Title: Germán Arciniegas en la posguerra: panamericanismo y guerra fría cultural, 1945-1958
Abstract: This thesis focuses on the role of the Colombian writer, politician, and diplomat, Germán Arciniegas (1900-1999), during the process of intellectual construction of the Cold War in Latin America.Based on an in-depth analysis of magazines, newspapers and correspondence, this study explores the collective dimension of this process, thus advancing in the study of political languages, sociabilities, and intervention modes that Arciniegas and his colleagues and interlocutors mobilized during the study period, that is between 1945 and 1958.Engaged with the causes of anti-fascism and Pan-Americanism, during the post-war period, Germán Arciniegas acted as an animator of debates and an articulator of political-intellectual undertakings on a transnational scale.In this endeavor, Arciniegas mobilized intellectual resources and institutional spaces linked to anti-fascism and Pan-Americanism; elements that allowed the elaboration of an original way of adapting Latin American agendas and languages in the wake of the Cultural Cold War articulated by the Congress for Cultural Freedom.