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There is still a gap in how the period after 1989-1991 is
conceptualised. The proposed book's challenging designation of the
'transatlantic era' as the motif for 1989-2020 enables the reader
to think differently about the period we have been living through.
The separation of the 1989-2020 period into three clearly
marked-out decades works well for structuring the book, providing a
clear overview and supportive base for the book's principal
argument. Accessible for BA and MA students. Makes full use of
online support with the key documents provided in the book
supplemented by a selection of background documents from before
1991.
There is still a gap in how the period after 1989-1991 is
conceptualised. The proposed book's challenging designation of the
'transatlantic era' as the motif for 1989-2020 enables the reader
to think differently about the period we have been living through.
The separation of the 1989-2020 period into three clearly
marked-out decades works well for structuring the book, providing a
clear overview and supportive base for the book's principal
argument. Accessible for BA and MA students. Makes full use of
online support with the key documents provided in the book
supplemented by a selection of background documents from before
1991.
The idea of the Cold War as a propaganda contest as opposed to a
military conflict is being increasingly accepted. This has led to a
re-evaluation of the relationship between economic policies,
political agendas and cultural activities in Western Europe post
1945.
This book provides an important cross-section of case studies that
highlight the connections between overt/covert activities and
cultural/political agendas during the early Cold War. It therefore
provides a valuable bridge between diplomatic and intelligence
research and represents an important contribution towards our
understanding of the significance and consequences of this linkage
for the shaping of post-war democratic societies.
The idea of the Cold War as a propaganda contest as opposed to a
military conflict is being increasingly accepted. This has led to a
re-evaluation of the relationship between economic policies,
political agendas and cultural activities in Western Europe post
1945.
This book provides an important cross-section of case studies that
highlight the connections between overt/covert activities and
cultural/political agendas during the early Cold War. It therefore
provides a valuable bridge between diplomatic and intelligence
research and represents an important contribution towards our
understanding of the significance and consequences of this linkage
for the shaping of post-war democratic societies.
This book analyses a key episode in the cultural Cold War - the formation of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Whilst the Congress was established to defend cultural values and freedom of expression in the Cold War Struggle, its close association with the CIA later undermined its claims to intellectual independence or non-political autonomy. By examining the formation of the Congress and its early years of existence in relation to broader issues of US-European relations, Giles Scott-Smith reveals a more complex interpretation of the story. The Politics of Apolitical Culture provides an in-depth picture of the various links between the political, economic and cultural realms which led to the Congress. eBook available with sample pages: 0203471733
Despite increasing scholarship on the cultural Cold War, focus has
been persistently been fixed on superpowers and their actions,
missing the important role played by individuals and organizations
all over Europe during the Cold War years. This volume focuses on
cultural diplomacy and artistic interaction between Eastern and
Western Europe after 1945. It aims at providing an essentially
European point of view on the cultural Cold War, providing fresh
insight into little known connections and cooperation in different
artistic fields. Chapters of the volume address photography and
architecture, popular as well as classical music, theatre and film,
and fine arts. By examining different actors ranging from
individuals to organizations such as universities, the volume
brings new perspective on the mechanisms and workings of the
cultural Cold War. Finally, the volume estimates the pertinence of
the Cold War and its influence in post-1991 world. The volume
offers an overview on the role culture played in international
politics, as well as its role in the Cold War more generally,
through interesting examples and case studies.
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning
have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth
century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that
received focused attention from nation-states, empires and
international organizations. Global Exchanges provides a
wide-ranging overview of this underresearched topic, examining the
scope, scale and evolution of organized exchanges around the
globe through the twentieth century. In doing so it dramatically
reveals the true extent of organized exchange and its essential
contribution for knowledge transfer, cultural interchange, and the
formation of global networks so often taken for granted today.
This book repositions the groundbreaking Bretton Woods conference
of July 1944 as the first large-scale multilateral North-South
dialogue on global financial governance. It moves beyond the usual
focus on Anglo-American interests by highlighting the influence of
delegations from Latin America, India, the Soviet Union, France,
and others. It also investigates how state and private interests
intermingled, collided, and compromised during the negotiations on
the way to a set of regulations and institutions that still partly
frame global economic governance in the early twenty-first century.
Together, these essays lay the groundwork for a more comprehensive
analysis of Bretton Woods as a pivotal site of multilateralism in
international history.
