Pub Date : 2023-06-25DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2023.2217753
D. Asinovskiy
{"title":"Rostislav Ulianovskii, the Tudeh Party of Iran and Soviet attempts to set Iran on a non-capitalist path of development (1979–83)","authors":"D. Asinovskiy","doi":"10.1080/14682745.2023.2217753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2217753","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46099,"journal":{"name":"Cold War History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44972119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-25DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2023.2217763
Anatol E. Klass
{"title":"‘China marching with India’: India’s Cold War advocacy for the People’s Republic of China at the United Nations, 1949–1971","authors":"Anatol E. Klass","doi":"10.1080/14682745.2023.2217763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2217763","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46099,"journal":{"name":"Cold War History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47079800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-25DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2023.2217759
A. Calori
{"title":"Cigar socialism: an entangled history of Yugoslav-Cuban relations","authors":"A. Calori","doi":"10.1080/14682745.2023.2217759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2217759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46099,"journal":{"name":"Cold War History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46624834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-25DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2023.2217084
Covell F. Meyskens
{"title":"After empire?: Cold War scholarship on Mao’s China","authors":"Covell F. Meyskens","doi":"10.1080/14682745.2023.2217084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2217084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46099,"journal":{"name":"Cold War History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44899596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2023.2218022
M. Elli
{"title":"Pakistan’s pathway to the bomb. Ambition, politics, and rivalries","authors":"M. Elli","doi":"10.1080/14682745.2023.2218022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2218022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46099,"journal":{"name":"Cold War History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43010341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-17DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2023.2207316
D. Mongin, Maurice Vaïsse
The article ‘Unfit for Purpose: Reassessing the Development and Deployment of French Nuclear Weapons (1956–74)’, which Benoît Pelopidas and Sébastien Philippe coauthored in 2020 in Cold War History, calls for a certain number of comments on our part. These relate, above all, to the scholarly nature of their work, both in terms of content and method. Our comments are all the more forceful in that, although the authors focus on the period from 1956 to 1974, they do not hesitate to extrapolate their conclusions to the contemporary period, so as to cast doubt on French strategy. There is, therefore, a methodological and ideological bias, which, in our view, undermines the scholarly rigour of this publication. The first methodological problem with this article is the implication that it provides new evidence (‘we provide evidence that challenges established claims in French nuclear history’) – in particular through the use of the oral archives of Admiral Marcel Duval, former director of the Revue de défense nationale – by asserting that ‘traditional’ historiography had supposedly failed to cover the difficulties encountered by France in the initial stages of establishing its nuclear deterrent. This assertion is all the more untrue as the article in question is partly based on the consultation of interview transcripts from Admiral Duval with the agreement of Maurice Vaïsse, which was a sign of trust. ‘Technology repeatedly determined French nuclear choices negatively. For example, the decision to build the air component of the nuclear arsenal first was due to the inability to build longrange ballistic missiles’, say Pelopidas and Philippe. But this statement is completely removed from its historical context. In support of this thesis, they cite the case of the Mirage IV bomber, which became operational in 1964. One might mention at this point that there were public announcements by the Mollet Government as early as November 1956 in favour of a mediumand long-range strategic bomber, as the most effective weapon of retaliation until ballistic missiles were ready. Indeed, in the mid1950s, the French government gave priority to the bomber to equip its future nuclear deterrent force, but this was because, at the time, it was the only system likely to become operational in the short term. For the record, the United States had been forced to make the same choice, and the first intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) were not operational until 1960. Moreover, General François Maurin (French Armed Forces Chief of Staff from French Armed Forces Chief of Staff, 1971-75) stated that, after a
