2. The “Grapes of Cooperation”? Bulgarian and East German Plans to Build a Syrian Cement Industry from Scratch

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Dialectics of the Global V
3. Preface VII
4. Contents IX
5. 1.` Alternative Globalization? Spaces of Economic Interaction between the “Socialist Camp” and the “Global South” 1
6. 2. The “Grapes of Cooperation”? Bulgarian and East German Plans to Build a Syrian Cement Industry from Scratch 33
7. 3. The Soviet Union, the CMEA, and the Nationalization of the Iraq Petroleum Company, 1967–1979 59
8. 4. Diverging Visions in Revolutionary Spaces: East German Advisers and Revolution from above in Zanzibar, 1964–1970 85
9. 5. The GDR, SWAPO, and Namibia: Economic and Other Interactions in the 1970s and 1980s 117
10. 6. Agents of Decolonization? Romanian Activities in Mozambique’s Oil and Healthcare Sectors, 1976–1984 133
11. 7. Czechoslovak Economic Interests in Angola in the 1970s and 1980s 165
12. 8. Bartering Within and Outside the CMEA: The GDR’s Import of Cuban Fruits and Ethiopian Coffee 197
13. 9. The End of Alternative Spaces of Globalization? Transformations from the 1980s to the 2010s 217
14. List of Contributors 231
15. Index 235