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Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime This book examines competition and collaboration among Western powers, the socialist bloc, and the Third World for control over humanitarian aid programs during the Cold War. Young-sun Hong’s analysis reevaluates the established parameters of German history. On the one hand, global humanitarian efforts functioned as an arena for athree-waypoliticalpowerstruggle.Ontheotherhand,theygaverise to transnational spaces that allowed for multidimensional social and cultural encounters. Hong paints an unexpected view of the global humanitarian regime: Algerian insurgents flown to East Germany for medicalcare,barefootChinesedoctorsinTanzania,andWestandEast German doctors working together in the Congo. She also provides a richanalysisoftheexperiencesofAfricantraineesandAsiannursesin the two Germanys. This book brings an urgently needed historical perspective to contemporary debates on global governance, which largely concern humanitarianism, global health, South–North relation- ships,andglobalmigration. Young-sun Hong is Associate Professor of History at the State Univer- sityofNewYorkatStonyBrookandtheauthorofWelfare,Modernity andtheWeimarState,1919–1933(1998).ShehasbeenaFellowatthe Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Harvard CenterforEuropeanStudies,andNewYorkUniversity’sInternational Center for Advanced Studies. She has also received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund, the Max Planck Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Social Science Research Council. Honghascontributedtodebatesonmodernityandtransnationalismas part of the H-German Forum on Transnationalism (2006) and the GermanHistoryForumonAsia,Germany,andtheTransnationalTurn (2010).In2008,sheorganizedasessiononAsian-Germanstudiesatthe German Studies Association meeting. Currently, she serves on the edi- torialboardofSocialHistory. For my mentors and friends, Geoff Eley and Michael Geyer, and In memory of my parents Human Rights inHistory Editedby Stefan-LudwigHoffmann,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley SamuelMoyn,HarvardUniversity This series showcases new scholarship exploring the backgrounds of human rights today.Withanopen-endedchronologyandinternationalperspective,theseriesseeks worksattentivetothesurprisesandcontingenciesinthehistoricaloriginsandlegacies of human rights ideals and interventions. Books in the series will focus not only on theintellectualantecedentsandfoundationsofhumanrightsbutalsoontheincorpor- ation of the concept by movements, nation-states, international governance, and transnationallaw. AlsointheSeries FehrenbachandRodogno HumanitarianPhotography:AHistory Hoffmann HumanRightsintheTwentiethCentury Snyder HumanRightsActivismandtheEndofthe ColdWar:ATransnationalHistoryof theHelsinkiNetwork WinterandProst RenéCassinandHumanRights:Fromthe GreatWartotheUniversalDeclaration Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime YOUNG-SUN HONG StateUniversityofNewYorkatStonyBrook 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107095571 ©Young-sunHong2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Hong,Young-Sun,1955– ColdWarGermany,theThirdWorld,andtheglobalhumanitarianregime/ Young-sunHong(StateUniversityofNewYorkatStonyBrook). pages cm.– (Humanrightsinhistory) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-09557-1(Hardback:alkalinepaper) 1. Humanitarianassistance,German–Developingcountries–History–20th century. 2. Medicalassistance,German–Developingcountries–History–20th century. 3. Germany(West)–Relations–Developingcountries. 4. Developingcountries– Relations–Germany(West) 5. Germany(East)–Relations–Developing countries. 6. Developingcountries–Relations–Germany(East) 7. Germany(West)– Relations–Germany(East) 8. Germany(East)–Relations–Germany(West) 9. ColdWar. 10. Balanceofpower–History–20thcentury. I. Title. hv555.g3h662015 361.206094309045–dc23 2014050305 isbn978-1-107-09557-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof urlsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents List of Abbreviations pageix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 part i race, security, and cold war humanitarianism 1 Bipolar (Dis)Order 13 part ii the global humanitarian regime at arms 2 Through a Glass Darkly 51 3 Mission Impossible 83 4 Back to the Future inIndochina 110 5 “Solidarity IsMight!” 132 part iii global health, development, and labor migration 6 Know Your BodyandBuildSocialism 177 7 TheTimeMachine“Development” 215 8 Far Away, but Yet SoClose 250 9 Things Fall Apart 287 Epilogue 317 Notes 321 Index 414 vii
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