Cold War Research Group

We are delighted to announce that Jan Koura, Head of CWRG, has won the Vasileios Fouskas and Bülent Gökay Best Article of the Year Award for his article, “In the Service of the Eastern Bloc: Czechoslovak Intelligence and the Cyprus Conflict, 1974–1989”, published last year in the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. 🇨🇾🇨🇿

Congratulations on this extraordinary achievement! 🥳👏

Vasileios Fouskas and Bülent Gökay Best Article of the Year Award in the Study of International Economics, Politics and History of the Balkans and the Near East Explore the article collection: Vasileios Fouskas and Bülent Gökay Best Article of the Year Award in the Study of International Economics, Politics and History of the Balkans and the Near East. Published in Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.

Maroš Timko, one of our most active members, just published his new book in Spanish in Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales. The book is a revised version of his PhD thesis defended three years ago and concerns with the Czechoslovak-Spanish relations in the early Cold War, including the role of the Spanish Communist Party. Congratulations!