Division International Studies

On March 8-9, 2010 Sergey Radchenko took part in a conference “New International Order of Asia in the 1950s-60s” hosted by the University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan. He presented a paper on “Decolonization and the Soviet Union’s Asia policy.” This was followed by a research visit to the Slavic Research Center of the University of Hokkaido. On February 27-28, 2010 he took part in a workshop “China and the Communist World in the Second Half of the Cold War” in Budapest, Hungary, presenting a paper on ”The demise of the Intekit: Soviet sinology and the Sino-Soviet rapprochement”. He also carried out research at the Hungarian National Archive for his book project on the end of the Cold War in East Asia.

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From September 24 to September 26, 2009 UNNC International Studies division Lecturer Sergey Radchenko took part in a conference “The End of the Cold War and the Third World.” The conference explored the impact of the end of the Cold War on the Third World: in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. How did the great transformation of the world in the late 1980s affect regional conflicts and client relationships? Who “won” and who “lost” in the Third World and why do so many Cold War-era problems remain unresolved? The conference was organized jointly by Sergey Radchenko (UNNC) and Artemy Kalinovsky (LSE) and held at the IDEAS centre of the London School of Economics. Participants included eminent scholars and young researchers from the LSE, Cornell University, George Washington University, Harvard University, John Hopkins University, King’ College London, UNNC and other leading institutions across the world. It is expected that conference papers will be published in an edited volume for use by scholars and policy analysts. Negotiations with a publisher are underway.