Educational Internationalism in the Cold War

Damiano Matasci is a senior research associate at the University of Geneva. His research explores the history of Europe and colonial Africa in a transnational and transimperial perspective, with a focus on education, childhood, and science. He is the author of Internationaliser l’éducation. La France, l’UNESCO et la fin des empires coloniaux en Afrique, 1945–1961 (2023) and L’école républicaine et l’étranger. Une histoire internationale des réformes scolaires en France, 1870–1914 (2015).Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz is a senior lecturer at the History Department of the University of Lausanne. Her research focuses on the history of international cultural relations and draws on a variety of fields and approaches: history of the media, history of European integration, and digital history. She is the author of La voix de la Suisse à l’étranger. Radio et relations culturelles internationales (1932–1949). She is currently conducting research on the pro-European educational networks during the Cold War. She was a visiting fellow at the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute in Florence and a visiting professor at the Research Center of Excellence “Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe” (LabEx EHNE) in Paris.

• Foreword Introduction: Internationalism, Education, and the Global Cold War Part 1: Rethinking Educational Exchanges and Encounters 1. British European University Interchange Policy (1945–1956): Constructing a European Identity? 2. North Korean Orphans in Poland: Experiences and Legacies of Education in Socialist Internationalism, 1953–1962 3. The France-GDR Friendship Association: An Instrument of the East German Education Diplomacy in France? 4. Building the Bridge: Chinese Immigrant Scholars in American Universities, 1950s–1970s Part 2: Shaping Minds and Societies 5. Knowledge for Free? Why Two US American “Mobile Radioisotope Training Laboratories” Embarked on a World Tour in 1958 6. Assessing the Role of Subnational Actors in Educational Cooperation and Development Aid: The Case of Bavaria 7. Fighting Communism with Political Education: the Schweizerische Aufklärungsdienst and the Anti-Communist Network People and Defence, 1965–1985 Part 3: Models and Counter-Models 8. American Fairs and Soviet Olympiads: Scientific Youth Competitions as Elite Fostering and Cold War Internationalism 9. UNESCO and the Question of Early Childhood Education During the Cold War 10. Envisioning Egalitarian Education: The OECD Perspective on Japanese Education in 1970 Part 4: Views from the Global South 11. From “Mutual Understanding” to Anti-Communist Propaganda? The Institute of International Education and Chile (1919–1961) 12. Fond Hopes and Vital Needs: Abiva Publishing, the UN, and the Philippines’ Internationalist Moment 13. Journalism Training in 1960s East Africa, or the Transferability of a Stapler 14. “It was the time of utopias, of turbulence, the time of Africa”. Algerian Students and French Coopérants in the Global 1960s 15. South-South Development Aid and Collaboration: the “Internationalist Schools” of the Isla de la Juventud in Cuba Conclusion: Sites of Exchange: Locating Mobility in Cold War Internationalisms