Foreign Policy in Alliance or in Non-Alignment?

History of the Post-War World Order Through the Eyes of European Non-Hegemonic Powers (NONHEGFP)

News

The Concept of Feminist Foreign Policy as a Global Strategy (Sweden as an example) : LSE 4.12.2020 TRANSCRIPT

3rd February 2021

Chair: Dr. Luc Brunet (LSE IDEAS) Panelists: Katja Ahlfors (Finnish Foreign Ministry) is the Director of the Unit for Development Policy of the Foreign Ministry of Finland. She was posted in Stockholm in 2014 – 2017 and reported on the launch of the policy. Peter Stadius (University of Helsinki) is a Professor of Nordic Studies…

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Empirical Cases, Directions and Choices of the Foreign Policy in the Cold War : LSE 3.12.2020 TRANSCRIPT

15th January 2021

Panel Discussion: Empirical Cases, Directions and Choices of the Foreign Policy in the Cold War LSE IDEAS 3.12.2021 All-Star Cast Cold War Historians Discuss: Arne Westad (Yale); Federico Romero (EUI); Rinna Kullaa (TUNI); Lorenz Lüthi (McGill); Wolfgang Mueller (UNIVIE).

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The Soviet Union’s global ports and flexible web-like naval strategy: Case studies of Antsiranana and Tivat

15th January 2021
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The International Journal of Maritime History 2021, Vol. 33(1) 209-231 Rinna Kullaa   Abstract: This article contributes to the history of the Soviet Union and global naval history by comparing two examples of naval ports across the European and African continents: Tivat in Yugoslavia and Antsiranana in Madagascar. Comparison of the utilization and construction of…

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Plusieurs

Alternative Visions of Europe in the 1970s

27th November 2020

4 and 5 February 2021. Hosted by the EUI; funded by the Academy of Finland; held online.

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Swanam

Switzerland vs. Sweden: Cold War Neutrality and Capitalism in Non-Aligned Asia, 1945-1991

27th November 2020

Dr. Sandra Bott´s (University of Lausanne) project Cold War Neutrality and Capitalism in Non-Aligned Asia, 1945-1991 aims to better understand how Switzerland’s political and economic history has been embedded in the histories of non-aligned and non-communist Asia in a crucial historical phase marked by the imbrication of the Cold War and decolonization processes.

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RusMIDEAST Teaching 2020

27th November 2020

https://youtu.be/OeAMchMJDfg RusMIDEAST teaching 27 November 2020 Video compilation of Russia in the Middle East -course work. Finnish Institute in the Middle East & University of Vienna & American University of Beirut. Professors: Rinna Kullaa, Talal Nizameddin.

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RusMIDEAST

RusMIDEAST

27th November 2020

Russia in the Middle East –course work. Finnish Institute in the Middle East & University of Vienna & American University of Beirut.

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Rethinking Southern Europe: Society, Networks and Politics

27th November 2020

Article published online in Contemporary European History 26 February 2021. Granadino, A., Karamouzi, E., & Kullaa, R. (2021). Rethinking Southern Europe: Society, Networks and Politics. Contemporary European History, 1-10.

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Historiallinen aikakauskirja

Colonialism and Finland – Suomi ja kolonialismi. Edited by Rinna Kullaa and Janne Lahti.

27th November 2020

In Finnish language, Historical Journal Collected Issue 4/2020
Historiallinen aikakauskirja 4/ 2020

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Conference

Influence of Choice: Alternative Histories of Non-Hegemonic Foreign Policy in the Cold War

3 and 4 December 2020. Hosted by LSE-Ideas; funded by the Academy of Finland; held online.

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About the Project

Traditionally foreign policies during the Cold War have been viewed through a lens of the three-world division: as a hierarchical relationship from Western Europe and the United States to > the Communist world led by the Soviet Union to > the most populous former colonial world.

Historians have often argued that the success of global integration during the conflict demanded American hegemony, and that disruptions were caused by incidence of absence of Western based influence and values.

However, at the end of the conflict the majority of states stood outside or in-between the three definitions carved out by Cold War historiography. Out of some 162 countries only 24 were ruled by communist parties; 35 countries were governed by the US model of liberal democracy. This left 103 countries outside or in between those definitions. For example, Finland, Sweden and Austria had established transparent and democratic institutions while promoting neutralism foreign policies. Spain and Portugal had abandoned their respective dictatorships, started their transitions to democracy as well as the dismantling of their former colonial empires. The Greeks had overthrown their governing military junta, choosing to adopt a democratic
government instead.

NONHEGFP project investigates foreign policy alternatives from the Cold War until today and raises questions such as: to what extent Cold War historiography has extended colonial histories in imitating a hegemonic point of view and how to include alternative actors in addition to states to analysis of the period.