The world we fought for? Systematic violence in global history since 1945 (2017-2020)

The first global history of extreme violence from the end of the Second World War to the present

CSMCH member Donald Bloxham is currently working on the first global history of extreme violence from the end of the Second World War to the present. He is examining worldwide connections between wars, revolutions, genocides, famines, large-scale terrorism and state terror. As a ‘new international history’ the project explores the violence-conducive environment created by imperialism’s legacies, decolonisation, self-determination development agendas, the Cold War, and new geopolitical struggles since the Cold War. 

This project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship programme.