Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe
Subtitle: Small State Responses to Economic Changes, 1960s-1980s
By: edited by Adrian Brisku, Martin Gumiela and Lars Fredrik Stöcker
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2025
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781350428676; 9781350428638; 9781350428645; 9781350428652; 9781350428669
Subjects: Cold War; Economic aspects; Economic policy; Economic history; European history; The Cold War
Description: 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.
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Table of contents: title: List of contributors List of abbreviations Introduction: Economic Nationalism's Plurality in Discourse and Practice in Small (Nation-)States, Adrian Brisku, Martin Gumiela and Lars Fredrik Stöcker Part I: Small state and proto-state agency in times of economic changes 1.    Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Small (Nation-)States, Adrian Brisku 2.    Becoming "Masters of Their Own House:" Economic Nationalism and Small-state Building in Communist Federations, Lars Fredrik Stöcker Part II: Going Global 3.    "No Games. Just Business": Luxembourg's Varieties of Economic Nationalism', Thomas Kolnberger 4.    Czechoslovak Experts in Independent Lusophone Africa as a Variant of Economic Nationalism, Barbora Menclová Part III: Détente through Foreign Trade 5.    "Doing Business with the Colonels": Greece's Financial Relations with Austria and the German Democratic Republic during the Greek Military Dictatorship, 1967-1974, Ioannis Brigkos 6.    Austrian Osthandel as Economic Nationalism? Reassessing the Role of Foreign Trade in Austro-Keynesianism, Maximilian Graf 7.    National in Content and... Pragmatic in Practice: People's Poland's Economic Relations with the Western Polish Diaspora in the 1970s and 1980s, Martin Gumiela Part IV: State-Building through Globalization 8.    Economic Nationalism in Socialist Yugoslavia: The Slovenian and Croatian Responses to Globalizing Market Forces in the 1970s, Benedetto Zaccaria 9.    Elastic Estonia: Late 1980s Economic Debate in a Small Nation, from Self-Management to Independence, Kevin Axe Conclusion: "Icebreakers" in the Economic Entanglements in Cold War Europe, Adrian Brisku, Martin Gumiela and Lars Fredrik Stöcker Bibliography Index