International Cooperation in Cold War Europe

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, 1947-64

Daniel Stinsky (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-16903-6 (ISBN)

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Formed in 1947, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) was the first postwar international organization dedicated to economic cooperation in Europe. Linking the universalism of the UN to European regionalism, both Cold War superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, were founding members of the UNECE. Building on the League of Nations’ difficult heritage, and in an increasingly challenging political environment, the UNECE’s mission was to facilitate European cooperation transcending the boundaries set by the Cold War . With a number of competitor organizations set against it, the UNECE managed to carve out a niche for itself, setting norms and standards that still have an impact on the everyday lives of millions in Europe and beyond today. Working against an overwhelming geopolitical trend, UNECE succeeded in bridging the Cold War divide on several occasions, and maintained a broad system of contacts across the Iron Curtain.
This book provides a unique study of this important but hitherto under-researched international organization. Incorporating research on the Cold War, the history of internationalism and European integration, Stinsky weaves these different threads of historical enquiry into a single analytical narrative.

Daniel Stinsky received his PhD in European and Global History from Maastricht University, Netherlands, where he was the course coordinator for European Studies and Arts & Culture. He currently holds a position in the Federal German Foreign Office.

Introduction
Part I Intellectual Origins and Constitutive Politics of UNECE and the Postwar European Order 1940-47
Chapter 1 Planning for Peace
Chapter 2 United Nations, in War and in Peace
Part II Reconstruction and the Breakdown of East-West Relations, 1947-52
Chapter 3 The Construction of Western Europe
Chapter 4 East-West Trade in the Early Cold War
Part III Economic Cooperation in Cold War Europe, 1949-60
Chapter 5 UNECE as a Technical Agency
Chapter 6 UNECE and East-West Trade After Stalin
Chapter 7 UNECE and (Western) European Integration
Epilogue: East-West Schism, North-South Divide

Erscheinungsdatum	07.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Histories of Internationalism
Zusatzinfo	15 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	676 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-16903-X / 135016903X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-16903-6 / 9781350169036
Zustand	Neuware