*** CANCELLED* Due to travel disruption on account of current weather conditions.

This event is a lecture and book launch by PhD alumnus and former LSE Fellow, Dr Vladimir Unkovski-Korica.

His first book is a critical examination of how international economic and geopolitical pressures can exacerbate internal socio-political contradictions in semi-peripheral countries. The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment (I.B. Tauris, 2016) explores the ways in which a global dynamics shaped and undermined early but flawed attempts at crafting a participatory economy, contributing to the re-emergence of the pre-war national question that was later central to the bloody collapse of the country.

Professor Geoffrey Swain will be the commentator.

Dr Vladimir Unkovski-Korica is Lecturer in Legacies of Communism at the School of Social & Political Sciences of the University of Glasgow.

Professor Geoffrey Swain, Emeritus Professor of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow,

The Department of International History (@lsehistory) teaches and conducts research on the international history of Britain, Europe and the world from the early modern era up to the present day.

The Cold War Studies Project focuses on the new history of the Cold War, which uses new primary sources from recently opened archives to challenge conventional understandings, the global Cold War in Europe and Third World - not just the US and USSR, and the continuing modern day impact of the Cold War.