Format:
1 online resource (255 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780367244750
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9781000037364
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Modern History Series
Content:
Red Money for the Global South explores the relationship of the East with the "new" South after decolonization, with a particular focus on the economic motives of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and other parties that were all striving for mutual cooperation
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- Research questions -- Important terms and their analytical application -- Archival sources -- Literature -- Structure of this book -- Part I Inner integration and first contacts with the South -- 1 The dawn of the CMEA -- Out of the ashes of the past? -- The Soviet Union as an "Imperial Scavenger?" -- The founding of the CMEA -- The fundamentals of economic integration -- New endeavors -- The permanent commissions -- The permanent commission for technical assistance -- Conclusion -- 2 Decolonization and the reaction of the East -- Embracing the colonial world -- The short-lived spirit of Bandung -- Differing development models? -- Differing motivations? -- The early years of the PCTA -- The Resource-Program -- Conclusion -- Part II The Complex-Program -- 3 The reforms of 1971 -- The road to the Complex-Program -- The content of the reforms -- Revisions -- The IIB -- Effects on the PCTA -- The Resource-Program II -- Conclusion -- 4 The allure of the West: disintegration in the East? -- Questioning the prevalence of doing business with the West -- Syria and the Soviet bloc -- Cement for Syria: proving the merits of CMEA cooperation? -- Emerging complications -- Sidelining the comrades -- The Lebanese liaison -- A success story? -- Conclusion -- 5 Power and dissent -- Empire, what empire? -- The pillars of empire -- The CMEA as an instrument of imperial control? -- Dissent: the Cuban case -- Dissent: the Romanian case -- The Resource-Program III -- Reasons for the failure -- Conclusion -- Part III Red globalization -- 6 Expansion of the CMEA -- The golden 1970s? -- Relations with Iraq -- The CMEA's treaty with Iraq -- Negotiations with Mexico -- Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua -- New members? -- Conclusion -- 7 The view of the South
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CMEA stipends -- Quantifying the stipend program -- Letters to the Secretariat -- Insights into a prospective member -- An Ethiopian wish list -- Conclusion -- Part IV Financial shockwaves -- 8 The crisis of the 1980s -- The bubble bursts -- First problems -- Crisis meetings -- The East learns from the West -- Expansion of CMEA institutions -- The debts of the South -- Differences among the creditors -- The relevance of Libya for the less developed CMEA countries -- Differences on the "developed" Western periphery of the CMEA -- Polányi's heritage -- Conclusion -- 9 Who belongs to the "Third World", who to the "Second"? Mutual dependencies -- Decreasing competitiveness -- ISI under fire -- Penny pinchers -- Still an attractive partner? -- New projects -- Who has the power? -- Debts and power -- Who is whose periphery? -- Conclusion -- 10 Gorbachev, India, and the CMEA -- CMEA reforms in the 1980s -- Gorbachev and the Global South -- We have a plan -- The Indo-Soviet treaty of 1971 -- Trade patterns with India -- Steel for India -- The long road to Visakhapatnam -- Problems in the field -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Sources and bibliography -- Newspapers -- Archival sources -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Trecker, Max Red Money for the Global South Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2020 ISBN 9780367244750
Language:
English
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