{"title":"Response to the article ‘Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–74)’ by Mongin and Vaïsse","authors":"D. Mongin, Maurice Vaïsse","doi":"10.1080/14682745.2023.2207316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2207316","url":null,"abstract":"The article ‘Unfit for Purpose: Reassessing the Development and Deployment of French Nuclear Weapons (1956–74)’, which Benoît Pelopidas and Sébastien Philippe coauthored in 2020 in Cold War History, calls for a certain number of comments on our part. These relate, above all, to the scholarly nature of their work, both in terms of content and method. Our comments are all the more forceful in that, although the authors focus on the period from 1956 to 1974, they do not hesitate to extrapolate their conclusions to the contemporary period, so as to cast doubt on French strategy. There is, therefore, a methodological and ideological bias, which, in our view, undermines the scholarly rigour of this publication. The first methodological problem with this article is the implication that it provides new evidence (‘we provide evidence that challenges established claims in French nuclear history’) – in particular through the use of the oral archives of Admiral Marcel Duval, former director of the Revue de défense nationale – by asserting that ‘traditional’ historiography had supposedly failed to cover the difficulties encountered by France in the initial stages of establishing its nuclear deterrent. This assertion is all the more untrue as the article in question is partly based on the consultation of interview transcripts from Admiral Duval with the agreement of Maurice Vaïsse, which was a sign of trust. ‘Technology repeatedly determined French nuclear choices negatively. For example, the decision to build the air component of the nuclear arsenal first was due to the inability to build longrange ballistic missiles’, say Pelopidas and Philippe. But this statement is completely removed from its historical context. In support of this thesis, they cite the case of the Mirage IV bomber, which became operational in 1964. One might mention at this point that there were public announcements by the Mollet Government as early as November 1956 in favour of a mediumand long-range strategic bomber, as the most effective weapon of retaliation until ballistic missiles were ready. Indeed, in the mid1950s, the French government gave priority to the bomber to equip its future nuclear deterrent force, but this was because, at the time, it was the only system likely to become operational in the short term. For the record, the United States had been forced to make the same choice, and the first intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) were not operational until 1960. Moreover, General François Maurin (French Armed Forces Chief of Staff from French Armed Forces Chief of Staff, 1971-75) stated that, after a","PeriodicalId":46099,"journal":{"name":"Cold War History","volume":"23 1","pages":"459 - 463"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46051292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-17DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2023.2207314
Benoît Pelopidas, Sébastien Philippe
In ‘Unfit for Purpose: Reassessing the Development and Deployment of French Nuclear Weapons (1956–74)’, we developed an interdisciplinary methodology combining archival material from France, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as technical analysis of the performance of French nuclear weapon systems, to reassess the strategic rationality of the first generation of the force de frappe and its credibility. This is particularly important as, over the last three decades, claims about the strategic rationality of the procurement and credibility of the French nuclear force, which are at odds with discoveries about other nuclear weapon programmes, have been made across history and security studies. We found that ‘the development of the French nuclear force was chaotic and absent of any strategic rationality’ (p. 258) and that ‘French nuclear weapons lacked credibility until at least 1974’ (p. 259). We also corrected claims in security studies about the supposed security drivers of the French nuclear procurement strategy and the labelling of the French nuclear posture as ‘asymmetric escalation’, and confirmed an ‘existential deterrence bias’ in existing scholarship. Maurice Vaïsse and Dominique Mongin, in their response to our article, focus on our first two claims only but disprove neither. They engage in a critique of our scholarly methodology and standards, failing to address the fact that the article underwent a rigorous peer-review and editorial process. Finally, they attempt to undermine our findings by casting our work as ‘an ideological attempt to deconstruct history’. On the rationality of French nuclear weapon strategy, Vaïsse and Mongin rely solely on official French stated intentions as if they were adequate and sufficient evidence of the outcomes and technical performance of the arsenal. They are absolutely not, and we have established this in our article. We define ‘rationality’ as
