Welcome: Stephen Whitefield, Head of Department
Introduction: Stewart Wood (not featured)
On Saturday 2 March the Department of Politics and International Relations held its inaugural Alumni event in the Manor Road Building. The title of the event was More Europe, less Europe, no Europe?.
You can read a blog article, that provides a lot more context on the event, by going to Politics in Spires.
This chapter examines the role of China in the Cold War. It describes the origins of Cold War in China and the participation of nationalist China in World War 2 and the Cold War, and suggests that China played a pivotal role as the third (albeit shorter) leg of a cold war tripod. The chapter contends that the Cold War era in China is inseparable from the political supremacy Mao Zedong, and highlights the impact of the split between China and the Soviet Union on the role of China in the Cold War.
Speaker: Stephen Whitefield
What kind of crisis are we in? With what can we compare it historically? How should we portray, research and combat it in our work? Are the powerful in society capable of rising to its challenges? How can the weak, who are most affected by it, organise themselves? Can we as symposium participants find a common language to help us move forward?
