Projects

CWRG cooperates with Cold War International History Project (Wilson Centre). One of the first results of this cooperation was a blog and edition of documents called “Czechoslovakia and the Six-Day War” concerning to the Czechoslovak aid to Egypt and Syria after the Six-day War in 1967.

Members of the group are involved in their individual grant projects (GAČR, GAUK) and also participate in project Kreativita a adaptabilita jako předpoklad úspěchu Evropy v propojeném světě (KREAS) or in programme PROGRES. Since 2021 a research project called „African and Middle Eastern Elites Educated in former Socialist Countries: Studies, Trajectories, and Mindsets” submitted by Constantin Katsakioris within the programme PRIMUS has been solved in cooperation with CWRG.

In 2020 members of CWRG participated on a special issue of revue Paměť a dějiny which was focused on Cold War relations between Czechoslovakia and Africa. This special issue was published as a commemoration of the Year of Africa 60th anniversary. Jan Koura and Mikuláš Pešta were editors of this special issue. Acces to the issue is here.

In January 2021 was published a special issue of International History Review under the title„The Secret Struggle for the Global South“. CWRG members Jan Koura (‘Africanos’ versus ‘Africanitos’ the Soviet-Czechoslovak Competition to Protect the Cuban Revolution) and Mikuláš Pešta („Banking on Military Assistance: Czechoslovakia’s Struggle for Influence and Profit in the Third World 1955–1968“) participated on it. An introduction study was written by editors of the issue Daniela Richterová and Natalia Telepneva, who are collaborators of CWRG.