West Germany, the global south and the Cold War / edited by Agnes Bresselau von Bressendorf, Elke Seefried and Christian F. Ostermann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bresselau von Bressensdorf, Agnes, editor.

Seefried, Elke, editor.

Ostermann, Christian F., editor.

Series:

German yearbook of contemporary history ; v. 2.

German yearbook of contemporary history ; volume 2

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

History, Modern--1945-1989.

History, Modern.

Physical Description:

221 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg [2017]

Summary:

With its accession to membership of the United Nations in the early 1970s, the Federal Republic of Germany found new scope for its foreign policy, and it was at a time when the global North-South divide became a focus point of international politics. This is the background to the articles in the second volume of the German Yearbook of Contemporary History, edited by two historians from the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin) - Agnes Bresselau von Bressensdorf and Elke Seefried - together with Christian Ostermann from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. The yearbook deals with West Germany during a time of Cold War confrontation, issues of human rights and threat from radical Islam. Selected contributions from the quarterly Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte offer detailed analyses of West German policies toward Cambodia, Chile, Iran and Afghanistan, and international experts provide a vivid commentary. The German Yearbook of Contemporary History is published by the Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin.

Contents:

Introduction: West Germany and the Global South in the Cold War Era / Bressensdorf, Agnes Bresselau von / Seefried, Elke

From Sihanouk to Pol Pot / Szatkowski, Tim

Cold War Myopia / Patel, Kiran Klaus

Chile as a Litmus Test / Dufner, Georg J.

Stabilizing the Global South / Gray, William Glenn

Between the Shah and Khomeini / Bösch, Frank

Islam as an Underestimated Challenge / Bressensdorf, Agnes Bresselau von

Bringing the Cold War Back Home / Greiner, Bernd.

Notes:

"Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte"--Cover.

Consists of English translations of articles that originally appeared in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, along with some new content, also in English.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110520194

3110520192

OCLC:

970683718

Publisher Number:

99976739336