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1st Edition

European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West National Strategies in the Long 1970s

Edited By Angela Romano, Federico Romero Copyright 2021

290 Pages

by Routledge

290 Pages

by Routledge

Description

This edited volume analyses European socialist countries’ strategy of engagement with the West and the European Economic Community in the long 1970s. The book focuses on a time when the socialist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe banked their hopes for prosperity and stability on enhanced relations with the West. Crossing the traditional differences among diverse fields of historiography,... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction

Angela Romano and Federico Romero

1. Socialism Between Détente and Globalisation

Federico Romero

2. Pan-Europe: A Continental Space for Cooperation(s)

Angela Romano

3. Attraction and Repulsion: Hungary and European Integration

Pal Germuska

4. From ‘Economic Miracle’ to the ‘Sick Man of the Socialist Camp’: Poland and the West in the 1970s

Aleksandra Komornicka

5. Drifting Westward? East Germany and Integrated Europe

Maximilian Graf

6. Czechoslovakia’s Pan-European Relations during the "Long 1970s"

Pavel Szobi

7. Balancing between Socialist Internationalism and Economic Internationalisation: Bulgaria’s Economic Contacts with the EEC

Elitza Stanoeva

8. Romania Turns West: National and International Rationales

Elena Dragomir

9. From Liberalism to Under-Development: The Yugoslav Elites Facing Western European Economic Integration in the "Long 1970s"

Benedetto Zaccaria

10. Conclusions

Angela Romano and Federico Romero

Editor(s)

Biography

Angela Romano is Lecturer of International Political Economy, University of Glasgow, UK.

Federico Romero is Professor of Post-War European Cooperation and Integration, and Dean of Research at the European University Institute, Italy.

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