“Insecurity in an Age of Social Change: the Cultural Cold War in Britain”

Anne Deighton
Professor of European International Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations; Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, U.K.


Part of the Topics in Cold War History Seminar Series

Professor of European International Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford; Fellow, Wolfson College; currently directs the ‘European Politics and Society’ two-year M.Phil. graduate program and coordinates the International History Research Network at Oxford; previously worked at the University of Reading and at the Open University; was visiting professor at the Universities of Paris I, III and IV, ULB, Brussels, as well as at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.

Author of numerous works on contemporary European security, including The EC/EU: a world security actor? 1957-2007, co-editor (2007); Division of Germany and the Origins of the Cold War; research interests include Isaiah Berlin, a ‘Cold War’ political philosopher, and the British postwar foreign secretary from 1945-51, Ernest Bevin; part of an international project on the Cold War in the Scandinavian region (working on human rights), and an Austrian project on the infamous Vienna meeting between Kennedy and Khrushchev in 1961 and the British response .


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