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oapen-20.500.12657-639942023-07-20T02:48:13Z Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe Crump, Laurien Erlandsson, Susanna Cold War;Cold War research;East Germany;Economic issues;NATO;Nicolae Ceaușescu;Non-aligned Movement;Nuclear Proliferation;Nuclear Threat;Occupied Germany;Securitate;Twentieth-century smaller European powers;Warsaw Pact bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations::JPSD Diplomacy bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West, neutral and non-aligned – and argues that their position vis-à-vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers, the volume covers a wide array of themes, ranging from cultural to economic issues, energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War, this book will be instrumental for students of history, international relations and political science. 2023-07-19T07:08:40Z 2023-07-19T07:08:40Z 2020 book 9780429425592 9781138388376 9781032083780 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63994 eng Routledge Studies in Modern European History application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780429758478.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429425592 10.4324/9780429425592 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 626e72f0-c3c3-4cc5-8541-f623da772c05 9780429425592 9781138388376 9781032083780 Routledge 270 Universiteit Utrecht Utrecht University open access
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The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West, neutral and non-aligned – and argues that their position vis-à-vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers, the volume covers a wide array of themes, ranging from cultural to economic issues, energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War, this book will be instrumental for students of history, international relations and political science.
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