At LSE he helped establish the Cold War Studies Centre in 2004, along with Professor Odd Arne Westad, where they were Co-Directors are also Co-Editors of the London School of Economics CWSC journal, "Cold War History". In 2008 the Cold War Studies Centre expanded into LSE IDEAS, a foreign policy centre based which aims to bring the academic and policy words together. In a 2014 international survey, IDEAS was ranked 2nd in the world amongst the best university affiliated Think Tanks.