Cultural Cold Wars and UNESCO in the Twentieth Century

This book addresses the now considerable interest in the concept of cultural cold war as a means of advancing ideologies. It will appeal to academics, postgraduate researchers, advanced undergraduates, and others interested in recent international history and the comparative politics of ideas.

W. John Morgan is an Honorary Professor, at the School of Social Sciences, and a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, at the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the School of Education, University of Nottingham, where he was UNESCO Chair of the Political Economy of Education. A Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and the Royal Historical Society, he also was a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner for the UK and a Chairman of the United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO. His previously published works with Routledge include Civil Society, Social Change, and a New Popular Education in Russia (with I. N. Trofimova and G.A. Kliucharev), Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education: Nine modern European philosophers (with A. Guilherme), Buber and Education: Dialogue as conflict resolution (with A. Guilherme), Chinese Higher Education Reform and Social Justice (edited, with B. Wu) and Higher Education Reform in China: Beyond the expansion (edited, with B. Wu).