Associate professor of history at temple university. Shes a specialist in transnational culture, gender history and the history of cultural globalization. Shes a coeditor of the one of the most important journals in the field, diplomatic history. And her publications include two books. Now, of course, politics of peace published by oxford this year. Its based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012, and the oxford handbook of the cold war published in 2013. Today she will be speaking on, quote, if you want peace, detours on the path to politics of peace in the early cold war. You have the floor. Thank you very much. Thanks to christian, eric, to peter, rachel and everybody else who makes this possible for inviting me. Its a great honor to be here. I was embarrassed to have to admit i had never been here. Im going to try and make an effort, because i realize philadelphia is not that far from washington, at
Why are we not finding better ways of treating cancer . Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Next author petra goedde , talked about her book, the politics of peace a global cold war history. She explored the emerging politics of peace during the early years of the cold war. The Woodrow Wilson center the National History Center Hosted this event. Thank you. I am delighted to see so many of series to welcome to our fromsor petra goedde temple university. She is a professor in the history of globalization. She is a coeditor of one of the most important journals in the field, dip the medic history. Diplomatic history. Her publications include gis and germans, culture, gender and foreign relations, 19451949. And now, the politics of peace a global cold war history. She had it published by oxford this year. It is based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has also coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012. And the oxford handbook of the cold war,
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