Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War: Agents, Activities, and Networks

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The American Society of African Culture: The CIA and Transnational Networks of African Diaspora Intellectuals in the Cold War....Pages 23-34
The Nordic Trade Union Movement and Transnational Anti-Communist Networks in the Early Cold War....Pages 35-49
“Brother Tronchet”: A Swiss Trade Union Leader within the US Sphere of Influence....Pages 50-63
Not an “Ugly American”: Sal Tas, a Dutch Reporter as Agent of the West in Africa....Pages 64-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Paix et liberté: A Transnational Anti-Communist Network....Pages 81-95
The Assembly of Captive European Nations: A Transnational Organization and Tool of Anti-Communist Propaganda....Pages 96-112
The World Anti-Communist League: Origins, Structures and Activities....Pages 113-129
Interdoc, Western Anti-Communism and the Transnational Imperative....Pages 130-145
The Heyday of Britain’s Cold War Think Tank: Brian Crozier and the Institute for the Study of Conflict, 1970–79....Pages 146-160
A Global Crusade against Communism: The Cercle in the “Second Cold War”....Pages 161-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
The Sovietology of Józef M. Bocheński: Transnational Activism in Catholic Switzerland, 1955–65....Pages 177-188
Suzanne Labin: Fifty Years of Anti-Communist Agitation....Pages 189-200
The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Rise of a Postwar Classical Liberal Counter-Establishment....Pages 201-217
Better Dead Than Red: Wilhelm Röpke, a Neoliberal Anti-Communist on All Fronts....Pages 218-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Transnational Fundamentalist Anti-Communism: The International Council of Christian Churches....Pages 235-250
The Comité international de défense de la civilisation chrétienne and the Transnationalization of Anti-Communist Propaganda in Western Europe after the Second World War....Pages 251-262
Bible Smuggling and Human Rights in the Cold War....Pages 263-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-292