The Cold War Re- called
21st Century Perceptions of the Worldwide Geopolitical Tension
Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgment
- Contributors and Editors
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Introduction
- How Okinawa During the Cold War Is Depicted in Social Studies: Analysis of the Courses of Study and Textbook Descriptions
- Sino-Italian Relations during the Cold War (1949–1971)
- The Impact of Maoism on the Architectural Vocabulary, Urban Form and Structure in the Cities of China
- The Malayan Communist Party and the Cold War
- Indonesia During the Cold War Era: A Strengthening Nation with Declining Regional Power
- Southeast Asia and the Cold War: Film and Fiction in the 1950s
- Nepal and the Cold War: Responses to the Regional and Global Power Competition
- From the Azerbaijan Crisis to the Mahabad Republic: The Cold War and Iran
- A Strained Relationship: Turkey and the West in the Cold War
- The Arabs and the Soviets: A Relationship of Necessity and Its Tragic End. An Arab Point of View
- The Effects of the 1956 Hungarian Crisis on the Algerian War
- From Bandung to Ukraine: About Decolonisation and About the Cold War
- Vietnamese ‘Boat People’ and Italian Communism: The Entanglement of Global Humanitarian Crisis and Domestic Politics in the Cold War Divide
- The Cold War at the Romanian-Hungarian Border
- Soviet Marshal Konev’s Posthumous Battle of Municipal District Prague 6
- The Concept of ‘Finlandization’ of Poland: The Geopolitical Reality of Post-Yalta Europe and Polish Aspirations of Self-determination
- The Challenges of Reporting in the Soviet Bloc: Developing and Evaluating Sources
- The Beginning of the End of the ‘other, better’ Germany: Schalck-Golodkowski and the Kommerzielle Koordinierung, 1966–1989
- Peering through the Iron Curtain: Images of the West and the Outline of Reformed Socialism in Werner Bräunig’s Fragmentary Wismut-Novel Rummelplatz (1965/2007)
- Divided Country. Divided City – Border Stories: The German Division (1945–1990) in Selected Feature Films
- Divided and Entangled Memory Cultures: The Impact of the Cold War on Remembrances of World War Two in Germany in Comparative Perspective
- Relearning the Lessons from the Cold War: Sweden Goes ‘back to the future’ with Its Defence and Security Policy
- Finland and the Outbreak of the War in Korea (1950) in Documents of the US Department of State
- Socialist Eastern Central Europe in Finnish Eyes during the Cold War: The Viewpoints of Presidents Juho K. Paasikivi (1946–1956) and Urho K. Kekkonen (1956–1982)
- International Chess and the Cold War
- Internalization of the Cold War in Brazil: The Impeachment of the Brazilian Communist Party (1947–1948)
- Aspects of Brazilian Culture during the Military Dictatorship and the Cold War
- Economic Relations with Great Powers during the Cold War: Perspectives from Argentina and Indonesia
- Cooperation, Turbulent Competition or Cold War: China – USA Big Strategic Game 2022–2049
- On Sleeping War
Acknowledgment
On 6 and 7 May 2021, the commemorative conference ‘Re-collecting the Cold War. 30 Years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain’ was organized by the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies (MUTKU), University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Twenty-eight of thirty chapters published in this book developed from papers originally read during that academic event. We wish to acknowledge the technical assistance and support of research coordinator, Mr. Markku Pöyhönen and lab technician, Mr. Mikko Leimu, both gentlemen from MUTKU, University of Jyväskylä as well as participants from twenty-three countries whose expertise and engagement made this conference successful.
Editors and authors wish to express their gratitude towards the reviewers of particular chapters: Prof Dr Detlev Brunner (Leipzig/Germany), Dr Łukasz Chimiak (Warsaw/Poland), Prof Dr John Connelly (Berkeley, CA/USA), Prof Dr Daho Djerbal (Algiers/Algeria), Dr Renato Alencar Dotta (São Paulo/Brazil), Dr Mathieu Gotteland (Paris/France), Prof Dr Fujio Hara (Tokyo/Japan), Dr Nicholas Hodgin (Cardiff/UK), Prof Dr Monika Hohbein-Deegen (Oshkosh, WI/USA), Dr Petra Hudek (Prague/Czechia, Bratislava/Slovakia), Prof Dr Rada Iveković (Paris/France), Prof Dr Mikołaj S. Jazdon (Poznań/Poland), Prof Dr Stanisław Meyer (Cracow/Poland), Dr Renata Nowaczewska (Szczecin/Poland), Prof Dr Jussi Pakkasvirta (Helsinki/Finland), Prof Dr Cristina Petrescu (Bucharest/Romania), Dr Bogdan Popa (Bucharest/Romania), Dr Ovidiu Raeţchi (Bucharest/Romania), Prof Dr Kimmo Rentola (Helsinki/Finland), Dr Rafael Rezende (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil), Dr Marcin Rzepka (Cracow/Poland), Prof Dr Mohd. Safar Bin Hasim (Bangi/Malaysia), Prof Dr Alfredo Oscar Salun (São Paulo/Brazil), Dr Gary Schaub (Washington, DC/USA), Prof Dr Naoko Shimazu (Singapore), Dr Marcin Styszyński (Poznań/Poland), Dr Jarosław Suchoples (Jyväskylä/Finland), Prof Dr Minna Valjakka (Leiden/Netherlands), Prof Dr Adrian Vickers (Sydney/Australia), Prof Dr Timo Vihavainen (Helsinki/Finland), Dr Natalya Benkhaled-Vince (Oxford/UK), Dr John Whelpton (Hong Kong/China), Dr Alp Yenen (Leiden/Netherlands), Prof Dr Valeria Zanier (Bologna/Italy), Prof Dr Piotr Zwierzchowski (Bydgoszcz/Poland), Prof Dr Stanisław Żerko (Poznań, Gdynia/Poland).
Separate words of gratitude go to Mrs. Nathalie Chamba from Berlin, Germany, for her invaluable editorial assistance. Without her engagement and efforts, publishing of this volume would not have been possible.
The publication of this book is made possible thanks to the financial support by the CRISES profiling area in the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
List of Illustrations
Marek Kozłowski, Yusnani Mohd. Yusof and Simon Huston,
List of Tables
Masahiro Saito,
Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Foreword
The Cold War ended decades ago. Why should we still talk about it? First, because the Cold War is under-researched. What led and still leads in the American public sphere is mostly an atmosphere of self-congratulation, an attitude that spread throughout the Atlantic Anglo-sphere. Second, Francis Fukuyama’s silly idea that the end of the Cold War is ‘the endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of government’ was a huge distraction.1 Third, most or many Cold War effects were in developing countries and at the time engagement with the global South was not as developed as it is now—in the era of the ‘rise of the rest’ and emerging economies. Fourth, because of the level of American influence that was typical of the 1990s (Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, CNN, Barbie) much of the dark Cold War hangover wasn’t visible or prominent. Then it was still an era of American hyper power, optimism about the US economy, about the Washington consensus and the world influence of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Also American democracy at the time seemed to be as dependable as the US dollar.
Details
- Pages
- 728
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631914434
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631914441
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631871454
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21527
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2024 (June)
- Keywords
- Cold War politics economy culture memory USSR Soviet model of Communism
- Published
- Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, 2024. 728 pp., 20 fig. b/w, 11 tables.
