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A Brief History of Cold War Liberalism Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Daniel Bessner, Michael Brenes, Michael Franczak
In recent years, a flurry of books that explore the history and theory of liberalism have appeared. Nevertheless, there has been surprisingly little scholarship examining the history of ‘Cold War l...
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South Africa and end of the Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Vladimir Shubin
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Piecing Together a Fragmentary History: African Soldiers from Decolonization to the Post-Cold War World Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Richard Levi Raber, Lennart Bolliger
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The consequences of the Cold War for the ANC Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Thula Simpson
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Two Endings: semi-historiographical musings Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Chris Saunders
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A Comparative Perspective on South Africa’s End of the Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Adrian Guelke
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Round Table: The end of the Cold War and the end of apartheid, April 1994 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Sue Onslow
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Poland and European east-west cooperation in the 1970s: the opening up Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Tomasz Korban
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The end of the cold war in Southern Africa: the fall of the nuclear wall Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Anna-Mart van Wyk
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Inexpensive to us and yet very valuable to the impoverished Albanian people’: Covert Foreign Aid and the Anglo-American Subversion of Albania, 1951-55 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Stephen Long
In 1949, Washington and London launched the inaugural Cold War covert action in the Soviet bloc against Albania. Regarded internally as a ‘test case’, the CIA and MI6 used food and material aid in ...
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The Last Revolution: The Sandinista Insurrection and the Inter-American Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Roberto Garcia Ferreira
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Beyond the Arc of Crisis: Jimmy Carter and the Arab ‘Radicals,’ 1978–79 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Benjamin V Allison
After signing the Camp David Accords, the Carter administration pushed to increase American security cooperation and military presence in the Middle East. Though often seen as a response to the reg...
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The triumph of broken promises: the end of the Cold War and the rise of Neoliberalism Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Grant Golub
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Warsaw and the Fedayeen: Wars in the Middle East, Secret Arms Deals and Polish Relations with the Palestine Liberation Organisation, 1967-1976 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Przemysław Gasztold
Poland was the second-to-last country in the Soviet bloc to establish official relations with the PLO – only doing this in March 1976. However, mutual contacts date back to the late 1960s, when Pol...
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‘Tangled times’: Central American refugee perspectives on the long Cold War* Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Molly Todd
Between the 1970s and 1990s, state-led violence drove one-quarter of El Salvador’s population—most of them peasants—into exile. Studies of this phenomenon often adopt a bureaucratic, top-down appro...
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The Atlantic realists: empire and international thought between Germany and the United States Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Davis Ellison
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Cold War Liberation. The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Dmitry Asinovskiy
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Something that apparently troubles the Cubans significantly’: Jimmy Carter’s attempt to pressure Cuba ‘out of Africa’ through the Non-Aligned Movement, 1977-78 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Duccio Basosi
This article contributes to the literature on the US’ and Cuba’s ‘conflicting missions’ in Africa by focusing on a little-known (and failed) attempt by the Jimmy Carter administration, particularly...
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Soviet Aid and the Mongolian Economy: The Global South in CMEA, 1962-1991 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Jun Fujisawa
This paper examines the economic relations between the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Mongolia within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) from the 1960s to the 1980s. After its acce...
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Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Ma Li
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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“Poor Devils”: German Contributions to American Flood Relief and the Early Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Brandon Kinney
In July 1951, the American Midwest experienced one of its worst floods in its history up to that point, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and the displacement of hundreds of t...
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No Risk (Reduction), No Reward: Re-examining the 1973 US-Soviet Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Sarah Bidgood
Nearly fifty years ago on 22 June 1973, US President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev signed the US-Soviet Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War. This bilateral instrument esta...
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Smooth Transition? Dismantling and Accommodating Colonial Rule in Late 1940s South China Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Helena F. S. Lopes
This article explores connections and continuities between the Second World War and the early Cold War in three territories under European colonial rule in South China. It argues that the dismantli...
