This article examines the role of three Scandinavian countries - Sweden, Norway and Denmark - in shaping the post-war health landscape in South Korea. During the Korean War, these nations provided crucial medical assistance to United Nations Forces and civilians. After the war, they contributed to the establishment of the National Medical Centre, supplying equipment and collaborating with Korean counterparts to enhance medical education. By analysing primary sources from multiple archives, the article argues that this collaboration not only improved health and welfare in South Korea but also influenced the global health order during the Cold War.
This study assesses public opinion in Britain towards the United States, establishing attitudes at the outset of the Cold War, examining the Suez Crisis and then assessing opinion over the longer-term. Attitudes were responsive to foreign policy crises and superpower relations, but the impact of Suez was generally temporary and modest in scope. The views of party supporters varied over Suez and Vietnam but showed a solid foundation for the Atlanticist orientation of political elites. The paper provides the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of public attitudes in Britain towards US-UK relations in the early decades of the Cold War.
This article examines South Africa's position on the nascent Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty against the backdrop of its lucrative uranium trade, increasing international isolation due to its apartheid policies and continued occupation of South West Africa, the growing influence of the vocal Afro-Asian Bloc and a blooming civil nuclear programme. Pretoria criticised the proposed safeguard systems as ambiguous and consistently portrayed the treaty as discriminatory, hypocritical and a threat to the sovereignty of non-nuclear-weapon states. The article argues, however, that this posturing was a diplomatic fa & ccedil;ade at a time when Pretoria sought to preserve strategic flexibility in an increasingly hostile African continent. It therefore adopted a policy of hedging, challenging key aspects of the emerging NPT-centred nuclear order while avoiding commitments that would constrain its future choices.
