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Odd Arne Westad is the Elihu Professor of History at Yale. Among his sixteen books dealing with cold-war, twentieth-century Asian, and global history are The Fall of Détente: Soviet-American Relations During the Carter Years (1997), The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (2006), and The Cold War: A World History (2017).
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