Tycho van der Hoog
@tavdhoog
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Assistant Professor of International Security Studies at the Netherlands Defence Academy. Author of 'Comrades Beyond the Cold War', forthcoming with Hurst/OUP.
Joined March 2021
African Arguments has kindly published a blog that explains the core premise of my book, Comrades Beyond the Cold War: .
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Noord-Korea is niet alleen actief in Oekraïne, maar ook in het Afrikaanse continent. Met @bramvermeul sprak ik in de podcast 'Achter de Frontlinie' over de warme banden tussen het Kim-regime en Afrikaanse landen.
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Happy to share that my PhD thesis, 'Comrades Beyond the Cold War: North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa', has now been published by @HurstPublishers! The book is available here:
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RT @HurstPublishers: OUT TODAY 📚: #ComradesBeyondtheColdWar by @tavdhoogis a pioneering account of how #African revolutionaries benefitted….
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Over the course of five years, I've catalogued the personal papers of Stephen Ellis - renowned historian of Africa and former director of the @ASCLeiden. The 295 page inventory is now available online:
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RT @JSAS_Editors: New article by @TanjaDHendriks challenges a stereotype of African officials as indifferent & corrupt, showing the ways Ma….
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My new book, 'Comrades Beyond the Cold War: North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa', will appear in January 2025! I am very grateful to @AfricaIai @HurstPublishers @OxUniPress for the opportunity to publish my PhD thesis.
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RT @mininghistory: "Russia in Africa" is one of those topics where you can make up anything and someone will publish it.
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Reports of Russian influence in Africa are often based on fear, not fact. @mininghistory and I provide a counterargument to the prevailing narrative of Russian-African relations that obscures African agency. Now available at @WPReview:.
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Erg blij met dit interview in @WeekbladMare over mijn onderzoek naar de invloed van Noord-Korea in zuidelijk Afrika:
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I look forward to defending my PhD thesis at Leiden University next week. The university has been so kind to publish a short interview with me about my research:
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The International Institute of Asian Studies has very kindly allowed me to write a bit about Pyongyang's importance as an Afro-Asian meeting space during the Cold War: .
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Samen met @koryoinleiden commentaar gegeven bij BNR over de spanningen op het Koreaanse schiereiland: .
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After several happy years with @ASCLeiden I transitioned to the Netherlands Defence Academy as an Assistant Professor of International Security Studies. Teaching starts next week!
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RT @CasparSwinkels: In our monthly book club, the 'Ponzi Scheme', we read fiction written by African (and -diaspora) authors. This third ye….
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The 2023 book is dedicated to "Mzee Laurent Désiré Kabila", the former president of DR Congo. Kabila was immortalized in a statue in Kinshasa, made by. a North Korean art studio.
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During my archival research on North Korean-African relations I encountered lots of similar publications from the Cold War era. Clearly this kind of interest survived the test of time.
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Fascinating to see that even today African intellectuals remain interested in North Korean ideology. This book, written by a Congolese professor, was published in July 2023.
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