Dr. Kona Swapna Nayudu

IR researcher (Yale-NUS College & Harvard University)

”As someone studying the Cold War from a historical International Relations perspective, I find that the Cold War amply demonstrates the inability of the system of states to function solely on the basis of great power politics – smaller powers and regional dynamics can often have a rebalancing effect on a body politic that seems to function in predetermined patterns set by larger, more powerful nations. The Afro-Asian experience of the Cold War alerts us to these assumptions we may make about the power of great powers.”