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What it takes to recognise a new government? India’s diplomatic recognition and understanding of Castro’s Cuba Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Binay Prasad
Despite an increased interest in the diplomatic history of India – chiefly supplemented by the opening up of Indian diplomatic records – the Latin American region has received marginal attention. I...
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Professors and Students in the Cultural Cold War: The Case of Ethiopia* Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Natalia Tsvetkova
During the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union aspired to transform overseas academic institutions according to their political goals. Their attempts to impose certain values, disciplin...
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Refugee transport and the Cold War: the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) and the Hungarian refugees of 1956 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Gusztáv Kecskés
The Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) played a key role in handling the Hungarian refugee crisis of 1956. It was this body, established in 1951, that organised the registrat...
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Perils, promises and perspectives: nuclear weapons, atomic energy and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in the early Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Kevin E. Grimm
In the 1950s and 1960s, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) protested nuclear weapons testing, called for nuclear and conventional disarmament, and simultaneously embraced ...
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Rostislav Ulianovskii, the Tudeh Party of Iran and Soviet attempts to set Iran on a non-capitalist path of development (1979–83) Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Dmitry Asinovskiy
For many in the Soviet leadership, Ayatollah Khomeini’s anti-Americanism was a sufficient reason for supporting the Iranian Revolution. Yet in Rostislav Ulianovskii’s view, the revolution gave Iran...
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Pakistan’s pathway to the bomb. Ambition, politics, and rivalries Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Mauro Elli
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Response to the article ‘Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–74)’ by Pelopidas and Philippe Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Benoît Pelopidas, Sébastien Philippe
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2023)
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Response to the article ‘Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–74)’ by Mongin and Vaïsse Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Dominique Mongin, Maurice Vaïsse
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2023)
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From convergence to divergence: Mozambique’s failed campaign to join the CMEA and the reconfiguration of East-South relations Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Eric Burton
ABSTRACT This article analyses Mozambique’s failed campaign to join the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). It explores the motives and strategies of the Mozambican politicians who led the campaign and the reactions of planners and politicians in Eastern Europe, embedding them in a longer history of their bilateral and multilateral economic relations and the various steps before, during
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Pax transatlantica: America and Europe in the post-Cold War era Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Mario Del Pero
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Early Cold War intelligence paper mills: the case of the Association of Hungarian Veterans Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Katalin Kádár Lynn, Mark Stout
During the early Cold War, it was difficult for American intelligence to penetrate the Iron Curtain but a potential solution soon arose: émigré intelligence groups such as the Magyar Harcosok Bajtá...
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African Students in East Germany, 1949–1975 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Michelle Lynn Kahn
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Word war during Patrick Hurley’s 1944 mission to China Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Rao Fujiangchuan, Yifan Shi
This article explores the disparities that exist between the original English versions and the translated Chinese versions of Patrick Hurley’s ‘Five-Point Proposal’ and argues that by studying addi...
