Odd Arne Westad is an expert on the history of the Cold War era and on contemporary international affairs. He was born in Norway in 1960. He studied history, philosophy and modern languages at the University of Oslo and received his PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Westad served for seven years as Director of Research at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and has held visiting fellowships at Cambridge University and New York University.
Professor Westad joined ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ in 1998 and served as Head of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳’s International History Department from 2004 to 2007. While at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, he also co-founded , a centre for international affairs, diplomacy and strategy.
He left the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ in 2015 to join Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government as . He continues to lecture widely on China's foreign affairs, on Western interventions in Africa and Asia, and on foreign policy strategy.
Westad's 2005 book, , received the Bancroft Prize, the Michael Harrington Award, and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award. It has been translated into fifteen languages.
, a three volume history edited jointly with Melvyn P. Leffler, was published in the spring of 2010. Seven years in the making, the Cambridge History has 75 chapters written by top scholars from 18 different countries. Cambridge University Press describes it as "a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world politics in the twentieth century… [which] signifies a transformation of the field from a national - primarily American - to a broader international approach."
His most recent book, , explores China’s foreign affairs since the mid-Qing dynasty. In a review, Jonathan Spence called the book “thorough, fast-moving, and consistently clear. It gives an excellent introduction to the vagaries of China’s foreign relations over the last 250 years.” The book won the Asia Society's book award for 2013.
Professor Arne Westad has authored many books, articles, chapters and paper. This is a list of his recent books:
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Roberts, J. M. and Westad, O.A., 6th edition, Penguin Books Ltd, London, UK, 2013.
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. The Bodley Head, London, UK, 2012.
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Westad, OA; Leffler, MP (eds.) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK., 3 volumes, 2010.
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J.M. Roberts, , 5th edition. Revised and updated by OA Westad. Penguin, 2008.
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Westad, OA; Quinn-Judge, S (eds.). . Routledge, 2006.
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. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Westad, OA; Hanhimaki, J (eds.). . Oxford University Press, 2003.
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. Stanford University Press, 2003.
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Westad, OA; C.Y. Moon, G.H.Kang (eds.). . Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 2001.
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Westad, OA (ed.). . Frank Cass, 2000.
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. Stanford University Press/Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1999.
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Westad, OA; Chen J; Tonnesson, S; Nguyen Vu Tung; and Hershberg, J (eds.). . Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1998.
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Westad, OA; Sven G. Holtsmark, and Iver B. Neumann (eds.). . Palgrave Macmillan, 1994.
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. Columbia University Press; Reprint edition (August 1993).
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Westad, OAand Geir Lundestad (eds.). . A Scandinavian University Press Publication, 1993.
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