OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cold War History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘To defend the peace of Asia’: the Chinese Peace Committee and visions of Asian history, 1949–60	7
Il ‘lodo Moro’: terrorismo e ragion di stato, 1969–1986 [The ‘lodo Moro’: terrorism and reason of state, 1969–1986]	4
‘To win the confidence of these curiously twisted and disoriented people’: the Ford Foundation’s Free Russia Fund, George F. Kennan and refugees from the Soviet Union	2
The end of the cold war in Southern Africa: the fall of the nuclear wall	2
No Risk (Reduction), No Reward: Re-examining the 1973 US-Soviet Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War	2
Rethinking the security issue in the China-Burma territorial dispute	2
Pax transatlantica: America and Europe in the post-Cold War era	2
The Central African-Iberian Crossroads: Equatorial Guinea and Spain in US Policy during the 1970s	2
Poland 1945: war and peace	1
The gathering storm: Eduardo Frei’s Revolution in Liberty and Chile’s Cold War	1
Piecing Together a Fragmentary History: African Soldiers from Decolonization to the Post-Cold War World	1
Unknown page of history: the dispatch of Chinese workers to the USSR (1954–1957)	1
Forging the Indian Steel Industry: How Soviet Designs Won the Day	1
The rock star and the dictator: Udo Lindenberg’s East German celebrity diplomacy	1
Helmut Schmidt and British–German relations: a European misunderstanding	1
Cold War Liberation. The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975Natalia Telepneva, *Cold War Liberation. The Soviet Union and the Co*	1
Who Helped the Soviet Bloc Dissidents? Western Subversive Encounters Beyond the Iron Curtain During the Cold War: Narratives, Approaches, Puzzles.	1
Word war during Patrick Hurley’s 1944 mission to China	1
Research Note: Mayibuye Archives and the Cold War in Southern Africa	1
The CMEA and China during the 1950s: scientific-technical cooperation in the socialist world	1
The political partnership between Israel and authoritarian Uruguay, 1972–1980	1
‘Better to be a chicken’s head than an ox’s tail’: Japanese envoy diplomacy in the mediation of Konfrontasi (1965)	1
‘Unwilling to awaken’: The special status of the Poland-China route and Polish-Sino shipping cooperation in the early 1950s	1
A twentieth-century crusade: the Vatican’s battle to remake Christian EuropeGiuliana Chamedes, *A twentieth-century crusade: the Vatican’s battle to remake Christian Eu*	1
Research Notes: Negotiating South African ministerial archives (Defence & Foreign Affairs)	1

Cybernetics on the margins: computer science in Albanian higher education during the Cold War	0
An alternative decolonisation: the Republic of China in the 1947 Asian Relations Conference	0
Reconnecting across the Iron Curtain: Hamburg’s Policy of the Elbe	0
The CIA and creole anticommunism in Cold War Ecuador	0
Beyond the Arc of Crisis: Jimmy Carter and the Arab ‘Radicals,’ 1978–79	0
‘An Agreement to Limit a Basic Human Right’: How the Orderly Departure Programme Reduced Freedom of Movement for Refugees from Vietnam (1979)	0
Development through dispossession: coffee as mutual aid between Vietnam and East Germany	0
All part of the same struggle: Berlin’s role in German-US relations during the Lyndon Johnson presidency	0
A brief encounter: North Korea in the Eurocurrency market, 1973–80	0
Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African liberation and the global Cold War, 1961–1974	0
From convergence to divergence: Mozambique’s failed campaign to join the CMEA and the reconfiguration of East-South relations	0
Internationalism, cooperation and personal entanglements between Cuba, the German Democratic Republic, and Angola in the socialist world	0
Interior's Proper Place: response to Tyler Priest	0
Dragon in the Golden Triangle: military operations of the people’s liberation army in Northern Burma, 1960–1961	0
The Cold War History of Wheat Flour in South Korea, 1945–1960: the Discourse of Corruption and the April Revolution of 1960	0
‘Inexpensive to us and yet very valuable to the impoverished Albanian people’: Covert Foreign Aid and the Anglo-American Subversion of Albania, 1951-55	0
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later	0
The triumph of broken promises: the end of the Cold War and the rise of NeoliberalismFritz Bartel, *The triumph of broken promises: the end of the Cold War and the rise*	0
Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945-1971Tudor, Margot. 2023. *Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekee*	0
Response to the article ‘Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–74)’ by Mongin and Vaïsse	0
