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Preview for the Roundtable event on Thursday

This Thursday (12/11) from 4 pm till 5.30 pm, we will host the Roundtable on Curious Connections: Small States, Pericentrism and the Global Cold War.  The event is free to attend without any prior registration. Please use the following link to access the event: https://meet.starleaf.com/4340495452 The event will be presented by Dr. Laurien Crump, Dr. Lorena…

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Roundtable: Curious Connections: Small States, Pericentrism and the Global Cold War

On November 12, three members of the Cold War Research Network, Laurien Crump, Lorena De Vita, and Paschalis Pechlivanis will host a joint digital round table. Each of them will use their latest publications as a starting-point for a debate about questions pertaining to “Small States, Pericentrism and the Global Cold War”. Laurien Crump will…

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A reflection upon the Lecture ‘An irrelevant relationship? The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and Yugoslavia, c.1960–91’

On the 22nd of October, Matthew Broad held a discussion about the unique position which Yugoslavia occupied during the Cold War.  This was the first of a series of digital lectures by the Cold War Research Network, with new events to follow in the upcoming weeks. The event was a great succes and we were very…

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Publication: NATO’s inherent dilemma: strategic imperatives vs. value foundations

Cold War Research Network coordinator Ruud van Dijk published together with Stanley R. Sloan the article “NATO’s inherent dilemma: strategic imperatives vs. value foundations” for the Journal of Strategic Studies. In their article, van Dijk and Sloan argue that it has been clear for several years now that what NATO purports to stand for and…

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Publication: Israelpolitik – German–Israeli relations, 1949–69

The rapprochement between Germany and Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust is one of the most striking political developments of the twentieth century. German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently referred to it as a ‘miracle’. But how did this ‘miracle’ come about? In this book, Lorena De Vita traces the contradictions and dilemmas that shaped…

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Publication: An Uneasy Triangle: Nicolae Ceausescu, the Greek Colonels and the Greek Communists (1967-1974)

In his new article “An Uneasy Triangle: Nicolae Ceaușescu, the Greek Colonels and the Greek Communists (1967-1974)” for The International History Review Paschalis Pechlivanis examines the rapprochement between Ceaușescu’s Romania and the dictatorship of the Greek Colonels (1967-1974). Specifically, the paradoxically positive attitude of Ceaușescu towards the Greek Junta is approached not only on a…

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Publication: Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe – The Influence of Smaller Powers

Laurien Crump, coordinator of the Cold War Research Network, and Susanna Erlandsson challenge the view that 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 in their recent publication “Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe…

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