1. Politics at the Water's Edge: The Cold War and the Reshaping of U.S. Policy and Partisanship • Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago.

2. The Cold War and the Genealogy of Depoliticization • Xiaohong Xu, University of Michigan.

3. The Cold War from the Global South • Kristin Plys, University of Toronto.

4. Through the Prism of ‘Community Development’: a Historical Sociology of Cold War Conjunctures • Mushahid Hussain, Cornell University.

5. The Political Imagination of Decolonizing Intellectuals during the Early Cold War: Pierre Bourdieu, Frantz Fanon, and Leopold Senghor • George Steinmetz, University of Michigan.