CHAIRPERSON
Assoc Prof Michael Feener, Asia Research Institute and Department of History, National University of Singapore
ABSTRACT
Elements emerging from the New Deal within the United States were instrumental to American global activity, particularly in framing and legitimating the modernization activities that were crucial to US postwar strategy. These concepts were always part of international politics and they would play a crucial role in US involvement in Southeast Asia during the Cold War. But the complexities of that involvement were a moment where many assumptions about a New Deal for the world would begin to unravel.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Ekbladh is Associate Professor of history and core faculty in international relations at Tufts University. He is currently at work on a book entitled, Look at the World: The Birth of an American Globalism in the 1930s. His first book, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order (Princeton University Press, 2010), won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize of the Society of American Historians as well as the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award.
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