{"id":2002,"date":"2018-10-02T09:25:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T08:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2018-10-02T09:25:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T08:25:32","slug":"phd-opportunity-the-cold-war-in-global-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"PhD Opportunity: The Cold War in Global Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_-8323084725496782750gmail-xmsonormal\">The Department of History invites applications for a PhD in History focused on exploring the Cold War in global perspectives. Particular themes could include post-colonial security issues, such as defence and\/or military assistance relations between the superpowers, the former metropoles or other West European countries and African states, conflicts, human rights or peace keeping. We would particularly welcome applications which avoid a Eurocentric perspective.<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_-8323084725496782750expandedText-387184\">\n<p class=\"m_-8323084725496782750gmail-xmsonormal\">The Department of History has a strong and growing reputation for research in this field with three new appointments complementing the thematic expertise of existing staff.\u00a0The department is launching a new MA in Military and International History in 2019 and are thus growing research communities in this field.\u00a0You are also likely to benefit from a variety of Cold War-related projects in the department, as well as staff roles on international academic bodies and Marco Wyss\u2019s editorial roles including the\u00a0<em>International Journal of Military History and Historiography<\/em>, and the book series \u2018New Perspectives on the Cold War\u2019 (Brill).<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8323084725496782750gmail-xmsonormal\"><strong>Please contact Dr Marco Wyss (<a>m.wyss@lancaster.ac.uk<\/a>) to discuss your interest in this fully funded PhD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/history\/PhD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/history\/PhD&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1538554204329000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH_Xlf5jUh-PHLFjlEBsR0IIxdFiw\">www.lancaster.ac.uk\/history\/<wbr \/>PhD<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of History invites applications for a PhD in History focused on exploring the Cold War in global perspectives. Particular themes could include post-colonial security issues, such as defence and\/or military assistance relations between the superpowers, the former metropoles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2002\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[58,606,423,570,51,194,607,581,234,434],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-cfps-events","tag-africa","tag-cold-war","tag-conflict","tag-defence","tag-europe","tag-human-rights","tag-military-assistance","tag-peacekeeping","tag-phd","tag-post-colonial"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}