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Zusatztext This volume is a major step forward in considering the multiple ways that the Third World ?gured in NSWP policies, and many of the essays weave this story together with the internal machinations of the Pact itself ... It will be an invaluable starting point for anyone who wants to take the Warsaw Pact states seriously as independent actors, and a pointer for future researchers who should start pulling on the threads exposed by these authors. Informationen zum Autor Philip Muehlenbeck is Lecturer in History at the George Washington University, USA. Natalia Telepneva is Lecturer in International History, University of Strathclyde, UK. She is the author of Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975 (2022) and co-edited Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World: Aid and Influence in the Cold War (I.B Tauris, 2018). Vorwort 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). Zusammenfassung 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Philip E. Muehlenbeck, George Washington University & Natalia Telepneva, University College London Czechoslovakia Chapter 1: The Warsaw Pact and British GuianaJan Koura, Charles University and Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., Ohio Northern University Chapter 2: Eastern Bloc Intelligence and the Congo Crisis, 1955–64 Natalia Telepneva, University College London Chapter 3: Czechoslovak Assistance to Kenya & Uganda, 1962–8 Philip E. Muehlenbeck, George Washington University Poland Chapter 4:“I have to say that Cyrankiewicz touring Asia left a very anti-Soviet mark.” Poland, the 1957 Goodwill Tour in Asia, and the Post-October Diplomacy Marek W. Rutkowski, National University of Singapore Chapter 5: Lost Illusions: Communist Poland’s Involvements in Africa during the Cold WarPrzemys?aw Gasztold-Se?, Institute of National Remembrance/Warsaw University East Germany Chapter 6: Health-Related Activities of the German Democratic Republic in West Africa during the 1960s Iris Borowy, RWTH Aachen/Birkbeck University, London Chapter 7: The Inter-German Cold War and the GDR’s Search for Recognition in Tanzania, 1964–72 George Roberts, University of Warwick Romania Chapter 8: Romania Blocks Mongolia’s Accession to the Warsaw Treaty Organization: The Roots of Romania’s Involvement in the Sino-Soviet DisputeElena Dragomir, Valahia University of Târgovi?te (Romania) Chapter 9: The Third World As Strategic Option: Romanian Relations with Developing States Larry L. Watts, University of Bucharest Bulgaria Chapter 10: Bulgaria and Warsaw Pact Policy in the Developing World Jordan Baev, Rakovski National Defense Academy, Sofia Hungary Chapter 11: Hungary and the Middle East, 1955-75 Csaba Békés, ...
