Jan Koura

🤔 Which role did Czechoslovakia play in building Mali's security infrastructure after independence in the 1960s? More in my new article 👇👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@joseaguilar92_ Congratulations! Happy to hear that the article is already out.

📢My article "The Anticolonial Moment and the Global Influence of the Leipzig School: A Sociology of Cold War Intellectual History" just came out. I inquire how a history book by a communist East German historian ended up taken by the United Nations /1 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Press release about my recently published article 🇨🇾🇨🇿 Czechoslovak Intelligence Operations in Cyprus During the Cold War apnews.com/press-release/…

@BesenyoJ Thank you!

@JanKoura Congratulations!

How did Czechoslovak intelligence interfere in the Cyprus conflict after 1974? Who did it recruit?🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️What were its main intelligence operations in Cyprus? These and other questions are answered in my new article ✍️👇 #spy #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My essay on Philip Muehlenbeck's Czechoslovakia in Africa. The author has used, in my view, very unethical working method, using the archival work of two Czech historians without fully acknowledging it: sd.usd.cas.cz/corproof.php?t…

@Lenocka29 Jmeno uz je davno zname idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/…

Tenhle student zachránil život mojí kolegyni a studentce, co s ní konzultovala v posluchárně. A jistě i desítkám, ne-li stovkám dalších lidí. Je to na metál. I když zatím nechtěl, aby se zveřejnilo jeho jméno. irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/f…

@Lenocka29 @mysikralovna Vsechny navrhy evidujeme, dekujeme za ne. Jeste ale shromazdujeme dalsi navrhy a svedectvi. Oceneni prijdou!

@mysikralovna Kolegyně psala už koncem loň. roku na děkanát, různým lidem. Bez pdpovědi zatím🤷‍♀️ Ale podat návrh na vyznamenání lze i jinými cestami.

✍️ V časopise International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence byl publikován článek „In the Shadow of the KGB: Legacy of Czechoslovak Intelligence (1948–1989)“, jehož spoluautorem je dr. @JanKoura z Ústavu světových dějin FF UK.

My newest article on Czechoslovak intelligence 🇨🇿🥳 It summarizes: - its activities and most important intelligence operations -organizational structure - links to the KGB and other Eastern European secret services #spyhistory #OpenAccess #Coldwar 👇👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The CWRN is proud to co-sponsor the book launch of Dr. Frank Gerits, titled The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966. eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-… @FrankGerits

CWRG co-organizes the lecture "From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe - and Back" by Prof. Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford), which will take place on 16 November 2022 at 10:00 at Faculty of Arts, Charles University ff.cuni.cz/2022/11/histor…

@MoroccoIntel tout est décrit dans mon article tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@JanKoura : « Ben Barka est souvent dépeint comme un militant anti-colonial et pour le tiers-monde, mais les documents révèlent une image très différente, un homme qui se jouait de plusieurs côtés, qui en savait beaucoup [..] un opportuniste qui jouait un jeu très dangereux »

🇲🇦🇫🇷| Le fils de Mehdi Ben Barka commémore les 57 ans de sa disparition en continuant d'accuser le Maroc, la France et Israel. L'historien Jan Koura 🇨🇿 révélait au @guardiannews en 2021 la facette cachée de Ben Barka, ex-espion de la StB (services secrets tchécoslovaques).

New research project #GAČR and @snsf_ch with @MikulasPesta as PI is looking for new colleagues!!! @USD_AV_CR @Akademie_ved_CR #research #ScienceJobs

🥳🥳New article on Eastern Bloc interference in the decolonisation of British Guiana has just been published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Thanks to @rawatersjr for cooperation! #spyhistory #twitterstorians tandfonline.com/eprint/VUKYSNZ…

The workshop "The Socialist Countries and the Third World: Recent Approaches and New Perspectives" is finished and it was amazing! Organized by @CWRGPrague and Constantin Katsakioris @ericburton227 @matek_g @JanKoura

Work in PRAAD archive on Czechoslovak experts in Ghana 🇨🇿🇬🇭

Thank you all for coming to our panel about Eastern European intelligence services and the Global South at @BASEES conference in Cambridge, and thanks @nat_telepneva, @JanKoura, @KseniaWes, @MikulasPesta for a fascinating discussion!

Paraphrasing Lenin: Communists will even sell us AK-47 which we will use to kill them. Happy to share my paper on how the CIA used arms dealers to purchase Polish weapons which was sent to Contras and Afghan mujahideen in the mid 80s. 50 free copies /DM: tandfonline.com/eprint/NNX8NJR…

Another story that came to light during my research on Mehdi Ben Barka and his collaboration with Czechoslovak intelligence. More details in my INS article published in 2020 1url.cz/MKTR0 and @lobs 👇