Between East and South: Spaces of Interaction in the Globalizing Economy of the Cold War

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During the Cold War, alternative globalization projects were underway: socialist Eastern Europe and left-leaning countries in the Third World maintained close economic relations. The two worlds traded and exchanged know-how and technology. This book examines the specific spaces of interaction of these exchanges and discusses the consequences for those projects of globalization undertaken in both world regions. Dialectics of the Global Preface Contents 1.` Alternative Globalization? Spaces of Economic Interaction between the “Socialist Camp” and the “Global South” 2. The “Grapes of Cooperation”? Bulgarian and East German Plans to Build a Syrian Cement Industry from Scratch 3. The Soviet Union, the CMEA, and the Nationalization of the Iraq Petroleum Company, 1967–1979 4. Diverging Visions in Revolutionary Spaces: East German Advisers and Revolution from above in Zanzibar, 1964–1970 5. The GDR, SWAPO, and Namibia: Economic and Other Interactions in the 1970s and 1980s 6. Agents of Decolonization? Romanian Activities in Mozambique’s Oil and Healthcare Sectors, 1976–1984 7. Czechoslovak Economic Interests in Angola in the 1970s and 1980s 8. Bartering Within and Outside the CMEA: The GDR’s Import of Cuban Fruits and Ethiopian Coffee 9. The End of Alternative Spaces of Globalization? Transformations from the 1980s to the 2010s List of Contributors Index