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Index
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I The Re-Discovery of the Third World
Part II ‘Intermediaries’: Spies, Journalists, Doctors, Teachers and Diplomats in the Third World
Part III Money and Influence: Diplomacy, Trade and Aid
PART I The Re-Discovery of the Third World
1. Ulbricht, Nasser and Khrushchev: The GDR's Search for Diplomatic Recognition and the Suez Crisis, 1956
Chasing Sovereignty, German-Style
Ulbricht's Frustration
The Suez Crisis – an East German Opportunity?
Conclusion
2. Reassuring Comrades and Courting the Non-Aligned: Poland, the 1957 Goodwill Tour in Asia and the Post-October Diplomacy
Engaging Asia
Reassuring Allies and Shaping the Bloc: Cyrankiewicz in the Far East
Counting on Non-Alignment? Cyrankiewicz in South East Asia
Conclusion
3. ‘They are as Businesslike on that side of the Iron Curtain as they are on this': Czechoslovakia and British Guiana
Stalinism and the Early Thaw, 1948–58
Latin American Communism Ascendant, 1959–63
Czechoslovak Decline; Guianese Disaster, 1964–6
Conclusion
4. The Third World as Strategic Option: Romanian Relations with Developing States
Small-State Theory and Third World Activism
The Six Day War and its Aftermath
Before and After the October War
The Third World in Romanian Strategy
PART II ‘Intermediaries’: Spies, Journalists, Doctors, Teachers and Diplomats in the Third World
5. Cold War on the Cheap: Soviet and Czechoslovak Intelligence in the Congo, 1960–3
The KGB–StB Mission in Léopoldville, 1960
Arms for Gizenga, 1961
Czechoslovak Plans for the Congo, 1962–4
Conclusion
6. Press, Propaganda and the German Democratic Republic's Search for Recognition in Tanzania, 1964–72
The Inter-German Cold War Comes to Tanzania
The ADN and the Nationalist
Tanzanian Politics, Cold War Interventions and the GDR
Exploiting West German Policy in Southern Africa
Conclusion
7. Medicine, Economics and Foreign Policy: East German Medical Academics in the Global South during the 1950s and 1960s
Official Policy and Personal Motivation
Medical Research
Trade in Pharmaceutical Products
Conclusion
8. Lost Illusions: The Limits of Communist Poland's Involvement in Cold War Africa
Gomułka's Phase: Economic Opportunities vs. Ideological Principles
Gierek's Phase: Support for Anti-Colonial Movements and the Development of Economic Ties
Conclusion
PART III Money and Influence: Diplomacy, Aid and Trade
9. Romania Blocks Mongolia's Accession to the Warsaw Treaty Organization: The Roots of Romania's Involvement in the Sino–Soviet Dispute
Introduction
Mongolia's Request for Admission
Secret Romanian–Soviet Talks
Conclusion
10. Czechoslovak Assistance to Kenya and Uganda, 1962–8
Czechoslovak Relations with Kenya Prior to Independence
Czechoslovak Relations with Uganda Prior to Independence
Foreign Military Aid to Kenya and Uganda
Unfulfilled Expectations
Conclusion
11. Unfulfilled Promised Lands: Missed Potentials in Relations between Hungary and the Countries of the Middle East, 1955–75
Diplomatic Relations Before the 1956 Revolution
The 1956 Revolution in the Mirror of Middle Eastern Relations
Relations After the End of Diplomatic Isolation
Relations with Israel
Economic Relations: When the East becomes ‘West’
‘Special Goods’
Conclusion
12. Bulgarian Military and Humanitarian Aid to Third World Countries: 1955–75
The Middle East
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Conclusion
Conclusion
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