Socialist Development Models for the “Third World” (B03)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 266371360

This project examines the intentions and practices of economic relations between European Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) countries and countries of the Global South as well as the related transfer of the socialist development model. The project focuses on the changes in this model, resulting from the crisis of extensive economic growth in the European CMEA countries, the specific conditions in the countries of Africa and Asia, and the intensifying global entanglements in the 1970s.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1199: Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition
• Applicant Institution: Universität Leipzig
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Frank Hadler; Dr. Uwe Müller; Professor Dr. Stefan Troebst