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For Might and Right: Cold War defense spending and the remaking of American democracy Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Keith McLoughlin
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Contra solidarity: revolution and counterrevolution in the united states and nicaragua Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-01 David Johnson Lee
This article explains how the Contra War was shaped by interaction between revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries both before and after Nicaragua’s 1979 revolution. In successfully overthrowing...
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The political partnership between Israel and authoritarian Uruguay, 1972–1980 Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Gerardo Leibner
Between 1972 and 1980, Israel and authoritarian Uruguay developed a political partnership based on their shared self-perception as misunderstood Western bastions fighting terrorism and the proxies ...
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Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Lori Maguire
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘That is where the similarity ends’: refugee policies, communities, and connections between Cubans and Vietnamese Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Michael J. Bustamante, Jana K. Lipman
This article explores US Cold War refugee policies toward Cubans and Vietnamese, as well as moments of connection between both communities in the United States. First, it identifies the legal and p...
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Consuls in the Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Thomas A. Schwartz
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Soldiers of Fortune, Soldiers of God: Evangelical Mercenaries and the Making of the Rhodesian-American Religious Lobby, 1965–1980 Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Benjamin J. Young
This article tracks the emergence, evolution, and decline of the Rhodesian-American religious lobby, a transnational network of churches, magazines, lobbying groups, and other non-state actors that...
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Refuge in Revolution: Chilean and Uruguayan Exiles in Cuba, 1973-1990 Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Tanya Harmer
This article examines the refuge revolutionary Cuba offered to Chilean and Uruguayan exiles. Fleeing dictatorships during Latin America’s Cold War, thousands arrived in, or passed through, Cuba. Cu...
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The Cold War History of Wheat Flour in South Korea, 1945–1960: the Discourse of Corruption and the April Revolution of 1960 Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Dajeong Chung
One way that the United States conducted the Cold War was through its surplus food programmes (Public Law 480), which fed the hungry and supported anticommunist regimes. Consequently, South Koreans...
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‘Of the utmost importance for the survival of mankind’: The Alerdinck Foundation, the Media, and Citizen Diplomacy to End the Cold War, 1984–1992 Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-23 Giles Scott-Smith
In 1985, Dutch businessman Frans Lurvink created the Alerdinck Foundation and its Centre for East-West Communications. A private venture, Alerdinck set out to achieve greater understanding between ...
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Clashing visions of non-alignment: the origins of the Cuban-Yugoslav conflict Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Agustín Cosovschi
This article offers a contribution to the history of the conflict between Cuba and Yugoslavia over the definition of non-alignment, by going back to the first years of their bilateral relationship ...
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Cybernetics on the margins: computer science in Albanian higher education during the Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Arjan Shahini
This article offers a multilayered examination of knowledge circulation and technology transfer in a peripheral country by tracing the development of computer science in Albanian higher education. ...
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Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945-1971 Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Ryan Glauser
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Forging the Indian Steel Industry: How Soviet Designs Won the Day Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Max Trecker
Indian politics tried to benefit from the competition between the two Cold War Blocs by gaining beneficial terms for economic cooperation and assistance. At times, Soviet and Central and Eastern Eu...
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Koreagate Revisited: ROK Government Lobbying on the Human Rights Issue Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Benjamin A. Engel
Republic of Korea (ROK) lobbying in the United States during the 1970s, which blew up into the Koreagate scandal, is a widely known but understudied episode in US-ROK relations. Utilizing declassif...
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Refugee Camps as Spaces of the Global Cold War: Cold War activism and humanitarian action within refugee camps in Honduras during the 1980s Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Fionntán O’Hara
This article looks at refugee camps for Salvadoran and Nicaraguan refugees in Honduras, as a lens to examine the relationship between the Cold War and humanitarianism during the 1980s. While this p...
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French Nuclear Strategy: The Making of a ‘Consensus’ (1972–1988) Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Yannick Pincé
This article presents the first critical explanation of the construction of a French nuclear ‘consensus’ in the 1970s and 1980s. It draws on known sources, apart from a few interviews, but above al...
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A Brief History of Cold War Liberalism Cold War History (IF 0.4) 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 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Vladimir Shubin
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2024)
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Piecing Together a Fragmentary History: African Soldiers from Decolonization to the Post-Cold War World Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Richard Levi Raber, Lennart Bolliger
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2024)
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Two Endings: semi-historiographical musings Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Chris Saunders
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2024)
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The consequences of the Cold War for the ANC Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Thula Simpson
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2024)
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A Comparative Perspective on South Africa’s End of the Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Adrian Guelke
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2024)
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Poland and European east-west cooperation in the 1970s: the opening up Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Tomasz Korban
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 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Sue Onslow
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2024)
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The end of the cold war in Southern Africa: the fall of the nuclear wall Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Anna-Mart van Wyk
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2024)
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The Last Revolution: The Sandinista Insurrection and the Inter-American Cold War Cold War History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Roberto Garcia Ferreira
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 0.4) 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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Beyond the Arc of Crisis: Jimmy Carter and the Arab ‘Radicals,’ 1978–79 Cold War History (IF 0.4) 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 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Grant Golub
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Tangled times’: Central American refugee perspectives on the long Cold War* Cold War History (IF 0.4) 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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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 0.4) 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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The Atlantic realists: empire and international thought between Germany and the United States Cold War History (IF 0.4) 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 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Dmitry Asinovskiy
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Soviet Aid and the Mongolian Economy: The Global South in CMEA, 1962-1991 Cold War History (IF 0.4) 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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‘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 0.4) 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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Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain Cold War History (IF 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Timothy Riggio Quevillon
Published in Cold War History (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2024)
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Protestant missionaries and humanitarianism in the DRC: the politics of aid in Cold War Africa Cold War History (IF 0.4) 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 0.4) 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 0.4) 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)