Buildings for Dollars and Oil: East German and Romanian Construction Companies in Cold War Iraq

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This article discusses the partial integration of companies from socialist Eastern Europe into nascent economic globalisation in late Cold War. By focusing on industrial slaughterhouse designed and built Baghdad by East German Romanian (1974–81), it shows how they operated within across political economy state socialism emerging, Western-dominated market construction services. In Baghdad, Germans Romanians struggled with working differing monetary regimes, inefficient corporate structures requirement to comply Western standards regulations. strived bypass obstacles exploit opportunities stemming their liminal unequal position Iraq. zooming architectural engineering documentation, argues that petrobarter agreements, or exchange crude oil for goods services, shaped programmes, layouts, technologies materialities buildings constructed Europeans Iraq region.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Contemporary European History

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1469-2171', '0960-7773']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960777321000333