Supplied cash and arms but losing anyway: Chinese support of the Lumumbist insurgencies in the Congo Crisis (1959–65)	0
Pirates and imperialists: Taiwan and the United States in the Polish communist press, 1953-1955	0
The Story of Laura. Eastern Bloc Surveillance of Spain in the Late Cold War (1967-1990)	0
‘That is where the similarity ends’: refugee policies, communities, and connections between Cubans and Vietnamese	0
The Sino-ROK chilli pepper trade prior to the establishment of diplomatic relations (1974–1978)	0
Research Notes: A new section of Cold War History	0
Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron CurtainVictor Petrov, *Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgaria*	0
The African Student Movement in the Soviet Union during the 1960s: Pan-Africanism and Communism in the Shadow of Nation-States	0
Teaching anticommunism: Fred Schwarz and American postwar conservatismHubert Villeneuve, *Teaching anticommunism: Fred Schwarz and American postwar conservatism*	0
Collapse: the fall of the Soviet UnionVladislav M. Zubok, *Collapse: the fall of the Soviet Union* (New Haven: Yale University, 2021), x	0
Moscow's heavy shadow: the violent collapse of the USSR	0
Supping with a long spoon in the Indian Ocean: the negotiation of the 1972 Agreement on Economic and Technical Cooperation between Mauritius and the People’s Republic of China	0
Refugee Camps as Spaces of the Global Cold War: Cold War activism and humanitarian action within refugee camps in Honduras during the 1980s	0
Human rights and the Jimmy Carter administration’s policy towards Poland, 1977–80	0
From Imperialists to Pacifists: American Quakers and US-China Relations in the Cold War	0
*For Might and Right: Cold War defense spending and the remaking of American democracy*	0
The West and the birth of Bangladesh: foreign policy in the face of mass atrocity	0
‘Of the utmost importance for the survival of mankind’: The Alerdinck Foundation, the Media, and Citizen Diplomacy to End the Cold War, 1984–1992	0
The war in Ukraine	0
French Nuclear Strategy: The Making of a ‘Consensus’ (1972–1988)	0
The CMEA as a development organisation	0
The Tunisian request: Saharan fallout, US assistance and the making of the International Atomic Energy Agency	0
The first generation of Cuban students in the 1960s Soviet Union: shaping a revolutionary ‘culture of militancy’	0
Magyar-kínai kapcsolatok 1949–1989	0
‘We have to tread warily’: East Pakistan, India and the pitfalls of foreign intervention in the Cold War	0
Round table for the 50 ^th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, part I: America’s Vietnam War	0
Perils, promises and perspectives: nuclear weapons, atomic energy and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in the early Cold War	0
Call for Submissions: Conversations on Cold War History	0
Political beneficiaries of humanitarianism? The FNLA and the Angolan refugee crisis in the Congo (1960–1975)	0
Shaka Zulu in the Polish People’s Republic (PRL): exploring South African-Polish links in the late Cold War	0

Protestant missionaries and humanitarianism in the DRC: the politics of aid in Cold War Africa	0
Introduction: Cold War China, Decolonisation, and the Making of International Order in Asia	0
The consequences of the Cold War for the ANC	0
Refugee transport and the Cold War: the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) and the Hungarian refugees of 1956	0
Swiss expansion in Southeast Asia during the Cold War: Anticommunism and economic liberalism, 1965–90	0
Refuge in Revolution: Chilean and Uruguayan Exiles in Cuba, 1973-1990	0
Research Note: the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) Pamphlet Collection	0
“Poor Devils”: German Contributions to American Flood Relief and the Early Cold War	0
Warsaw and the Fedayeen: Wars in the Middle East, Secret Arms Deals and Polish Relations with the Palestine Liberation Organisation, 1967-1976	0
Poland and European East-West cooperation in the 1970s: the opening up	0
Selling White Australia: the Asian visits fund and assimilation as a foundational concept in Australian Cold War public diplomacy	0
Consuls in the Cold War	0
Soviet judgment at Nuremberg: a new history of the international military tribunal after World War II	0
Decolonization, self-determination, and the rise of global human rights politicsA. Dirk Moses, Marco Duranti and Roland Burke, eds, *Decolonization, self-determination,*	0
Political fallout: nuclear weapons testing and the making of a global environmental crisisToshihiro Higuchi, *Political fallout: nuclear weapons testing and the making*	0
‘Foreign armies are functioning on Asian soil’: India, Indonesian decolonisation and the onset of the Cold War (1945–1949)	0
