Author: Bernd Greiner
Publisher: Hamburger Edition HIS
ISBN: 3868545034
Category : History
Languages : de
Pages : 511
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Für den größten Teil der nördlichen Hemisphäre war die Ära des Kalten Krieges eine Phase des Friedens - wenn auch eines unbequemen Friedens, erzwungen durch die Garantie der gegenseitigen nuklearen Vernichtung und gekennzeichnet von ideologischer und materieller Hochrüstung und permanenter Kriegsbereitschaft. Die heißen Kriege des Kalten Krieges aber fanden jenseits des Kernbereichs der beiden feindlichen Blöcke statt. Mehr als 150 größere bewaffnete Konflikte sind zwischen 1945 und 1989 in der Dritten Welt ausgetragen worden. In der Wahrnehmung der Zeitgenossen galten sie mehrheitlich als "Stellvertreterkriege ", in denen die Blockkonfrontation meist ohne direkte Involvierung der Streitkräfte der nördlichen Hemisphäre und ohne das Risiko eines Atomkrieges ausgetragen wurde. Dem Erfolg oder Misserfolg im lokalen Konflikt wurden direkte Konsequenzen für die globale Machtbalance zugeschrieben. Aber wird diese Perspektive der Realität der heißen Kriege gerecht? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes fragen nach dem relativen Gewicht der ideologischen und politischen Konfrontation des Kalten Krieges für die regionalen Auseinandersetzungen - verglichen mit anderen Konfliktlogiken wie dem Erbe kolonialer Herrschaftsbeziehungen, globalstrategischen Faktoren und vor allem regionalen und lokalen Bedingungen. Untersucht werden dabei insbesondere die Handlungsspielräume von Akteuren vor Ort, der Charakter der kriegerischen Auseinandersetzung sowie die Kosten und Konsequenzen für die betroffenen Gesellschaften.
Author: Christine Hatzky
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299301044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Cubans in Angola explores the unique and influential cooperation between two formerly colonized countries separated by the Atlantic Ocean in the global south.
Author: Tobias Ten Brink
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004262229
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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In Global Political Economy and the Modern State System Tobias ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state system, its conflicts, and its transformation.
Author: Dierk Walter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190911204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
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Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Like their predecessors, modern imperial wars are shaped especially by spatial features and by pronounced asymmetries of military organisation, resources, modes of warfare and cultures of violence between the respective parties. Today's imperial wars are essentially civil wars, in which Western powers are only one player among many. As ever, the Western military machine is proving incapable of resolving political strife through force, or of engaging opponents with no reason to offer conventional combat, who instead rely on guerrilla warfare and terrorism. And, as they always have, local populations pay the price for these shortcomings. Colonial Violence aims to offer, for the first time, a coherent explanation of the logic of violent hostilities within the context of European expansion. Walter's analysis reveals parallels between different empires and continuities spanning historical epochs. He concludes that recent Western military interventions, from Afghanistan to Mali, are not new wars, but stand in the 500-year-old tradition of transcultural violent conflict, under the specific conditions of colonialism.
Author: Robert J. McMahon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199912270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Featuring original essays by twelve leading scholars, this collection examines the influence of the newly emerging states of the Third World on the course of the Cold War and on the international behavior and priorities of the two superpowers. It also analyzes the impact of the Cold War on the developing states and societies of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Blending the new, internationalist approaches to the Cold War with the latest research on the global south in a tumultuous era of decolonization and state-building, The Cold War in the Third World bring together diverse strands of scholarship to address some of the most compelling issues in modern world history.
Author: Dieter Krüger
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498569498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
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This edited collection examines the role of the Fulda Gap—located at the border between East and West Germany—in Cold War politics and military strategy. The contributors analyze the strategic deliberations of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the balance of forces, the role of the local peace movement, and various other topics, while weaving together the history of the Cold War at local, European, and global levels.
Author: Helke Rausch
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3647310433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Wenn das 20. Jahrhundert in vielerlei Hinsicht als »American Century« gelten darf, dann haben die großen US-amerikanischen Stiftungen wie Carnegie, Rockefeller und Ford einen erheblichen Anteil daran. Deren globale Netzwerke wurden zu begehrten Instrumenten, um amerikanische Ideen und Werte nach außen zu tragen. Handelte es sich bei den Stiftungen also nur um Handlanger des US-amerikanischen Vorherrschaftsanspruchs? Ihre selbst gewählte Mission und die kritischen Erwartungen ihrer Förderkandidaten und Partner vor Ort stellten ungleich subtilere Ansprüche an das philanthropische Geschäft. Dieser zweisprachige Band zeigt, wie die US-Philanthropie vor allem im Zwischen- und Nachkriegseuropa zu einem politischen Schauplatz ständig ausgehandelter Wissens- und Ordnungsvorstellungen wurde.
Author: Wolfgang Mueller
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000785017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization. Although the consequences of globalization have received ample attention in both academia and the public discourse, only limited attention has so far been given to the factors that instigated various waves of this process. This holds particularly true for the period following World War II, during which a struggle between the two global blocs fanned not only technological innovations but also their transfer. This volume is dedicated to examining the links between the Cold War and this phase in the history of globalization, a phase that gradually made the world—despite high levels of international tension—more and more inter-related. More specifically, it anchors a very contemporary phenomenon to its historical context and pinpoints how the varied and multi-layered East-West interactions helped to induce and foster the globalization processes. Emphasizing technology and its cross-bloc flows, as well as several levels of actors, including states, private companies, and individuals, this volume reflects an important shift towards "transnationalism" which has occurred in the historiography in the recent years. This book will be of interest to students of Cold War Studies, science and technology studies, and International Relations.
Author: Jonas Kreienbaum
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789203279
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa—in which thousands of prisoners died in appalling conditions—become widely known beyond a handful of specialists. Although they preceded the Third Reich by many decades, the camps’ newfound notoriety has led many to ask to what extent they anticipated the horrors of the Holocaust. Were they designed for mass killing, a misbegotten attempt at modernization, or something else entirely? A Sad Fiasco confronts this difficult question head-on, reconstructing the actions of colonial officials in both British South Africa and German South-West Africa as well as the experiences of internees to explore both the similarities and the divergences between the African camps and their Nazi-era successors.
Author: Gerald Stourzh
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498587879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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This study provides a comprehensive examination of the East–West occupation of Austria from the end of World War II to the signing of the Austrian State Treaty in 1955. Examining US, Soviet, British, French, and Austrian sources, the authors trace the complex negotiation process that led to the signing of the treaty.
