Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe

Investigating the trajectories of economic nationalisms in Cold War Europe, this open access book explores the scope and limits of small (nation-)state actors pursuing and defending national economic interests in a globalizing world. In so doing, it contributes a new perspective in the economic hist...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1521602025-07-30T09:00:00Z Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe Brisku, Adrian Stöcker, Lars Fredrik Gumiela, Martin nation nationhood Soviet bloc 20th-century history long 1970s state actors political economy economic history political history 1989 Iron Curtain Western Keynesianism Eastern Marxism-Leninism oil shocks financial shock crisis decolonisation liberalization diplomacy policy-making free market protectionism East West case study global economy globalization Communism Soviet Union foreign trade economic relations competition pragmatism socialism republicanism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTW Cold wars and proxy conflicts thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTW Cold wars and proxy conflicts thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history Investigating the trajectories of economic nationalisms in Cold War Europe, this open access book explores the scope and limits of small (nation-)state actors pursuing and defending national economic interests in a globalizing world. In so doing, it contributes a new perspective in the economic history, political economy and nationalism literatures on post-war Europe. With this remit underscoring the inherent vulnerabilities of smaller national economies and their strategies of economic survival beyond the constraints of Cold War alignments, Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe reconstructs national economic discourses and policy objectives of smaller states and sub-states on both sides of the Iron Curtain from the mid-1960s through the late 1980s. Examining the impact of economic turning points such as the simultaneous crises of Western Keynesianism and Eastern Marxism-Leninism, the oil and financial shocks of the mid-1970s or the interplay of economic liberalization and decolonization on small state economic policy-making and diplomacy, eight empirical case studies are here brought together to illustrate the variety of Cold War-era economic nationalisms and their oscillation between protectionism and free market approaches. Far from being powerless and subjected to the geo-economic binaries of the early Cold War, small states in East and West were, as the contributions demonstrate, very capable of turning smallness into a strategic asset and expanding their room for manoeuvre in a quickly shifting global economy. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Austrian Science Fund. 2025-02-17T06:53:51Z 2025-02-17T06:53:51Z 2025-02-04T11:42:42Z 2025 book ONIX_20250204_9781350428652_7 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98187 9781350428652 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/152160 eng open access image/jpeg image/png Attribution 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98187/1/9781350428652.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98187/8/9781350428669.epub Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350428676 10.5040/9781350428676 f75587da-2374-4722-9d42-9fffa7fa3f92 9781350428652 Bloomsbury Academic 280 London open access
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nationhood
Soviet bloc
20th-century history
long 1970s
state actors
political economy
economic history
political history
1989
Iron Curtain
Western Keynesianism
Eastern Marxism-Leninism
oil shocks
financial shock
crisis
decolonisation
liberalization
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policy-making
free market
protectionism
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West
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globalization
Communism
Soviet Union
foreign trade
economic relations
competition
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socialism
republicanism
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thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe
title Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe
title_full Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe
title_fullStr Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe
title_full_unstemmed Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe
title_short Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe
title_sort varieties of economic nationalism in cold war europe
topic nation
nationhood
Soviet bloc
20th-century history
long 1970s
state actors
political economy
economic history
political history
1989
Iron Curtain
Western Keynesianism
Eastern Marxism-Leninism
oil shocks
financial shock
crisis
decolonisation
liberalization
diplomacy
policy-making
free market
protectionism
East
West
case study
global economy
globalization
Communism
Soviet Union
foreign trade
economic relations
competition
pragmatism
socialism
republicanism
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTW Cold wars and proxy conflicts
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTW Cold wars and proxy conflicts
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
topic_facet nation
nationhood
Soviet bloc
20th-century history
long 1970s
state actors
political economy
economic history
political history
1989
Iron Curtain
Western Keynesianism
Eastern Marxism-Leninism
oil shocks
financial shock
crisis
decolonisation
liberalization
diplomacy
policy-making
free market
protectionism
East
West
case study
global economy
globalization
Communism
Soviet Union
foreign trade
economic relations
competition
pragmatism
socialism
republicanism
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thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
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