Od internacionalistickej pomoci k pragmatickej spolupráci: priority československého „expertného poradenstva“ v oblasti vedy a vzdelávania pre krajiny Afriky v priebehu 60. a 70. rokov
From internationalist aid to pragmatic cooperation: the priorities of Czechoslovak “expert service” in the field of science and education provided to African countries during the 1960s and 1970s

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the shifting priorities of the Czechoslovak educational development aid to African countries during the 1960s and 1970s within the context of the global system of UNESCO-sponsored development aid programmes. The primary focus is put on the changes in status and contents of services provided by Czechoslovak experts working at scientific and educational institutions in Africa. Drawing on the concept of “semiperipheral postcoloniality” of Hungarian geographer Zoltán Ginelli, the author interprets the growing tendency towards commercialization of Czechoslovak conceptions of expert service and its closer entanglement with international strategies of development aid as one of the means of convergence between the “Western” and “Eastern” models of development and simultaneously as a possible solution to economic stagnation on the domestic front. The study thus contributes to the current debates about the roles of Eastern European states in the global processes of the Cold War as well as their relations to the “Global South.”

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