{"title":"Response to the article ‘Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–74)’ by Pelopidas and Philippe","authors":"Benoît Pelopidas, Sébastien Philippe","doi":"10.1080/14682745.2023.2207314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2207314","url":null,"abstract":"In ‘Unfit for Purpose: Reassessing the Development and Deployment of French Nuclear Weapons (1956–74)’, we developed an interdisciplinary methodology combining archival material from France, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as technical analysis of the performance of French nuclear weapon systems, to reassess the strategic rationality of the first generation of the force de frappe and its credibility. This is particularly important as, over the last three decades, claims about the strategic rationality of the procurement and credibility of the French nuclear force, which are at odds with discoveries about other nuclear weapon programmes, have been made across history and security studies. We found that ‘the development of the French nuclear force was chaotic and absent of any strategic rationality’ (p. 258) and that ‘French nuclear weapons lacked credibility until at least 1974’ (p. 259). We also corrected claims in security studies about the supposed security drivers of the French nuclear procurement strategy and the labelling of the French nuclear posture as ‘asymmetric escalation’, and confirmed an ‘existential deterrence bias’ in existing scholarship. Maurice Vaïsse and Dominique Mongin, in their response to our article, focus on our first two claims only but disprove neither. They engage in a critique of our scholarly methodology and standards, failing to address the fact that the article underwent a rigorous peer-review and editorial process. Finally, they attempt to undermine our findings by casting our work as ‘an ideological attempt to deconstruct history’. On the rationality of French nuclear weapon strategy, Vaïsse and Mongin rely solely on official French stated intentions as if they were adequate and sufficient evidence of the outcomes and technical performance of the arsenal. They are absolutely not, and we have established this in our article. We define ‘rationality’ as","PeriodicalId":46099,"journal":{"name":"Cold War History","volume":"23 1","pages":"453 - 457"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43812484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2023.2206649
Diego Barría Traverso, Eduardo Carreño Lara
This study analyses why Cuba, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia attempted to establish air transport agreements with Chile, as well as their objectives and those of their airlines. It also examines the response of the Allende government and other Chilean key actors. The paper shows that the interest in signing these agreements lay in the Socialist bloc countries. Their reasons varied depending on their particular situation and foreign policy goals. By contrast, Chile saw the negotiation of agreements as a means of strengthening its ties with the Soviet bloc.
{"title":"Welcome to Santiago. Commercial aviation relations between Chile and the socialist countries, 1970–1973","authors":"Diego Barría Traverso, Eduardo Carreño Lara","doi":"10.1080/14682745.2023.2206649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2206649","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyses why Cuba, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia attempted to establish air transport agreements with Chile, as well as their objectives and those of their airlines. It also examines the response of the Allende government and other Chilean key actors. The paper shows that the interest in signing these agreements lay in the Socialist bloc countries. Their reasons varied depending on their particular situation and foreign policy goals. By contrast, Chile saw the negotiation of agreements as a means of strengthening its ties with the Soviet bloc.","PeriodicalId":46099,"journal":{"name":"Cold War History","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135215445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2023.2206650
Antonina Łuszczykiewicz
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the image of Taiwan (the Republic of China) in the Polish communist press in the mid-1950s. It focuses on the news coverage related to the two Polish cargo ships – the Praca and the Prezydent Gottwald – which were detained by the Taiwanese authorities in 1953 and 1954, respectively. Based on the press narratives and supported by declassified government documents, the paper analyses the impact of the Cold War conflicts and divisions on the detention of Polish ships and its coverage by the Polish communist media.
{"title":"Pirates and imperialists: Taiwan and the United States in the Polish communist press, 1953-1955","authors":"Antonina Łuszczykiewicz","doi":"10.1080/14682745.2023.2206650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2206650","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyses the image of Taiwan (the Republic of China) in the Polish communist press in the mid-1950s. It focuses on the news coverage related to the two Polish cargo ships – the Praca and the Prezydent Gottwald – which were detained by the Taiwanese authorities in 1953 and 1954, respectively. Based on the press narratives and supported by declassified government documents, the paper analyses the impact of the Cold War conflicts and divisions on the detention of Polish ships and its coverage by the Polish communist media.","PeriodicalId":46099,"journal":{"name":"Cold War History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44041268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2023.2206648
E. Burton
{"title":"From convergence to divergence: Mozambique’s failed campaign to join the CMEA and the reconfiguration of East-South relations","authors":"E. Burton","doi":"10.1080/14682745.2023.2206648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2206648","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46099,"journal":{"name":"Cold War History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43782382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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