European socialist regimes’ fateful engagement with the West: national strategies in the long 1970s	0
Round table for the 50 ^th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, part 2: Vietnam’s American War	0
The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History	0
Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German women and the making of a transnational movement	0
Complementary assistance: multilateral exchanges between the Soviet Union, China and Eastern European countries in Cold War Mongolia	0
In search of Islamic legitimacy: the USSR, the Afghan communists and the Muslim world	0
Stalin: passage to revolution	0
Relations Between Turkey’s National Intelligence and Foreign Secret Services Until the Early Cold War	0
African Students in East Germany, 1949–1975	0
Freedom on the offensive: human rights, democracy promotion, and US interventionism in the late Cold WarWilliam Michael Schmidli, *Freedom on the offensive: human right*	0
Burn after reading: Operation Focus and the fictional Nemzeti Ellenzéki Mozgalom in the lead-up to the 1956 Hungarian Uprising	0
Operation Refugee: the Congo Crisis and the end of humanitarian imperialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1960	0
Breaking down bipolarity: Yugoslavia’s foreign relations during the Cold War	0
Mission Impossible: Explaining the Failure of Ho Chi Minh’s Mediation Efforts Inside the Marxist-Leninist World, 1960-1961	0
Clashing visions of non-alignment: the origins of the Cuban-Yugoslav conflict	0
Resistance International: Soviet dissidents, US conservatives, and Cold War ‘anti-communist internationalism’, 1983-93	0
China, Yugoslavia, and socialist worldmaking: convergences and divergences	0
The emergence of global Maoism: China’s red evangelism and the Cambodian communist movement, 1949-1979Matthew Galway, *The emergence of global Maoism: China’s red evang*	0
‘To Defend the Nicaraguan Revolution is to defend Mexico’: Mexican solidarity with the Sandinista Revolution, 1974-82	0
A Brief History of Cold War Liberalism	0
Research Notes Special Collection: the Cold War in Southern Africa	0
The ‘Cosmic Bluff’ Revisited: Extended Nuclear Deterrence in the US–Norway Alliance	0
NATO and the Strategic Defense Initiative: a transatlantic history of the Star Wars programmeLuc-Andre Brunet, ed., *NATO and the Strategic Defense Initiative: a transa*	0
Resurgence of the Cold War state of mind: the debate on constitutional tolerance of socialism vis-à-vis the emerging left in Turkey (1967–1971)	0
South Africa and end of the Cold War	0
The twilight struggle: what the Cold War teaches us about Great Power rivalry today	0
The IMF as a ‘mantle of multilateral anonymity’: US-IMF-Brazil relations, 1956–9	0
Afghan Crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern AfghanistanElizabeth Leake, *Afghan Crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan*	0
Human Rights and the Status of Children as Victims in the Late Cold War	0
The Limits of Partnership: China, the United States, and the Middle East Peace Process, 1977-82	0
Alternative infrastructures: Poland and the shaping of early post-Colonial Nigeria, 1958–1970 ¹	0
Research note: the Cuban Missile Crisis and a war of words in Argentina	0
Professors and Students in the Cultural Cold War: The Case of Ethiopia ^*	0
‘Tangled times’: Central American refugee perspectives on the long Cold War*	0
After empire?: Cold War scholarship on Mao’s China	0
Cold War, Hong Kong and the Self-exiled Chinese Intellectuals in the 1950s and 1960s: a Study of the Exiles’ Cultural and Political Endeavours in the British Colony	0
Comrades at enmity: Pyongyang-Hanoi split after the fall of Saigon	0
The activities of Polish military intelligence under the cover of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, and its impact on the failure of arms control in Korea, 1953–1956	0
A través del Telón de Acero: Historia de las relaciones políticas entre España y la RDA (1973–1990)Xavier María Ramos Diez-Astrain, *A través del Telón de Acero: Histor*	0
Soviet aid and the Mongolian economy: the Global South in CMEA, 1962-1991	0
Rostislav Ulianovskii, the Tudeh Party of Iran and Soviet attempts to set Iran on a non-capitalist path of development (1979–83)	0
Soldiers of Fortune, Soldiers of God: Evangelical Mercenaries and the Making of the Rhodesian-American Religious Lobby, 1965–1980	0
Welcome to Santiago. Commercial aviation relations between Chile and the socialist countries, 1970–1973	0
Pakistan’s pathway to the bomb. Ambition, politics, and rivalries	0
Taking Third World Solidarity with a Pinch of Salt: Socialist Poland’s policies towards 1960s Mali	0
