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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 99–117.
Published: 01 May 1997
.... 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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 427–441.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of the Cold War. Tehran's relationship with Pyongyang, spanning nearly four decades, has attracted global attention. There is coverage of the presumed role that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has played in developing the Islamic Republic's missile and nuclear programs, although much...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 337–342.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Rosie Bsheer; Mohammed Alsudairi Abstract This introduction to the special section “Inter-Asian Cold War Linkages” shows how an interdisciplinary group of ten scholars take up the understudied Cold War linkages between the Middle East, on the one hand, and East and South Asia on the other...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 370–385.
Published: 01 December 2023
... medical education faculties prompted the increase of medical labor production for both domestic and diplomatic purposes. Iraq's Cold War medical diplomacy was prismatic, multilateral and multidirectional. The dispensation and reception of biological protection, scientific technologies, and medical labor...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 412–426.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Mohammed Alsudairi Abstract During the course of the Cold War, Saudi Arabia cultivated close relations with the anti-communist states of East Asia. This development, this article argues, was driven by the shared positional marginality experienced by these actors vis-à-vis the Third World bloc...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 471–484.
Published: 01 December 2023
... organizational structures and residential camps from Korea to Saudi Arabia, lives behind which remained hidden from public view. [email protected] janice.h.jeong Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Cold War infrastructure Korea labor military Saudi Arabia Lee...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 35–49.
Published: 01 May 2015
... twentieth century between elite Indian scientific and technological actors and the forces of modernization. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Indian space program modernization theory Cold War atomic bomb satellites television broadcasting Nehru Vietnam War antiwar protests...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 310–323.
Published: 01 August 2015
... 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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 398–411.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra Abstract Scholarship on Saudi involvement in the Cold War emphasizes key developments under King Faisal. This article demonstrates the merits of extending the study of the Saudi role in the Cold War to earlier periods. Examining the career of a little-discussed migrant...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 442–455.
Published: 01 December 2023
...John Chen Abstract Muslim leaders in China experienced political and social fracture and intellectual reorientation as a result of the Chinese Civil War (1945–49) and the early Cold War. Influential Chinese Muslim and Uyghur imams and officials who were once allies and friends found themselves...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 41–55.
Published: 01 May 2021
...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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 508–523.
Published: 01 December 2018
...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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 50–60.
Published: 01 May 2008
... 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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 343–357.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Marral Shamshiri Abstract This article analyzes the material networks, connections, and solidarities formed between revolutionary Iranian and Arab organizations in the Persian Gulf in the 1970s. In the context of decolonization and the Cold War, it explores how the Iranian Left engaged...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 627–635.
Published: 01 December 2020
...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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 2–10.
Published: 01 May 2021
... 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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 11–26.
Published: 01 May 2021
... 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 global 1960s Africa liberation movements political exile Soviet Union Tanzania Cold War...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 544–555.
Published: 01 December 2009
... 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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 309–321.
Published: 01 December 2023
... alliances with Muslim Nigerians. Hajj humanitarianism reveals careful Nigerian negotiations of global politics during the Cold War and non-Western involvement in international humanitarianism, which has been treated as a largely Euro-American phenomenon. [email protected] Copyright ©...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 26–42.
Published: 01 May 2023
... sensitive relation to the dynamics of the Cold War in the 1950s and ’60s. It then discusses how these two Nalanda insitutions speak to issues of heritage diplomacy and the politics of revival in contemporary India and beyond. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke...
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