March 19: Sandrine Kott at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar
Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva) will present her new book:
A WORLD MORE EQUAL: AN INTERNATIONALIST PERSPECTIVE ON THE COLD WAR
March 19, 10:00-12:00
Room 5061, Friedrichstraße 191-193
For the zoom link, please write to alila.brossard.antonielli@hu-berlin.de
In her new book, A World More Equal, Sandrine Kott dives into the archives of the United Nations, its agencies, regionals organizations and associations, to provides a new account of the Cold War that foregrounds the rise of internationalism as both an ideology and a practice. She examines cooperation across boundaries in international spaces, emphasizing the role of midsized powers, including Eastern European and neutral countries. Kott highlights how the need to address global inequities became a central concern, as officials and experts argued that economic inequality imperiled the creation of a lasting peace. International organizations gave newly decolonized and “Third World” countries a platform to challenge the global distribution of power and wealth, and they encouraged transnational cooperation in causes such as human rights and women’s rights. Assessing the failure to achieve a new international economic order in the 1970s, Kott adds new perspective on the rise of neoliberalism. A truly global study of the Cold War through the lens of international organizations, A World More Equal also shows why the internationalism of this era offers resources for addressing social and global inequalities today.
SANDRINE KOTT is professor of modern European history at the University of Geneva and a visiting professor at New York University. Her books in English include Communism Day-to-Day: State Enterprises in East German Society (2014).
March 19: Sandrine Kott at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar
Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva) will present her new book:
A WORLD MORE EQUAL: AN INTERNATIONALIST PERSPECTIVE ON THE COLD WAR
March 19, 10:00-12:00
Room 5061, Friedrichstraße 191-193
For the zoom link, please write to alila.brossard.antonielli@hu-berlin.de
In her new book, A World More Equal, Sandrine Kott dives into the archives of the United Nations, its agencies, regionals organizations and associations, to provides a new account of the Cold War that foregrounds the rise of internationalism as both an ideology and a practice. She examines cooperation across boundaries in international spaces, emphasizing the role of midsized powers, including Eastern European and neutral countries. Kott highlights how the need to address global inequities became a central concern, as officials and experts argued that economic inequality imperiled the creation of a lasting peace. International organizations gave newly decolonized and “Third World” countries a platform to challenge the global distribution of power and wealth, and they encouraged transnational cooperation in causes such as human rights and women’s rights. Assessing the failure to achieve a new international economic order in the 1970s, Kott adds new perspective on the rise of neoliberalism. A truly global study of the Cold War through the lens of international organizations, A World More Equal also shows why the internationalism of this era offers resources for addressing social and global inequalities today.
SANDRINE KOTT is professor of modern European history at the University of Geneva and a visiting professor at New York University. Her books in English include Communism Day-to-Day: State Enterprises in East German Society (2014).
