Cultural Cold Wars and UNESCO in the Twentieth Century

W. John Morgan is Professor Emeritus at the School of Education, University of Nottingham, where he was UNESCO Chair of the Political Economy of Education. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Jordan and until recently was Honorary Professor and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, of the Learned Society of Wales, and of the Royal Historical Society, he has also been a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner for the United Kingdom and 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).

Introduction Part One: Cultural Cold Wars 1. Cultural and Intellectual Internationalism Between the Wars; 2. The First Cultural Cold War: International Communism; 3. The Cultural and Intellectual Appeal of Fascism; 4. From Wartime Alliance to the Second Cultural Cold War Part Two: UNESCO and the Cultural Cold War 5. UNESCO and the Politics of International Cooperation after 1945; 6. UNESCO and the Early Cultural Cold War; 7. Conclusion: UNESCO and the Politics of Ideas in the late Twentieth Century; Bibliography; Index