The World from 1945-1950
The Cold War in Europe, 1945-1949
The Cold War Becomes Global, 1945-1962
Detente Between East and West, 1962-1975
Renewed Tension Between East and West, 1975-1984
The End of the Cold War, 1984-1990
Major Powers and Local Conflicts after the Cold War, 1990-2004
The Arms Race, 1945-2004
Developments within the Western Bloc, 1945-2004
The Soviet Union/Russia and the (formerly) Communist Countries,
1945-2004
Decolonization
Economic Relations between North and South, 1945-2004
Geir Lundestad was born in 1945. He was professor of history and
American Civilization at the University of Tromsø from 1974 to
1990. He has held fellowships at Harvard University (1978–79, 1983)
and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC (1988–89).
Since 1990 Lundestad has been director of the Norwegian Nobel
Institute and permanent secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The Committe awards the Nobel Peace Prize. Since 1991 he has also
been adjunct professor of international history at the University
of Oslo.
Lundestad has written numerous books and articles on the Cold War
and on transatlantic relations. His most recent books are The Rise
& Decline of the American ‘Empire’. Power and its Limits in
Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
and, edited, International Relations Since the End of the Cold War.
New & Old Dimensions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
′International relations textbooks share a similar risk of always speaking in the same voice. Not because of multi-handling, but instead thanks to a frequently impenetrable, introverted discourse about theory. This makes Geir Lundestad’s book so welcome. He pays due homage to the important contribution of theory in the development of International Relations as a discipline, while escaping the standard focus on realism, liberalism and constructivism. Instead, he uses various branches of explanatory theory to provide an invaluable survey of world history after 1945′ -Australian Journal of Political Science
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