‘The francophone world was set ablaze’: Pan-African intellectuals, European interlocutors and the global Cold War

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-483
Author(s):  
Kaiama L. Glover
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Global Cold War ◽  
African Intellectuals

Hong Kong in the global Cold War

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-153
Author(s):  
John Robert Wood
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Global Cold War

Cold War Activism and Japanese American Exceptionalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane C. Fujino
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
History Of ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
Global Cold War

This study contrasts Japanese American activism, centering on citizenship struggles surrounding the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, to show alternatives to the emergence of the model minority trope. This complexity of activity worked to create and contest the making of a “successful” minority and ideas about U.S. democracy and equality at mid-century. Through a nuanced interpretation, this article reveals how certain narratives relied on a social progress framework and shifting global Cold War politics to create a “Japanese American Exceptionalism.” The little-known history of Japanese American Cold War progressivism shows the forging of deep solidarities and the refusal to promote domestic rights based on empire building. By inserting Japanese Americans into the “Long” freedom movement historiography, this article further examines intergenerational continuities and ruptures.

Hanoi's Diplomatic Front in Sweden: Communist Propaganda Strategies in the Vietnam War

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Perry Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Political Freedoms ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Global Cold War

This article offers a new perspective on the Swedish protests against the Vietnam War by placing it in its broader global Cold War context. As a case study on ‘people's diplomacy’ and ‘united front strategy’, it acknowledges the importance of Chinese and Vietnamese influences on the peace campaigns in Sweden and aims, as far as possible, to reconstruct Hanoi's motives, strategies and actions to create and direct Sweden's policy and opinion on the war. With the extremely generous political freedoms granted it by official Sweden, Hanoi was able to find new international allies as well as organise political propaganda manifestations from their Stockholm base. In the end, North Vietnam's version of the war as being about national liberation fought by a people united in their resistance to a foreign, genocidal, aggressor won a large enough share of the opinion in the West to force the American political leadership to give up the fight. Hanoi's Diplomatic Front in Sweden was one of the important battlefields behind that victory

Cold War Hong Kong

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Global Cold War

In Hong Kong the rules of the global Cold War were often suspended. Or perhaps it is fairer to say that the territory epitomized to the ultimate degree many of the ambiguities and contradictions of the Cold War, a confrontation that, however fierce its rhetoric, was usually characterized by pragmatic caution, at least where the major powers were concerned. The story of Hong Kong during the Cold War reinforces a growing body of scholarship on the period that suggests that, while situating the history of post-1945 Asia in “a globalized Cold War context,” one must also remember that Asia “had its own internal dynamics and trajectories, and it evolved in ways that were not entirely the making of the big powers.”

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