West Germany, the global South and the Cold War
The German Yearbook of Contemporary History is a periodical for English-speaking readers with interest in the history of the 20th and 21st centuries. Each volume is dedicated to a specific topic. It is published annually by the renowned Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin and contains transla...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Berlin Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
[2017]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | German yearbook of contemporary history
volume 2 |
| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | German yearbook of contemporary history |
| Schlagworte: | Cold War. Cold War in literature Electronic books Deutschland Ost-West-Konflikt Nord-Süd-Beziehungen Entwicklungsländer Außenpolitik Geschichte 1955-1990 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | The German Yearbook of Contemporary History is a periodical for English-speaking readers with interest in the history of the 20th and 21st centuries. Each volume is dedicated to a specific topic. It is published annually by the renowned Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin and contains translated articles from the leading German journal Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte as well as previously unpublished articles and commentaries With its accession to membership of the United Nations in the early 1970s, the Federal Republic of Germany found new scope for its foreign policy, and it was at a time when the global North-South divide became a focus point of international politics. This is the background to the articles in the second volume of the German Yearbook of Contemporary History, edited by two historians from the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin) - Agnes Bresselau von Bressensdorf and Elke Seefried - together with Christian Ostermann from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. The current yearbook deals with West Germany during a time of Cold War confrontation, issues of human rights and threat from radical Islam. Selected contributions from the quarterly Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte offer detailed analyses of West German policies toward Cambodia, Chile, Iran and Afghanistan, and international experts provide a vivid commentary. The German Yearbook of Contemporary Historyis published by the Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin. Agnes Bresselau v. Bressensdorf, Elke Seefried, Inst. of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin; Christian Ostermann, Wilson Center, USA. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9783110522990 3110522993 9783110520194 3110520192 |