Vivien Chang
@vivienlchang.bsky.social
Visiting scholar at Harvard. Historian of decolonization, development, postcolonial Africa, US & the world.
Excited to share my H-Diplo review of Elisabeth Leake’s superb article, “The Decolonization Paradigm.” I saw Elisabeth introduce it as the Bernath lecture at last year’s SHAFR, so it was a joy to revisit her work here: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
H-Diplo Article Review 1263: Webb on Leake, "The Decolonization Paradigm" | H-Net
H-Diplo Article Review 1263Elisabeth Leake, “The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World.” Diplomatic History 49:4 (2025): 501-523, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaf044.
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What a lovely, sharp and deeply engaging review by @vivienlchang.bsky.social this is! Thank you. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-hi...
A History That Needs to Be Retold | Los Angeles Review of Books
Vivien Chang reviews Howard W. French’s “The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.”
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An excerpt in @foreignpolicy.com from Andrew Preston's superb new book, Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/30/f...
How FDR Invented National Security
A presidential speech in 1937 marked an unexpected turn in U.S. strategic thought.
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Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues at #SHAFR2025 this week! Join us on Saturday morning for our roundtable on The Global Cold War ✨
The @h-diplo.bsky.social roundtable on Blue Helmet Bureaucrats is out! 💫 Grateful to @lydiawalker.bsky.social, @vivienlchang.bsky.social, & Ryan Irwin for their thoughtful reviews; Eva-Maria Muschik for her kind introduction; & @emleake.bsky.social for making it happen. issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJI...
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Excited to see this roundtable about Eric Helleiner's Contested World Economy (Cambridge, 2023) out at Toynbee Prize Foundation. Participants include @vivienlchang.bsky.social, @blaisetl.bsky.social, Lucia Quaglia, and the author himself. toynbeeprize.org/posts/the-ne...
The Neglected History of International Political Economy: A Roundtable on Eric Helleiner’s “Contested World Economy.” | Toynbee Prize Foundation
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