West Germany, the Global South and the Cold War
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West Germany, the Global South and the Cold War

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West Germany, the Global South and the Cold War

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The German Yearbook of Contemporary History is a periodical for English-speaking readers with interest in the history of the 20th and 21st century. Each volume is dedicated to a specific topic. It is published yearly by the renowned Institut fĂŒr Zeitgeschichte MĂŒnchen-Berlin and contains translated articles from the leading German journal Vierteljahrshefte fĂŒr Zeitgeschichte as well as previously unpublished articles, and commentaries.

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List of Contributors

Agnes Bresselau von Bressensdorf
Staff Historian and Personal Consultant to the Director, Institute for Contemporary History
Munich – Berlin.
Frank Bösch
Director, Centre for Contemporary History
Potsdam; Professor of German and European
History of the 20th Century, University of
Potsdam.
Georg J. Dufner
Historian, Freiburg im Breisgau.
William Glenn Gray
Associate Professor of History, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Bernd Greiner
Head of Berlin Center for Cold War Studies;
Historian, Political Scientist, and Americanist,
Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
Christian F. Ostermann
Director, History and Public Policy Program,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Kiran Klaus Patel
Professor of European and Global History,
Maastricht University; Jean Monnet Chair;
Associate Dean Research.
Elke Seefried
Second Deputy Director, Institute for
Contemporary History Munich – Berlin;
Professor of Modern History, University of Augsburg.
Tim Szatkowski
Staff Historian, Institute for Contemporary
History Munich – Berlin, Foreign Office
Branch.
Endnotes
1 See Dominic Sachsenmaier, Global History, Version 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, February 11, 2010, www.docupedia.de/zg/Sachsenmaier_global_history_v1_en_2010 [accessed August 1, 2017]; Michael Geyer/Charles Bright, World History in a Global Age, in: The American Historical Review 100 (1995), pp. 1034–60; Sebastian Conrad/Andreas Eckert/Ulrike Freitag (eds.), Globalgeschichte. Theorien, AnsĂ€tze, Themen, Frankfurt a. M. 2007.
2 For an overview of scholarships, see Ulrike Lindner, Neuere Kolonialgeschichte und Postcolonial Studies, Version 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, April 15, 2011, www.docupedia.de/zg/Neuere_Kolonialgeschichte_und_Postcolonial_Studies [accessed August 1, 2017]; Sebastian Conrad/Shalini Randeira (eds.), Jenseits des Eurozentrismus. Postkoloniale Perspektiven in den Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Frankfurt a. M. 2002.
3 Matthias Middell, Die Verwandlung der Weltgeschichtsschreibung. Eine Geschichte vom Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts, in: idem (ed.), Die Verwandlung der Weltgeschichtsschreibung, Leipzig 2011, pp. 7–19, here p. 10; see also Hubertus BĂŒschel/Daniel Speich, Einleitung. Konjunkturen, Probleme und Perspektiven der Globalgeschichte von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, in: idem (eds.), Entwicklungswelten. Globalgeschichte der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Frankfurt a. M. 2009, pp. 7–29.
4 See Marc Frey, Entwicklungspolitik, in: Jost DĂŒlffer/Wilfried Loth (eds.), Dimensionen internationaler Geschichte, Munich 2012, pp. 293–312, here p. 293.
5 See Federico Romero, Cold War Historiography at the Crossroads, in: Cold War History 14 (2014), pp. 685–703.
6 See Tony Smith, New Bottles for New Wine. A Pericentric Framework for the Study of the Cold War, in: Diplomatic History 24 (2000), pp. 567–91; David C. Engerman et al. (eds.), Staging Growth. Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War, Amherst (MA)/Boston (MA) 2003; Bernd Greiner/Christian Th. MĂŒller/Dierk Walter (eds.), Heiße Kriege im Kalten Krieg, Hamburg 2006; Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War. Third World Interventions and the Making of our Times, Cambridge/MA 2007; Robert J. McMahon (ed.), The Cold War in the Third World, Oxford/New York 2013.
7 Akira Iriye, Historicizing the Cold War, in: Richard H. Immerman/Petra Goedde (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Cold War, Oxford 2013, pp. 15–31, here p. 17.
8 See Institut fĂŒr Internationale Beziehungen (ed.), Geschichte der Außenpolitik der DDR. Abriß, Berlin (East) 1984, here p. 27.
9 See JĂŒrgen Dinkel, “Dritte Welt” – Geschichte und Semantiken, Version 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, October 6, 2014, www.docupedia.de/zg/Dritte_Welt [accessed August 1, 2017]; Daniel Speich ChassĂ©, Die “Dritte Welt” als Theorieeffekt. Ökonomisches Wissen und globale Differenz, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 41 (2015), pp. 580–612, here pp. 580–81, 607.
10 See for example, Willy Brandt, A Plea for Change. Peace, Justice, Jobs, in: North–South. A Programme for Survival. Report of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, London/Sydney 1980, pp. 7–29, here pp. 11–12.
11 Andrea Hollington et al., Introduction: Concepts of the Global South, in: Voices from around the World 1/2015, www.gssc.uni-koeln.de/node/451 [accessed August 1, 2017]; Mark Philipp Bradley, Decolonization, the global South, and the Cold War, 1919–1962, in: Melvyn P. Leffler/Odd Arne Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, vol. 1, Cambridge 2010, pp. 464–85; Caroline Levander/Walter Mignolo, Introduction. The Global South and World Dis/Order, in: The Global South 5 (2011), pp. 1–11.
12 See Siegfried Baske/Gottfried Zieger (eds.), Die Dritte Welt und die beiden Staaten in Deutschland, Stuttgart 1983; Hans-Joachim Spanger/Lothar Brock, Die beiden deutschen Staaten in der Dritten Welt. Die Entwicklungspolitik der DDR – eine Herausforderung fĂŒr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland?, Opladen 1987; Werner Kilian, Die Hallstein-Doktrin. Der diplomatische Krieg zwischen der BRD und der DDR 1955–1973. Aus den Akten der beiden deutschen Außenministerien, Berlin 2001; William Glenn Gray, Germany’s Cold War. The Global Campaign to Isolate East Germany, 1949–1969, Chapel Hill (NC)/London 2003; Joachim Scholtyseck, Im Schatten der Hallstein-Doktrin. Die globale Konkurrenz zwischen Bundesrepublik und DDR, in: Eckart Conze (ed.), Die Herausforderung des Globalen in der Ära Adenauer, Bonn 2010, pp. 79–97.
13 See Hermann Wentker, Außenpolitik in engen Grenzen. Die DDR im internationalen System 1949–1989, Munich 2007.
14 See Helga Haftendorn, Deutsche Außenpolitik zwischen SelbstbeschrĂ€nkung und Selbstbehauptung 1945–2000, Munich 2001, pp. 173–218; Eckart Conze, Die Suche nach Sicherheit. Eine Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland von 1949 bis in die Gegenwart, Munich 2009, pp. 415–58; Wentker, Außenpolitik, pp. 278–83.
15 See Andreas Wirsching, Abschied vom Provisorium 1982–1990, Munich 2006, pp. 576–90.
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: West Germany and the Global South in the Cold War Era
  6. From Sihanouk to Pol Pot
  7. Cold War Myopia
  8. Chile as a Litmus Test
  9. Stabilizing the Global South
  10. Between the Shah and Khomeini
  11. Islam as an Underestimated Challenge
  12. Bringing the Cold War Back Home
  13. About the Contributions to this Yearbook
  14. List of Contributors