Negotiating Armageddon: civil defence in NATO and Denmark 1949-59	0
No Vietnam in Korea: China’s Cold War strategy and Sino-DPRK relations, 1978-1991	0
The Last Revolution: The Sandinista Insurrection and the Inter-American Cold War	0
Between containment and rollback: the United States and the Cold War in Germany	0
The Atlantic realists: empire and international thought between Germany and the United StatesMatthew Specter, *The Atlantic realists: empire and international thought b*	0
The global interior: mineral frontiers and American power	0
Smooth Transition? Dismantling and Accommodating Colonial Rule in Late 1940s South China	0
Poland and Nicaragua: The Potentials and Limits of Transnational Solidarity, Alliance and Opposition during the 1980s	0
Foreign policy proposals in Mao’s China during the 1960s: a comparative study between those of Wang Jiaxiang and the Four Marshals	0
What it takes to recognise a new government? India’s diplomatic recognition and understanding of Castro’s Cuba	0
Brokering Peace: Japan’s Conflict-Resolution Role in Southeast Asia during the Cold War	0
Response to the article ‘Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–74)’ by Pelopidas and Philippe	0
‘A Fly in the Ointment’: Apartheid South Africa’s Transnational Nuclear Network during the Cold War, 1953–1976	0
Cuban memory wars: retrospective politics in revolution and exile	0
China’s Abandonment of Self-Reliance and Sino-American Opening before 1979	0
Folklore and Global Cross-cultural Communication in the Communist World: Poland and China in the 1950s	0
Finding Nguyen Van Thieu: the value of multinational, multi-archival research	0
Ploughshares and swords: India’s nuclear program in the global Cold WarJayita Sarkar, *Ploughshares and swords: India’s nuclear program in the global Cold War*	0
Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in VietnamDavid L. Prentice, *Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam*	0

Margaret Thatcher, British public opinion and German reunification, 1989–90	0
Ripe for revolution: building socialism in the Third WorldJeremy Friedman, ed., *Ripe for revolution: building socialism in the Third World*	0
Early Cold War intelligence paper mills: the case of the Association of Hungarian Veterans	0
Not one inch: America, Russia and the making of post-Cold War stalemate	0
Une armée de diplomates: Les militaires américains et la France, 1944–1967	0
The Chinese advisory groups in the first Indochina War: their formation, evolution, and disbandment	0
Contra solidarity: revolution and counterrevolution in the united states and nicaragua	0
Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970sKung, Chien-Wen, *Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticomm*	0
Koreagate Revisited: ROK Government Lobbying on the Human Rights Issue	0
Round Table: The end of the Cold War and the end of apartheid, April 1994	0
Revolutionaries for the right: anticommunist internationalism and paramilitary warfare in the Cold War	0
Listening in on the Congo crisis: Swedish radio and the imaginative experience of sudden war-fighting	0
Cigar socialism: an entangled history of Yugoslav-Cuban relations	0
Inspectors for peace: a history of the International Atomic Energy Agency	0
‘Something that apparently troubles the Cubans significantly’: Jimmy Carter’s attempt to pressure Cuba ‘out of Africa’ through the Non-Aligned Movement, 1977-78	0
Mexico and the Balancing of Nuclear Perils and Promises in the 1960s	0
Harnessing the amber waves: U.S. grain embargoes against the Soviet Union and the politics of insecurity, 1975–1980	0
A Comparative Perspective on South Africa’s End of the Cold War	0
The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Regional Cooperation: Germany and the Establishment of the Council of the Baltic Sea States	0
Hungary’s Cold War: international relations from the end of World War II to the fall of the Soviet Union	0
Cold war exiles and the CIA: plotting to free Russia	0
Two Endings: semi-historiographical musings	0
Building the population bomb	0
Retconning the history of covert operations: spy comics at the end of the Cold War	0
‘Nuclear power is not just economics’: atomic energy and economic development in the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant Project (Kanupp), 1955–1965	0
The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History; Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War	0
‘China marching with India’: India’s Cold War advocacy for the People’s Republic of China at the United Nations, 1949–1971	0
Japan’s Mediating Role in Sino-US Relations: The Negotiation of China’s Membership in the Asian Development Bank	0