Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World

Aid and Influence in the Cold War

Philip E. Muehlenbeck, Natalia Telepneva (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2018
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78831-055-0 (ISBN)

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It was long assumed that the Soviet Union dictated Warsaw Pact policy in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America (known as the 'Third World' during the Cold War). Although the post-1991 opening of archives has demonstrated this to be untrue, there has still been no holistic volume examining the topic in detail. Such a comprehensive and nuanced treatment is virtually impossible for the individual scholar thanks to the linguistic and practical difficulties in satisfactorily covering all of the so-called 'junior members' of the Warsaw Pact. This important book fills that void and examines the agency of these states - Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania - and their international interactions during the 'discovery' of the 'Third World' from the 1950s to the 1970s. Building upon recent scholarship and working from a diverse range of new archival sources, contributors study the diplomacy of the eastern and central European communist states to reveal their myriad motivations and goals (importantly often in direct conflict with Soviet directives).
This work, the first revisionist review of the role of the junior members as a whole, will be of interest to all scholars of the Cold War, whatever their geographical focus.

Philip Muehlenbeck is a professorial lecturer in history at the George Washington University. He is author of Czechoslovakia in Africa, 1945-1968 and Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders, as well as editor of several collections. Natalia Telepneva is a post-doctoral fellow at University College London and a member of the international Socialism Goes Global research project team. She completed her PhD at the London School of Economics.

Introduction
Philip E. Muehlenbeck, George Washington University & Natalia Telepneva, University College London

Czechoslovakia

Chapter 1: The Warsaw Pact and British Guiana
Jan Koura, Charles University and Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., Ohio Northern University

Chapter 2: Eastern Bloc Intelligence and the Congo Crisis, 1955–64
Natalia Telepneva, University College London

Chapter 3: Czechoslovak Assistance to Kenya & Uganda, 1962–8
Philip E. Muehlenbeck, George Washington University

Poland

Chapter 4:“I have to say that Cyrankiewicz touring Asia left a very anti-Soviet mark.” Poland, the 1957
Goodwill Tour in Asia, and the Post-October Diplomacy
Marek W. Rutkowski, National University of Singapore

Chapter 5: Lost Illusions: Communist Poland’s Involvements in Africa during the Cold War
Przemys?aw Gasztold-Se?, Institute of National Remembrance/Warsaw University

East Germany

Chapter 6: Health-Related Activities of the German Democratic Republic in West Africa during the 1960s
Iris Borowy, RWTH Aachen/Birkbeck University, London

Chapter 7: The Inter-German Cold War and the GDR’s Search for Recognition in Tanzania, 1964–72
George Roberts, University of Warwick

Romania

Chapter 8: Romania Blocks Mongolia’s Accession to the Warsaw Treaty Organization: The Roots of
Romania’s Involvement in the Sino-Soviet Dispute
Elena Dragomir, Valahia University of Târgovi?te (Romania)

Chapter 9: The Third World As Strategic Option: Romanian Relations with Developing States
Larry L. Watts, University of Bucharest

Bulgaria

Chapter 10: Bulgaria and Warsaw Pact Policy in the Developing World
Jordan Baev, Rakovski National Defense Academy, Sofia

Hungary

Chapter 11: Hungary and the Middle East, 1955-75
Csaba Békés, Corvinus University of Budapest and Dániel Vékony, Corvinus University of
Budapest

Chapter 12: Relations between Hungary and Brazil in a Latin American Framework, 1955–75
Bernadett Lehoczki, Corvinus University of Budapest

Erscheinungsdatum	29.08.2018
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	578 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78831-055-1 / 1788310551
ISBN-13	978-1-78831-055-0 / 9781788310550
Zustand	Neuware