimensions of global Cold War through a focus on a range of peace actors including Absurdist writers, filmmakers, and
philosophers.
Petra Goedde is Associate Professor of History at Temple University. She is the author of GIs and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949 and the co-editor of The Human Rights Revolution: An International History (OUP, 2012), and The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War (OUP, 2013).