The group discusses research on the Cold War as a global history of the conflict that took place between 1945 and 1990. The research agenda is far broader than diplomatic, military, and intelligence histories of the conflict. This agenda spans across cultural landscapes, transnational history of “border-crossings,” ideological currents and propaganda, economic developments, impact of international finances, exploration of political persecution, refugees, gender-related issues, decolonisation, and more.
The members of the Cluster include several board members of , an influential quarterly that publishes scholarship in the field. They also engaged with the research seminars HY509 and HY510.
The main objectives of the cluster are to share information among faculty members and across the School, improve supervision of doctoral students, spot innovative works-in-progress, and arrange discussions with their authors.
Spokesperson: Professor Vladislav Zubok
Keywords: Cold War, United States, Soviet Union, Middle East, Europe, Latin America, communism, culture, decolonisation, diplomacy, gender, human rights, identity, intelligence, integration, modernisation, natural resources, nuclear weapons, race, solidarity, war.
Dr Roham Alvandi
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Iran; Modern Middle East; Cold War
Professor Nigel Ashton
Professor of International History
Research interests:
Anglo-American Relations; Modern Middle-East
Dr Tanya Harmer
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Latin America; Cold War
Dr Elizabeth Ingleson
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
United States History; Chinese History; Trade; Labour; Diplomacy; Multinational Corporations
Professor Matthew Jones
Professor of International History
Research interests:
British Foreign and Defence Policy since the Second World War; Nuclear History during the Cold War; Vietnam War; British Decolonisation and South East Asia; US Foreign Relations since 1941; Anglo-American Relations
Professor N. Piers Ludlow
Professor of International History
Research interests:
Western Europe since 1945; European Integration; Cold War Transatlantic Relations; Britain in the EC/EU
Dr Giuseppe Paparella
Visiting Research Fellow
Research interests: The United States in the Asia Pacific; U.S. - China Relations; International Relations Theory; Ideologies of Progress; Strategy and Security.
Dr Tintin Wulia
Visiting Research Fellow
Research interests: Declassification, Cold War & Indonesia, contemporary art, critical cosmopolitanism
Dr Artemis Photiadou
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
Britain and Europe; European Political Regimes; Intelligence History
Dr Svetozar Rajak
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Cold War; Eastern Europe; Balkans
Professor Aino Rosa Kristina Spohr
Professor of International History
Research interests:
Germany Post-1945; Summit Diplomacy; Global Cold War Exits; World Order & Strategy; Arctic Affairs
Dr Qingfei Yin
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
Cold War; China; Vietnam; China-Southeast Asia Relations; Borderlands
2021/22:
2020/21:
- 29 April 2021: (City University of New York), and Dr Taylor C. Sherman (杏吧论坛 International History) - GloBio Talk:
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22 April 2021: (Emory University School of Law), , (University of Oxford), (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Dr Michael Reynolds (杏吧论坛 International History) - History, Culture and Diplomacy Series: Waiting with Godot?: Pandemic Endings in Perspective
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8 February 2021: (Smithsonian) - Book Talk: Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
- 30 November 2020: (University of East Anglia) (New York University) and (University of Cambridge) - Book Talk: Whistleblowing Nation: The History of US National Security Disclosures
- 19 November 2020: (University of Alabama), , (University of Texas-Arlington), (City University of New York) - History, Culture and Diplomacy Series: "Mind the Gap": New Directions in History, Culture and Diplomacy in a Time of COVID
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17 November 2020: (Duke University) - Book Talk: The Beginning of the End of the Cold War
- 27 October 2020: (Ludwig Maximilian University), (Sheffield University), (NYU) - Book Talk: Project Europe: Success or Failure?
- 20 October 2020: (Columbia) - Book Talk: How the United States Decided to Dominate the World
- 15 October 2020: (Yale University) - Book Talk: How the Global Cold War Remade American Politics
2019/20:
2018/19:
2017/18:
- 5 October 2017: Professor William Taubman:
- 28 February 2018: Dr Alanna O’Malley: "
- 20 March 2018: Professor Matthew Jones: "
- Roham Alvandi (2014) Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
- Nigel Ashton (2008) . Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
- Nigel Ashton (2022) . Atlantic Books, London, UK, 2022.
- Ashton, Nigel and Aldous, Richard (2022) . Diplomacy and Statecraft, 33:1, 1-18. This is part of a special issue that Professor Ashton co-edited under the same name.
- Tanya Harmer (2011) . University of Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
- Elizabeth Ingleson (2021) "". Pacific Historical Review, 90:3.
- Elizabeth Ingleson (2022) "US-China Relations in the Cold War: Bridging Two Eras," Tyson Reeder (ed.).
- Matthew Jones (2017) The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, and . Routledge, London, UK.
- Matthew Jones (2021) '', The International History Review (published online 1 June 2021)
- N. Piers Ludlow (2016) . Palgrave, London, UK.
- N. Piers Ludlow (2020) ‘’, International History Review
- N. Piers Ludlow (2020) ‘A Double-Edged Victory: Fontainebleau and the Resolution of the British Budget Problem, 1983-84’ in M. Gehler (ed.), , Nomos, Germany.
- Victoria Phillips (2020) . Oxford University Press, New York, USA.
- Svetozar Rajak (2010) . Routledge, London, UK, and New York, New York, USA.
- Kristina Spohr (2016) Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
- Kristina Spohr (2022), '', Diplomacy and Statecraft, 33:1, 158-193.
- Qingfei Yin (2020) '', Modern Asian Studies, 54:6.
- Vladislav Zubok (2007) . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
- Vladislav Zubok (2017) , I.B. Tauris, London, UK.
- Vladislav Zubok (2021) . Yale University Press, London, UK.
Dr Una Bergmane received the Emerging Scholar Grant from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (USA) in 2018.
Dr Victoria Phillips received the Harriman Institute Publication Grant in 2017 and a Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant through the City of New York Graduate Center in 2022.
Dr Kristina Spohr is researching and writing on the global exit from the Cold War 1989 – 1992 with the financial support of the Leverhulme Trust. She is the 2018-19 Inaugural Helmut Schmidt Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Washington DC.