This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project
by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote
Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with
global Communism during the Cold War. One of the most important
elements of this campaign was a series of journals published around
the world: Encounter, Preuves, Quest, Mundo Nuevo, and many others,
involving many of the most famous intellectuals to promote a global
intellectual community. Some of them, such as Minerva and China
Quarterly, are still going to this day. This study examines when
and why these journals were founded, who ran them, and how we
should understand their cultural message in relation to the secret
patron that paid the bills.
How was anti-communism organised in the West? This book covers the
agents, aims, and arguments of various transnational anti-communist
activists during the Cold War. Existing narratives often place the
United States - and especially the CIA - at the centre of
anti-communist activity. The book instead opens up new fields of
research transnationally.
How was anti-communism organised in the West? This book covers the
agents, aims, and arguments of various transnational anti-communist
activists during the Cold War. Existing narratives often place the
United States - and especially the CIA - at the centre of
anti-communist activity. The book instead opens up new fields of
research transnationally.
Interdoc was established in 1963 by Western intelligence services
as a multinational effort to coordinate an anti-communist
offensive. Drawing on exclusive sources and the memories of its
participants, this book charts Interdoc's campaign, the people and
ideas that lay behind it and the rise and fall of this remarkable
network during the Cold War.
This book analyses a key episode in the cultural Cold War - the
formation of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Whilst the Congress
was established to defend cultural values and freedom of expression
in the Cold War Struggle, its close association with the CIA later
undermined its claims to intellectual independence or non-political
autonomy. By examining the formation of the Congress and its early
years of existence in relation to broader issues of US-European
relations, Giles Scott-Smith reveals a more complex interpretation
of the story. The Politics of Apolitical Culture provides an
in-depth picture of the various links between the political,
economic and cultural realms which led to the Congress.
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning
have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth
century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that
received focused attention from nation-states, empires and
international organizations. Global Exchanges provides a
wide-ranging overview of this underresearched topic, examining the
scope, scale and evolution of organized exchanges around the
globe through the twentieth century. In doing so it dramatically
reveals the true extent of organized exchange and its essential
contribution for knowledge transfer, cultural interchange, and the
formation of global networks so often taken for granted today.
This insightful collection of essays details the political life of
one of the most prominent and gifted American statesmen of the
twentieth century. From his early training in international law to
his five terms in the US Senate, J. William Fulbright (1905--1995)
had a profound influence on US foreign policy, and his vision for
mutual understanding shaped the extraordinary exchange program
bearing his name. As a senator for Arkansas for thirty years and
the longest serving chair of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, Fulbright was one of the most influential figures of
United States politics. His criticism of US involvement in Vietnam
exemplified his belief in the effective management of international
norms by international organizations -- including the United
Nations, which was the subject of his first bill in Congress. Yet
alongside his commitments to liberal internationalism and
multilateral governance, Fulbright was a southern politician who
embraced the interests of the region's conservative white
population. This juxtaposition of biased and broad-minded
objectives shows a divide at the center of Fulbright's vision,
which still has consequences for America's global policies today.
This multidimensional volume covers Fulbright's development as a
national and global voice on foreign relations, as he wrestled with
the political controversies of the US South during the civil rights
movement, worked with and challenged executive power, and shaped
the Fulbright program for educational exchange.
Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of
burgeoning scholarly interest. On the one hand, scholars are
investigating the many ways in which the 1970s constituted a
profound era of transition in the international order. The American
defeat in Vietnam, the breakdown of the Bretton Woods exchange
system and a string of domestic setbacks including Watergate,
Three-Mile Island and reversals during the Carter years all
contributed to a grand reappraisal of the power and prestige of the
United States in the world. In addition, the rise of new global
competitors such as Germany and Japan, the pursuit of detente with
the Soviet Union and the emergence of new private sources of global
power contributed to uncertainty. -- .
Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of
burgeoning scholarly interest. On the one hand, scholars are
investigating the many ways in which the 1970s constituted a
profound era of transition in the international order. The American
defeat in Vietnam, the breakdown of the Bretton Woods exchange
system and a string of domestic setbacks including Watergate,
Three-Mile Island and reversals during the Carter years all
contributed to a grand reappraisal of the power and prestige of the
United States in the world. In addition, the rise of new global
competitors such as Germany and Japan, the pursuit of detente with
the Soviet Union and the emergence of new private sources of global
power contributed to uncertainty. -- .
Interdoc was established in 1963 by Western intelligence services
as a multinational effort to coordinate an anti-communist
offensive. Drawing on exclusive sources and the memories of its
participants, this book charts Interdoc's campaign, the people and
ideas that lay behind it and the rise and fall of this remarkable
network during the Cold War.
