Elisabeth Leake - global dis:connect

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Elisabeth Leake

Elisabeth Leake is the Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She works on decolonisation, the global Cold War and histories of South Asia. Her books include Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan (OUP, 2022) and The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-65 (CUP, 2017). She is also chief editor of the Journal of Global History.

Elisabeth joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.

Decolonization’s Discontents: Dissent and Opposition in the Aftermath of Independence

Elisabeth is currently undertaking two interconnected research projects. The first, Decolonisation’s discontents, explores the development of different modes of opposition in the aftermath of political independence. The second is a global history of decolonisation, beginning in the late 18th century and ending with the close of the 20th. It interrogates how our understanding of decolonisation, as both idea and practice, shifts by taking a longer, broader historical perspective.

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Click HERE to mail Elisabeth and HERE for a list of her publications.