Westad, Odd Arne

Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His previous publications include The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (2005, winner of the Bancroft Prize, the APSA New Political Science Prize and the Akira Ireye Award), Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946 1950 (2003) and Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945 1963 (1999, as editor).