



In “The Cold War,” Westad traces the broad history of the era, including what he sees as its origins and its far-flung effects. He is also a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard, where he teaches at the Kennedy School. Those and other themes are explored in detail in a comprehensive new history of the Cold War written by Westad, the S.T. As an international historian, Odd Arne Westad may be best known for bringing a fresh interpretation to the Cold War in which he argues that the era began much earlier and extended much farther than popularly thought.
