The Body Politic: Leftist Humanitarianism in Latin American Social Medicine [0.03%]
政治的身体:“拉丁美洲社会医学中的左翼人道主义”
Sebastian Fonseca
Sebastian Fonseca
This article examines the transnational network of Latin American Social Medicine, represented by the Latin American Social Medicine Association (ALAMES), as a distinctive form of leftist humanitarianism that emerged during the Cold War. Am...
Overcoming Whiteness? Romanian Humanitarianism in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1960s [0.03%]
超越 whiteness?罗马尼亚在二十世纪六十年代撒哈拉以南非洲的人道主义援助
Bogdan C Iacob
Bogdan C Iacob
In Romania, as throughout state socialist Europe, medical assistance showcased anti-colonial solidarity with newly independent African peoples. The humanism of experts, illuminated through bilateral relations or in campaigns coordinated by ...
Siobhán Hearne
Siobhán Hearne
This special issue places the socialist world at the centre of the modern history of humanitarianism. The contributions bring together a wide range of perspectives to explore the meaning, purpose, and practices of socialist humanitarianism ...
Exporting Socialist Health Care: Soviet Humanitarianism in the Global South [0.03%]
社会主义医疗输出:苏联人道主义在南半球国家的发展
Siobhán Hearne
Siobhán Hearne
This article focuses on three Soviet Red Cross overseas hospitals to examine the contradictions and challenges of socialist humanitarianism in the context of the Cold War. The development of socialist humanitarianism in the Soviet context w...
Friends in High Places? International Banks and the Argentinian Military Dictatorship [0.03%]
在高位的朋友?国际银行与阿根廷军事独裁政权
Carlo Edoardo Altamura
Carlo Edoardo Altamura
The presence of international banks in Argentina remained extremely stable throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The situation changed dramatically after the military coup of 1976 as the number of international banks in the country rapidl...
'No Ski Shoes, Chocolate or Hairsprays': The (Mis)Adventures of European Companies in China, 1978-88 [0.03%]
“没有滑雪鞋、巧克力和发胶的时代”——欧洲公司在中国的(误)遇记(1978-1988)
Ariane Knüsel
Ariane Knüsel
This article discusses the experiences of Western European companies during China's opening to Western trade and investment in the late 1970s and 1980s. While much has been written about the Chinese policies that led to the introduction of ...
Between the Domestic and the Foreign: The KGB and Soviet Muslims in the Late USSR [0.03%]
徘徊于本土与外国之间:晚苏联时期的克格勃和苏联穆斯林
Vassily Klimentov
Vassily Klimentov
This article examines the ambivalence of the Soviet authorities' attitude to and policy toward Soviet Muslims in the 1970s and 1980s. Soviet Muslims were an asset for Soviet foreign policy in Muslim countries, serving as KGB operatives and ...
Mountains of Gold: The Alpine Vaults of the Swiss National Bank, 1939-46 [0.03%]
黄金山:瑞士国家银行的阿尔卑德金库(1939-1946)
Ludo Groen
Ludo Groen
It is widely believed that banks in Switzerland keep their hoards of gold safely in vaults in the city, but during the Second World War, the banks discovered a more efficient, secure, and spacious place for their gold: the Alps. Using built...
Stephen E Mawdsley
Stephen E Mawdsley
Since the 1980s, some commercial airline pilots and flight crews in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia began to report an illness they believed was caused by exposure to contaminated cabin air. Despite a body of scientific rese...
Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy in Croatia and Kosovo [0.03%]
胜利的文化以及克罗地亚和科索沃的基本合法性问题的政治后果
Mieczysław P Boduszyński,Vjeran Pavlaković
Mieczysław P Boduszyński
What are the consequences of a culture of victory in countries undergoing new state formation and democratic transition? In this article, we examine 'foundational legitimacy,' or a hegemonic narrative about the way in which a new state was ...