Alternative Globalisation? Spaces of Economic Interaction between the "Socialist Camp" and the "Global South"

Abstract

During the Cold War, alternative globalization projects were underway: socialist Eastern Europe and left-leaning countries in the Third World maintained close economic relations. The two worlds traded and exchanged know-how and technology. This book examines the specific spaces of interaction of these exchanges and discusses the consequences for those projects of globalization undertaken in both world regions.

Biographical Note

Dr. Anna Calori (SFB 1199 & University of Exeter)

Anna Calori completed her PhD in contemporary History at the University of Exeter, as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project “1989 after 1989 – Rethinking the Fall of State Socialism in Global Perspective”. She is a graduate of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at UCL, where she completed her MA studies in 2012. She has held research fellowships at the Centre for South East European Studies, University of Graz, and the Chair of East European History at the University of Konstanz. Before joining the Imre Kertesz Kolleg in 2020, she held an EEGA Fellowship at the Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig. She has also worked in the NGO-sector in Italy and Kosovo, and more recently at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva.

Bence Kocsev (SFB 1199)

Kocsev is a researcher working in the SFB project B3 „East-South Relations during the Global Cold War: Economic Activities and Area Studies Interests of East Central European CMEA Countries in Africa”. After having studied history and sociology in Budapest and Amsterdam he earned my MA degree in history from the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary). During his studies he focused on the contemporary history of East-Africa and on the Afro-Asian relations. Currently Kocsev is doing my PhD in which he focuses on the question how Hungary contributed to the solution of the African economic problems during the Global Cold War and in doing so how the Hungarian researchers enriched the global corpus of the African studies.