Laurien Crump - Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe

The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers EastWest, neutral and non-aligned and argues that their position vis--vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers, the volume covers a wide array of themes, ranging from cultural to economic issues, energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War, this book will be instrumental for students of history, international relations and political science.

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.

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Edited by Laurien Crump and Susanna Erlandsson

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Names: Crump, Laurien, editor. | Erlandsson, Susanna, editor.

Title: Margins for manoeuvre in Cold War Europe : the influence of smaller powers / Laurien Crump and Susanna Erlandsson.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge studies in modern European history | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019039087 (print) | LCCN 2019039088 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138388376 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429425592 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: International relationsHistory20th century. | Cold War. | Middle powers. | States, Small. | World politics19451989. | EuropeForeign relations1945

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Laurien Crump and Susanna Erlandsson

PART I
Manoeuvring through multilateralism

Laurien Crump and Angela Romano

Trineke Palm

Aryo Makko

Stefanie F. M. Massink

PART II
The margins of superpower rule

Suvi Kansikas, Mila Oiva and Saara Matala

Elitza Stanoeva

Frank Gerits

Marloes Beers

PART III
Identity as an instrument

Johanna RAINIO-NIEMI

Corina Mavrodin

Cristina Blanco So-Lpez

Eirini Karamouzi

Laurien Crump and Susanna Erlandsson

This book grew out of conversations between the two of us, while we were still working on our doctoral theses many years ago. It struck us both how smaller powers in post-World War II Europe seemed to have much more room for manoeuvre than conventionally assumed. Our embryonic idea on compiling a volume revolving around the concept margins for manoeuvre became much more concrete when Utrecht Universitys History and Art History Department gave us a grant to organise a two-day international workshop around this theme. We decided to invite the new generation of Cold War scholars, all of whom were conducting multi-archival research on a wide range of smaller European powers during the Cold War. To our delight, everyone accepted the invitation and better still almost everyone who participated in the workshop in December 2017 contributed to this volume. The results exceeded our expectations, and we are most grateful to the authors for responding so creatively and intelligently to our call and to Utrecht University for facilitating this in the first place.

Moreover, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to Robert Langham, the senior editor at Routledge, who believed in this project from the start and has been generous with his support, as well as very flexible. Managing this process would not have been possible without our student assistant, James Hall, whom Utrecht Universitys History and Art History Department appointed on our behalf. James has been tireless in proofreading chapters, checking references and chasing authors. Moreover, he often spotted inconsistencies that we had overlooked, and we were impressed with his insightful suggestions. James has certainly helped to raise the volume to a still higher level. It has been a great joy to work with such an inspiring team of authors, and we are thrilled that our embryonic idea resulted in this volume.