European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West

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 relati...

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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, it assesses the complex influence of European and global processes of transformation on the socialist elites’ reading of the international political and economic environment and their consequent decision-making. The volume also explores the debate in each country among and within the elites involved in policymaking as they elaborated this strategic view and coped with shortcomings and unexpected turns. A comparative analysis of national cases shows a shared logic and common patterns, together with national variations and a plurality of views on the desirability of exchanges with their capitalist neighbours and on the ways to promote them. The multinational coverage of seven countries makes this volume a starting point for anyone interested in each socialist state’s foreign policy, intra-bloc relations, economic strategy, transformation and collapse, relations with the European Community and access to the EU. This book will be of much interest to students and researchers of Cold War Studies, European history, and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.routledge.com/European-Socialist-Regimes-Fateful-Engagement-with-the-West-National-Strategies/Romano-Romero/p/book/9780367356170, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-334112025-03-12T22:37:26Z European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West Romano, Angela Romero, Federico Eastern European Politics The Cold War International Relations COMECON Cold War CSCE EEC European Community European integration Socialist states Soviet Union the West thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history 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, it assesses the complex influence of European and global processes of transformation on the socialist elites’ reading of the international political and economic environment and their consequent decision-making. The volume also explores the debate in each country among and within the elites involved in policymaking as they elaborated this strategic view and coped with shortcomings and unexpected turns. A comparative analysis of national cases shows a shared logic and common patterns, together with national variations and a plurality of views on the desirability of exchanges with their capitalist neighbours and on the ways to promote them. The multinational coverage of seven countries makes this volume a starting point for anyone interested in each socialist state’s foreign policy, intra-bloc relations, economic strategy, transformation and collapse, relations with the European Community and access to the EU. This book will be of much interest to students and researchers of Cold War Studies, European history, and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.routledge.com/European-Socialist-Regimes-Fateful-Engagement-with-the-West-National-Strategies/Romano-Romero/p/book/9780367356170, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 2021-02-10T14:07:45Z 2021-02-10T14:07:45Z 2020-09-21T13:40:05Z 2021 book ONIX_20200921_9781000210330_61 ONIX_20200921_9781000210330_61 OCN: 1229657519 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41703 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33411 eng Cold War History open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41703/1/9781000210330.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41703/1/9781000210330.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41703/1/9781000210330.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41703/1/9781000210330.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429340703 10.4324/9780429340703 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Routledge 290 open access
spellingShingle Eastern European Politics
The Cold War
International Relations
COMECON
Cold War
CSCE
EEC
European Community
European integration
Socialist states
Soviet Union
the West
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
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European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West
title European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West
title_full European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West
title_fullStr European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West
title_full_unstemmed European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West
title_short European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West
title_sort european socialist regimes fateful engagement with the west
topic Eastern European Politics
The Cold War
International Relations
COMECON
Cold War
CSCE
EEC
European Community
European integration
Socialist states
Soviet Union
the West
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
topic_facet Eastern European Politics
The Cold War
International Relations
COMECON
Cold War
CSCE
EEC
European Community
European integration
Socialist states
Soviet Union
the West
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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