CZECHOSLOVAK-EGYPTIAN RELATIONS AT THE ONSET OF THE COLD WAR: THE WAY TO A PRAGMATIC PARTNERSHIP

• Authors: Taterová Eva
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study examines the turbulent development of Czechoslovak-Egyptian relations from 1948 to 1955. The initially rather strained relations in the late 1940s were replaced by a close partnership between the two countries that resulted in the development of various projects in the fields of political, economic, military, cultural, and scientific cooperation. Such a shift was encouraged both by the internal political changes in Egypt following the events of the July Revolution in 1952 led by the Free Officers Movement, and also by the changing priorities of the Eastern Bloc in the Middle East and North Africa. Czechoslovakia as a Soviet satellite echoed to some extent Soviet attitudes towards the region. The detailed examination of Czech archival sources confirms the importance of Czechoslovak involvement in Egypt at the onset of the Cold War for the whole Eastern Bloc, as in the 1950s Czechoslovakia was not only able to use its former experience and contacts in the country to become one of the most active socialist countries in the area but these activities also had a significant international impact on both the contemporary political situation in the region and the development of the Cold War rivalries that later escalated during the famous Suez Crisis (1956).

Keywords

EN

CZECHOSLOVAKIA; COLD WAR; DIPLOMACY; EGYPT; FOREIGN POLICY

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 318 – 339

Contributors

author

Taterová Eva

• Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vlašská 9, Prague 110 00, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9984-4841

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/aassav.2022.31.2.05