.... Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Struggle for National Liberation: The Caribbean Labour Congress and the Cold War, 1945-1952 0. Nigel Bolland In 1945, the year that the Caribbean Labour Con- Cold War was declared. Churchill’s speech at Fulton, gress was established...

... twentieth century between elite Indian scientific and technological actors and the forces of modernization. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Making Space for the Nation Satellite Television, Indian Scientific Elites, and the Cold War Asif Siddiqi n the introduction to his classic...

... to politics of the Cold War competition, global intellectual trends, and decolonization movements. In this context, the article focuses on the Islamist appropriation of Arnold Toynbee's ideas on civilizational relations in world history and how Toynbee's writings were utilized in critiques of modernization...

...Begüm Adalet This article assesses James Baldwin’s status as a symbol of third world solidarity by situating his nonfiction writings in the context of his travels to France, Turkey, Israel, and West Africa, as well as the Cold War institutions and ideologies that shaped the contours of his...

...Asif Siddiqi Abstract This article explores the biography of a network of Soviet telescopic cameras stationed across the African Sahel during the Cold War. Through joint Soviet-African cooperative programs, scientists used these advanced cameras in Egypt, Somalia, Mali, the Sudan, and Chad...

... preempted secular and Cold War imperatives. For literature, wartime chaos punctured the myth of progress and along with it realist literature predicated on a knowable world. After a half century of serving the Arab cause, realism became an overnight anachronism and from its grip emerged the Lebanese war...

..., instantiates an antecedent of postcolonial critique and represents a decidedly anti-Eurocentric, internationalist project that held the promise of Global South comparatism. Halim’s article discusses selected issues raised in Lotus , considers the curtailment of its potential by the Cold War, and reflects...

... and conceptions of development and neoliberalism after the Cold War. It further takes up the debates in South Africa, the last African country to confront the dilemmas of decolonization in the sphere of knowledge production, most acutely expressed through the Rhodes Must Fall movement and other student movements...

...Arvind Rajagopal The conclusion of the Cold War era led to triumphal predictions about the end of history. In fact, the moment marked an end to mass utopias, that is, to the widespread belief in collective emancipation fostered by technologies of the modern state. To reflect on utopia as both...

... and that of the anticolonial national movements. In the period of the Cold War and decolonization, a movement among nonaligned countries sought to preserve the legacy of anticolonial internationalism. Until the 1960s, the violation of human rights was largely seen as related to the persistence of colonial rule and racial...

... and civilizational theorists. This alternative perspective is useful to grasp the powerful new social reality in the form of militant Islam that has been unleashed since the end of the Cold War: altering culture, language, social, and political policy, while targeting women in many Muslim-majority societies. I argue...

...Arash Davari Abstract This essay extends themes in Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) by introducing Iran as a mediating element in Cold War worldmaking. It recovers the story of Pahlavi Iran's diplomatic efforts during the Sixth Special...

... the “African-Soviet Modern,” an asymmetrical combination of aspiration, materiality, and practice that was rooted in diverse African states and in the Soviet Union. As an analytical category, the African-Soviet Modern speaks to the gap between the grand rhetorical and ideological scope of the Cold War moment...

... the Cold War superpower confidently guiding its impact, it appears here as an intimate part of an African-managed infrastructure of political exile. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Gwambe's move to Ghana opened a path for Soviet and other Eastern bloc aid. Indeed, his time in Accra...

... von Stalin bis Breznev (Soviet Union and the Third World: USSR, State Socialism, and Anticolonialisms in the Cold War) . Stuttgart : F. Steiner , 2006 . David-Fox Michael . “ The Implications of Transnationalism .” Kritika 12 ( 2011 ): 885 – 904 . Engerman David C. Know...

... geography that disrupts the Cold War binary. The space, in which a Soviet-African Modern emerged, was profoundly shaped by the intellectual and professional mobilities of actors, crossing the boundaries of the Cold War, the Atlantic, the world of former empires, as well as different Pan-African imaginaries...

... on how we understand global politics. Pondering There are few critical moments in history that the events that preceded and followed the Cold compel societies to rethink the organizing con- War era, he argues that the political mechanisms structs around which we understand our social...

... and Foreign Policy Strategies in an Uncertain World, 1929-1939 . New York : Brill , 1998 . Boden Ragna . “ Cold War Economics: Soviet Aid to Indonesia .” Journal of Cold War Studies 10 ( 2008 ): 110 – 28 . Carr Edward Hallett . The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923 , vol. 3...

... World, many countries — ​but especially ence.10 The Soviets went to India as teachers, and India — ​became a new sort of Cold War hotspot, the lesson plans were worked out in advance. defined not by the fact or even the threat of armed Three months later Soviet aid moved from conflict...

... , 1984 . Bradley Mark Philip . “ Decolonization, the Global South and the Cold War, 1919-1961 .” In Cambridge History of the Cold War , edited by Leffler Melvyn P. Westad Odd Arne . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . Burg David . “ The People’s Friendship...