Bloomsbury Academic
Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World: Aid and Influence in the Cold War
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- Philip E Muehlenbeck
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Paperback
- 9780755600120
- 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.77 inches
- 0.94 pounds
- History > Modern - 20th Century
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
It was long assumed that the Soviet Union dictated Warsaw Pact policy in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America (known as the 'Third World' during the Cold War). Although the post-1991 opening of archives has demonstrated this to be untrue, there has still been no holistic volume examining the topic in detail. Such a comprehensive and nuanced treatment is virtually impossible for the individual scholar thanks to the linguistic and practical difficulties in satisfactorily covering all of the so-called 'junior members' of the Warsaw Pact.
This important book fills that void and examines the agency of these states - Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania - and their international interactions during the 'discovery' of the 'Third World' from the 1950s to the 1970s. Building upon recent scholarship and working from a diverse range of new archival sources, contributors study the diplomacy of the eastern and central European communist states to reveal their myriad motivations and goals (importantly often in direct conflict with Soviet directives).
This work, the first revisionist review of the role of the junior members as a whole, will be of interest to all scholars of the Cold War, whatever their geographical focus.
Author Bio
Philip E. Muehlenbeck is a visiting part-time faculty in Department of History Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.
He is the author of Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders and editor of Religion and the Cold War and Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War.
Education
2001-2007 George Washington University
Doctor of Philosophy, History (received May 2007)
• Dissertation title: Betting on the Dark Horses: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Hope Harrison (chair), Dr. James Hershberg, and Dr. Nemata Blyden.
Master of Arts, History (received August 2003)
1997-2000 Michigan State University
Bachelor of Arts
• Major: History
• Minors: Political Science and Psychology
Source: Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and C-Span.org
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