This book focuses on the 20th century lives of men and women whose
life-work and life experiences transgressed and surpassed the
national boundaries that existed or emerged in the 20th century.
The chapters explore how these life-stories add innovative
transnational perspectives to the entangled histories of the world
wars, decolonization, the Cold War and post-colonialism. The
subjects vary from artists, intellectuals, and politicians to
ordinary citizens, each with their own unique set of experiences,
interactions and interpretations. They trace the building of
socio-cultural and professional networks, the casual encounters of
everyday life, and the travel, translation, and preserving of life
stories in different media. In these multiple ways the book makes a
strong case for reclaiming lost personal narratives that have been
passed over by more orthodox nation-state focused approaches. These
explorations make use of social and historical categories such as
class, gender, religion and race in a transnational context,
arguing that the transnational characteristics of these categories
overflow the nation-state frame. In this way they can be used to
'unhinge' the primarily national context of history-writing. By
drawing on personal records and other primary sources, the chapters
in this book release many layers of subjectivity otherwise lost,
enabling a richer understanding of how individuals move through,
interact with and are affected by the major events of their time.
"Taking up what the editors refer to as the 'casual border
crossings of everyday life,' this collection considers how lives
are made in, through, beyond, and in spite of, nation-state
configurations. The essays demonstrate that transnational
encounters - human, material, conceptual, and translational -
enable unique and sometimes unexpected contact zones, and further,
show how a transnational lens can complicate and unsettle
understandings of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, but also, and
importantly, life writing and transnationalism themselves." - Prof.
dr. Sonja Boon, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada "This
volume is a call to question national contexts as self-evident
starting points for life writing. Rather than presenting a limiting
method or perspective on the transnational lives of the central
figures (and objects) in each chapter, the authors show that
unhinging the national framework implies grappling with discursive
powers such as archival arrangements, international networks as
legacies of past imperial spaces, and inequalities in terms of
gender, race, class, and language. Unhinging the national framework
also helps demonstrate how national frameworks push and pull, while
transnational allegiances add up, overlap, and conflict. The
evocative episodes of the lives (and in some cases the deaths) of
the volume's historical actors help us, as readers, to reflect on
the continued dominance of national frameworks in our current
globalized world, and what they mean in our own lives." - Prof. dr.
Susan Legene, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
This book focuses on the 20th century lives of men and women whose
life-work and life experiences transgressed and surpassed the
national boundaries that existed or emerged in the 20th century.
The chapters explore how these life-stories add innovative
transnational perspectives to the entangled histories of the world
wars, decolonization, the Cold War and post-colonialism. The
subjects vary from artists, intellectuals, and politicians to
ordinary citizens, each with their own unique set of experiences,
interactions and interpretations. They trace the building of
socio-cultural and professional networks, the casual encounters of
everyday life, and the travel, translation, and preserving of life
stories in different media. In these multiple ways the book makes a
strong case for reclaiming lost personal narratives that have been
passed over by more orthodox nation-state focused approaches. These
explorations make use of social and historical categories such as
class, gender, religion and race in a transnational context,
arguing that the transnational characteristics of these categories
overflow the nation-state frame. In this way they can be used to
'unhinge' the primarily national context of history-writing. By
drawing on personal records and other primary sources, the chapters
in this book release many layers of subjectivity otherwise lost,
enabling a richer understanding of how individuals move through,
interact with and are affected by the major events of their time.
"Taking up what the editors refer to as the 'casual border
crossings of everyday life,' this collection considers how lives
are made in, through, beyond, and in spite of, nation-state
configurations. The essays demonstrate that transnational
encounters - human, material, conceptual, and translational -
enable unique and sometimes unexpected contact zones, and further,
show how a transnational lens can complicate and unsettle
understandings of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, but also, and
importantly, life writing and transnationalism themselves." - Prof.
dr. Sonja Boon, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada "This
volume is a call to question national contexts as self-evident
starting points for life writing. Rather than presenting a limiting
method or perspective on the transnational lives of the central
figures (and objects) in each chapter, the authors show that
unhinging the national framework implies grappling with discursive
powers such as archival arrangements, international networks as
legacies of past imperial spaces, and inequalities in terms of
gender, race, class, and language. Unhinging the national framework
also helps demonstrate how national frameworks push and pull, while
transnational allegiances add up, overlap, and conflict. The
evocative episodes of the lives (and in some cases the deaths) of
the volume's historical actors help us, as readers, to reflect on
the continued dominance of national frameworks in our current
globalized world, and what they mean in our own lives." - Prof. dr.
Susan Legene, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
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