1st Edition
Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe The Influence of Smaller Powers
Introduction: Smaller Powers in Cold War Europe
Laurien Crump and Susanna Erlandsson
Part I: Manoeuvring through Multilateralism
1. Challenging the Superpower Straightjacket (1965–1975): Multilateralism as an Instrument of Smaller Powers
Laurien Crump and Angela Romano
2. Multilateralism as Small Power Strategy (1950–1952): The Netherlands, the Benelux and the European Defence Community
Trineke Palm
3. Small States, Alliances and the Margins for Manoeuvre in the Cold War: Sweden, Norway and the CSCE
Aryo Makko
4. A Critical Ally (1949–1977): The Dutch Social Democrats, Spain and NATO
Stefanie F. M. Massink
Part II: The Margins of Superpower Rule
5. Manoeuvring into the Soviet Market: Polish and Finnish Eastern Trade Practices during the Cold War
Suvi Kansikas, Mila Oiva and Saara Matala
6. The Imperative of Opening to the West and the Impact of the 1968 Crisis: Bulgaria’s Cooperation with Denmark and West Germany in the 1960s
Elitza Stanoeva
7. Americanising the Belgian Civilising Mission (1941–1961): The Belgian Information Center in New York and the Campaign to cast the Belgian Civilising Mission as part of the Point IV Programme
Frank Gerits
8. A Gas Giant in a Small State’s Clothes (1981–1982): A Political Economy Analysis of the Dutch Margins for Manoeuvre During the Urengoy Pipeline Crisis
Marloes Beers
Part III: Identity as an Instrument
9. Neutrality as an Instrument of Small State Manoeuvring and the Globalisation of Neutrality in the Cold War
Johanna Raino-Niemi
10. Denuclearisation and Regional Cooperation: Romania’s Tactical Approaches to Escaping Bloc Rigidities
Corina Mavrodin
11. Transitional Margins to Re-Join the West: Spain’s Dual Strategy of Democratisation and Europeanisation
Cristina Blanco Sío-López
12. ‘At last, our voice is heard in the world’: Greece and the Six Nation Initiative during the Euromissile Crisis
Erini Karamouzi
Conclusion: Shedding a New Light on Cold War Europe
Laurien Crump and Susanna Erlandsson
Biography
Laurien Crump is Associate Professor in Contemporary European History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She has published widely on multilateral relations in the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain, based on multi-archival research in eight European countries.
Susanna Erlandsson is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has published on Swedish and Dutch security policies in the 1940s, on personal trust in diplomatic relations and on the role of gender in diplomatic history.
