The Evolution of Contemporary China Studies in Singapore: From the Regional Cold War to the Present
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DOI: 10.1007/s11366-016-9416-0
Abstract: This study provides an overview of the development of contemporary China studies in Singapore from the regional Cold War to the present. It argues that the waxing and waning of China studies in Singapore were… read more here.
Keywords: state; cold war; china; regional cold ... See more keywords
To Engage or Not to Engage? Explaining the Logic of the US’s China Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era
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DOI: 10.1007/s11366-021-09726-7
Abstract: The United States’ (US) changing policy towards China has become one of the most attractive issues in contemporary international politics. To explore the reasons underlying these changes, existing studies adopt four schools of explanation, i.e.,… read more here.
Keywords: post cold; cold war; china; china strategy ... See more keywords
Kazin’s Trilling: A Cold War Portrait
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DOI: 10.1007/s12115-018-0301-7
Abstract: This essay describes the eminent Americanist, critic, and New York intellectual, Alfred Kazin’s creation of a Lionel Trilling “character” in his 1978 autobiography, New York Jew, and his use of that character to critique significant… read more here.
Keywords: cold war; war; trilling cold; kazin trilling ... See more keywords
Reaping what was sown: ontological insecurity and the far-right consequences of anti-communism in Turkish–German Cold War relations
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DOI: 10.1017/npt.2025.10049
Abstract: This article explores how ontological insecurity shaped Cold War collaboration between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and Turkey, and how their shared anti-communist anxiety produced lasting far-right consequences. Drawing on newly examined archival documents,… read more here.
Keywords: ontological insecurity; far right; right consequences; cold war ... See more keywords
Poland's Postwar Trauma and Identity in Pawel Pawlikowski's Films: Reflections on Ida and Cold War
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938920000473
Abstract: Does homecoming epitomize Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski's last two films, Ida (2013) and Cold War (Zimna wojna, 2018)? Considering the box office, the awards won, and the film critics’ response, it seems that the transition… read more here.
Keywords: war; pawel pawlikowski; identity; pawlikowski films ... See more keywords
Cold War Narcotics Trafficking, the Global War on Drugs, and East Germany's Illicit Transnational Entanglements
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938922001042
Abstract: Abstract Although it lacked a significant domestic market for internationally trafficked drugs, East Germany emerged as an important corridor for narcotics smugglers in the 1970s due to its position between supply countries in Asia and… read more here.
Keywords: narcotics trafficking; war; drugs east; geography ... See more keywords
African Students in East Germany, 1949–1975 By Sara Pugach. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2022. Pp. xvii + 256. Paperback $29.95. ISBN: 978-0472055562.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938924000098
Abstract: Sara Pugach ’ s ambitious new study, which has been over ten years in the making, takes as its focus the lives and experiences of numerous African students who came to be educated in the… read more here.
Keywords: history; east germany; cold war; african students ... See more keywords
Mukaddesatçılık: A Cold War Ideology of Muslim Turkish Ressentiment
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DOI: 10.1017/s0020743823000545
Abstract: Abstract This paper introduces mukaddesatçılık as a Cold War ideological position that reconciles Turkish nationalism, religious conservatism, and Islamist revivalism. Mukaddesatçılık channels senses of disempowerment and alienation among people with Islamic and nationalistic sensibilities to… read more here.
Keywords: mukaddesat cold; ideology; sak rek; cold war ... See more keywords
Hollywood Film behind the Iron Curtain: Cold War Nostalgias in Chuck Norris vs Communism (2015)
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DOI: 10.1017/s0021875820001711
Abstract: This article focusses on the American reception of a British–Romanian documentary about the black market for VHS Hollywood films in 1980s Romania. The film uses two different registers of nostalgia. On the one hand, it… read more here.
Keywords: behind iron; film; film behind; cold war ... See more keywords
Disenchanted: Thailand's indigenisation of the American Cold War, seen through the experience of Gordon Young
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DOI: 10.1017/s0022463423000218
Abstract: Oliver Gordon Young was a third-generation American Baptist missionary who served with the Central Intelligence Agency during the 1950s and the United States Agency for International Development during the 1960s. He left Southeast Asia in… read more here.
Keywords: war; disenchanted thailand; cold war; american cold ... See more keywords
Inside the Asian Cold War Intrigues: Revisiting the Taiwan Strait crises
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DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x16000706
Abstract: Abstract This article revisits the issue of the offshore islands in the Taiwan Strait during the Cold War. Benefitting from archival materials only recently made available, specifically Chiang Kai-shek's personal diaries, CIA declassified materials, Taiwanese… read more here.
Keywords: cold war; offshore islands; war; inside asian ... See more keywords