UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War

Two third year PhD students of the International History and Politics Section, Bernhard Blumenau and Nathaniel Powell, attended the International Graduate Students Conference on the Cold War, which was hosted in Santa Barbara, California and which is organised annually by the London School of Economics, George Washington University and the University of California in Santa Barbara. Bernhard and Nathaniel presented papers on respectively "The Other Battleground of the Cold War: The UN, Germany and International Terrorism in the 1970s" and "Saving Mobutu: An International History of Africa's First Peacekeeping Force". Prominent Cold War historians such as Odd Arne Westad, Hope Harrison, Mary Elise Sarotte and Salim Yaqub provided valuable comments and feedback to the graduate students presenting at the conference.