Vivien Chang

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

Thanks so much, John!

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.”

What a lovely, sharp and deeply engaging review by @vivienlchang.bsky.social this is! Thank you. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-hi...

How FDR Invented National Security A presidential speech in 1937 marked an unexpected turn in U.S. strategic thought.

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...

Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues at #SHAFR2025 this week! Join us on Saturday morning for our roundtable on The Global Cold War ✨

A giant has fallen.

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...

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...