In 1963 Columbia Records, Roulette Records, and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) joined forces to produce and release a jazz record titled A Jazz Salute to Freedom, and in doing so they allied with CORE and their fight for racial equality. The sales revenue generated helped CORE maintain a positive cash flow and exposed legions of jazz fans in the United States and abroad to CORE’s concerns with racial discrimination. The record’s marketing collateral engaged fans in dialogue about the fight for racial equality. By offering CORE access to resources and professional expertise, Roulette and Columbia became collaborators in civil rights activism. The relationship between CORE, Roulette, and Columbia Records represents a unique historical example of corporate allyship within the struggle for civil rights, an example that adds nuance and complexity to our historical understanding of the movement’s relationship with private enterprise.

The setting up of “second registries” by European governments in the 1980s was a formative moment in contemporary maritime history. Developed in an effort to counteract the growing use of offshore flags of convenience, these registries provided European shipping companies with spaces of exception from normal regulation, lifting national manning requirements and allowing for foreign labor to be hired on local wages. This article investigates the emergence of the Nordic variants, called “international ship registries” (ISRs). Employing a global perspective which focuses on the interplay between business actors, narratives, and national politics, it argues that the influence of offshore actors in shaping the Nordic developments was more pronounced than previous research suggests. The ISR policy was originally proposed to Norwegian policymakers by an offshore shipowner living in Bermuda. From there, it transferred to Denmark and Sweden, shaping their policy debates in the 1980s and 1990s.

This article examines the postwar Franco-Italian struggle over Sudameris (Banque Française et Italienne pour l’Amérique du Sud), a multinational bank operating across South America. After 1945, Paribas sought to transform Sudameris into a French institution, backed by government pressure and asset sequestration. Italy’s Banca Commerciale Italiana (BCI) resisted, regaining majority control in 1948 through strategic share acquisitions. The ensuing conflict (1948–1955) centered on executive power. Paribas relied on French corporate law to maintain managerial dominance, while the BCI finally succeeded in appointing an Italian managing director in 1955. Under Italian leadership, Sudameris shifted from transactional to relationship banking in South America, reversing stagnation and achieving renewed growth by 1960. Sudameris’s early postwar history reveals how postwar European economic rivalries extended into South America and how multinational banks adapted to nationalist environments amid the contradictory forces of regional integration and global competition.