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Margaret Thatcher, British public opinion and German reunification, 1989–90 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Stuart Smedley
ABSTRACT Using opinion poll data collected for the United States Information Agency, the European Commission and various media organisations, this article analyses British public opinion towards German reunification in 1989 and 1990. Contrasting the public’s views with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s hostile approach towards German unity, it demonstrates that the British public were largely supportive
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Hungary’s Cold War: international relations from the end of World War II to the fall of the Soviet Union Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Milorad Lazic
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German women and the making of a transnational movement Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Ludwig Decke
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Decolonization, self-determination, and the rise of global human rights politics Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Timothy Riggio Quevillon
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Protestant missionaries and humanitarianism in the DRC: the politics of aid in Cold War Africa Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Eva Schalbroeck
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2023)
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Building the population bomb Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Martha Liliana Espinosa
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The war in Ukraine Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 James Ellison, Michael Cox, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Hope M. Harrison, N. Piers Ludlow, Angela Romano, Kristina Spohr, Vladislav Zubok
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2023)
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Ploughshares and swords: India’s nuclear program in the global Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Bérénice Guyot-Réchard
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Human Rights and the Status of Children as Victims in the Late Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Isabella Cosse
ABSTRACT This article argues that in the late 1970s the human rights movement recognised children as subjects in their own right, giving them their own voice. The author questions the claims that until recently the dominant view of victims and their suffering was adult-centric and that human rights and humanitarianism were two unrelated paradigms. In studying this process, the author offers a historiographical
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NATO and the Strategic Defense Initiative: a transatlantic history of the Star Wars programme Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Beth A. Fischer
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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‘Better to be a chicken’s head than an ox’s tail’: Japanese envoy diplomacy in the mediation of Konfrontasi (1965) Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Giulia Garbagni
ABSTRACT This article examines a lesser-known episode of the Cold War in Asia, namely Japan’s mediation in the Konfrontasi crisis between Indonesia and Malaysia, focusing on Prime Minister Satō’s appointment of a special envoy, Kawashima Shōjirō, in spring 1965. Drawing on multi-archival research in Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, it shows how Japan’s envoy diplomacy initiative was
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Freedom on the offensive: human rights, democracy promotion, and US interventionism in the late Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Brian S. Mueller
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Afghan Crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Liliane Stadler
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2024)
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The rock star and the dictator: Udo Lindenberg’s East German celebrity diplomacy Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Alissa Bellotti
ABSTRACT In the 1980s, several unusual public interactions took place between West German rock star Udo Lindenberg and East German dictator Erich Honecker. On the surface, their exchanges concerned whether Lindenberg would be allowed to tour in East Germany. Beneath the surface, however, these interactions constituted a challenge to East German cultural policy and restrictions on freedom of expression
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Reconnecting across the Iron Curtain: Hamburg’s Policy of the Elbe Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Christoph Strupp
ABSTRACT After 1945, the Iron Curtain cut off half of the hinterland of Germany’s largest seaport, Hamburg. Located in the middle of Europe, the city found itself at the periphery of the Federal Republic and Western Europe. The political and economic elites of the city-state conceived the Policy of the Elbe to deal with this situation. Its proponents pursued apolitical strategies to reconnect it to
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Finding Nguyen Van Thieu: the value of multinational, multi-archival research Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 David L. Prentice
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2022)
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The global interior: mineral frontiers and American power Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Tyler Priest
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2022)
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Negotiating Armageddon: civil defence in NATO and Denmark 1949-59 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Iben Bjoernsson
ABSTRACT This article follows NATO civil defence planning in the first decade of its existence and asks if and to what extend this affected civil defence in Denmark, a small member state on the front line. The investigation shows a marked shift in NATO planning from the mid-1950s with the advent of the hydrogen bomb. It also shows that Denmark was not unmindful of NATOs recommendations, but in some
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Interior's Proper Place: response to Tyler Priest Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2022-10-16 Megan A. Black
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2022)
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Human rights and the Jimmy Carter administration’s policy towards Poland, 1977–80 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Jakub Tyszkiewicz
ABSTRACT This article reviews the Carter administration’s use of human rights in relations with Poland since 1977. Recently declassified archival documents show that Washington had limited opportunities in this field due to the rigid attitude of Warsaw: divided families were a main point of friction. The US government was not really able to support dissident activity in Poland. The Polish government’s
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Collapse: the fall of the Soviet Union Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Michael Cox
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Cuban memory wars: retrospective politics in revolution and exile Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Katie Coldiron
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2023)
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Une armée de diplomates: Les militaires américains et la France, 1944–1967 Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Lori Maguire
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2022)
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A twentieth-century crusade: the Vatican’s battle to remake Christian Europe Cold War History (IF 0.746) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Sean Scanlon
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 23, No. 4, 2023)