Daniel Stinsky - International Cooperation in Cold War Europe: The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, 1947-64

International Cooperation in Cold War Europe

Histories of Internationalism

Series Editor

Jessica Reinisch, reader in modern history at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and David Brydan, lecturer of twentieth-century history and international relations at Kings College London, UK.

Editorial Board

Neil Davie, University of Lyon II, France

Johannes Dillinger, University of Mainz, Germany

Wilbur Miller, State University of New York, USA

Marianna Muravyeva, University of Helsinki, Finland

David Nash, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Judith Rowbotham, Nottingham Trent University, UK

This new book series features cutting-edge research on the history of international cooperation and internationalizing ambitions in the modern world. Providing an intellectual home for research into the many guises of internationalism, its titles draw on methods and insights from political, social, cultural, economic, and intellectual history. It showcases a rapidly expanding scholarship which has begun to transform our understanding of internationalism.

Cutting across established academic fields such as European, World, International, and Global History, the series critically examines historical perceptions of geography, regions, centers, peripheries, borderlands, and connections across space in the history of internationalism. It will include both monographs and edited volumes that shed new light on local and global contexts for international projects; the impact of class, race, and gender on international aspirations; the roles played by a variety of international organizations and institutions; and the hopes, fears, tensions, and conflicts underlying them.

The series will be published in association with Birkbecks Centre for the Study of Internationalism.

Published

Organizing the 20th-Century World, edited by edited Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Haakon Andreas Ikonomou, Torsten Kahlert

Forthcoming

Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World? , Samantha K. Knapton and Katherine Rossy

International Cooperation in Cold War Europe

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, 194764

Daniel Stinsky

Contents

This book is based on my PhD thesis that I defended in Maastricht in May 2019. It is a product of the inspiring, international, and interdisciplinary environment of Maastricht Universitys Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS). First and foremost, I want to thank my supervisors Kiran Klaus Patel, Nico Randeraad, and Vincent Lagendijk. Their support, their patience, and their guidance during this process have been invaluable. I also want to thank the members of the history department and the PCE research group for widening my perspective to interdisciplinary problems. The FASoS Graduate School, under the direction of Alexandra Supper, has been a great resource. To my friends, office mates, and paranimfen Hans Schouwenburg and Thomas Mougey, I am grateful for long discussions on the nature of history as well as wonderful hiking trips to the Ardennes. I also want to thank all students in the BA programs European Studies and Arts and Culture who participated in my classes.

Beyond Maastricht, I want to thank the members of the Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis (OPG), and in particular Margit van der Steen and Henk te Velde, for many inspiring workshops and conferences in the Netherlands and Belgium. Scott H. Krause (Chapel Hill) has given great input during many conversations and was both a coauthor for a piece on Myrdal and Willy Brandt and a temporary roommate in Berlin-Neuklln. I want to thank Anna Nedlin-Lehrer, Ella Mller and Ulrich Herbert (Freiburg im Breisgau), and Steffi de Jong and Habbo Knoch (Cologne) for inviting me to speak at colloquia. The following people have given highly valuable feedback on draft papers and conference presentations: Sari Autio-Sarasmo (Helsinki), Matthew Broad (Turku), Chlo Delcour (Ghent), Suvi Kansikas (Helsinki), Sandrine Kott (Geneva), Ferdinand Kramer (Munich), Mathieu Leimgruber (Zurich), Brigitte Leucht (Portsmouth), Wim van Meurs (Nijmegen), Sigfrido Ramrez Prez (Frankfurt am Main), Matthias Schmelzer (Berlin), and Thomas Zimmer (Freiburg im Breisgau). To them and to other participants at conferences in Florence, Helsinki, Leiden, Munich, Portsmouth, Zurich, and elsewhere where I presented parts of my ongoing research, I am grateful for many valuable insights and critical comments.

I also want to thank the librarians at Maastricht University library and at the European Commission library in Brussels, and the archivists at the UN offices in Geneva, at Arbetarrrselsens arkiv och bibliotek and the Royal Library in Stockholm, at the UK National Archives in Kew, at the US National Archives in College Park, MD, at the UNHQ and Rockefeller Foundation Archives in New York, at the Bundesarchiv and the Politisches Archiv des Auswrtigen Amtes in Berlin, and at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence for their support.

A special dank je wel, dankeschn, tack s mycket, and thank you go to my friends and family. A PhD in the humanities might often seem like a lonely enterprise, but there are many people who have accompanied me during this process and helped me in countless ways.