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.
Day I – 3.12.2020
09:15-09:30
Opening remarks
Eirini Karamouzi (University of Sheffield) and Rinna Kullaa (Tampere University)
09:30-10:45
Panel I
Intricacies of creating alternative international alliances (Part A)
Lubna Qureshi: Prime Minister Olof Palme, Sweden, and the Vietnam War: A Diplomatic History (Independent Scholar)
Sandra Bott: Capitalism, Neutrality and the Cold War: Switzerland’s diplomatic and economic relations with Singapore, 1965-1990 (University of Lausanne)
Hillary Briffa: Malta's Grand Design: Strategic Hedging in the Cold War (King's College London)
Commentator and Chair: Peter Stadius (University of Helsinki)
– Coffee break –
11:00-12:30
Panel I
Intricacies of creating alternative international alliances (Part B)
Agustin Cosovschi: Building Non-Alignment from Santiago to Mexico: The Yugoslav Enterprise in Latin America During the Early Cold War (École Européenne de Sciences Politiques et Sociales, Université Catholique de Lille)
Idrit Idrizi: Aspiring after global reputation through militancy. Albania, the alliance with China and the anti-Soviet struggle in the early 1960s (University of Vienna)
Christian Methfessel: Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the United Nations: “Strong” and “Weak” States Arguing over the International Order after World War II, 1948-1952 (University of Erfurt)
Commentator and Chair: Rinna Kullaa (Tampere University)
– Coffee break –
13:00-14:00
Conference Roundtable
Empirical Cases, Directions and Choices of Foreign Policy in the Cold War
Chair and Discussant: Roham Alvandi (LSE)
Participants: Arne Westad (Yale); Federico Romero (EUI); Rinna Kullaa (Tampere University); Wolfgang Müller (University of Vienna); Lorenz Luthi (McGill University)
Day II – 4.12.2020
09:00-10:00
Panel III
Expert communities shaping alternative history of the Cold War
Jan Zofka: Actors of Globalization? GDR coal experts in international cooperation during the Early Cold War (Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa)
Peter Svik: Non-homogeneity and its limits: four case studies from the Soviet bloc aviation sector (University of Vienna)
Commentator and Chair: Eirini Karamouzi (University of Sheffield) (discussion altogether 30 min)
-Coffee break-
10:15-11:15
Panel IV
National course changing history
Patrick G. Vaughan: The socio-economic situation in Poland 1970-1980 and competing visions of the rode to independence (Jagiellonian University Krakow)
Nedžad Kuč: A “long term investment”: Yugoslavia’s scholarships for Global South students in the 1950s (University of Vienna)
Commentator / Chair: Christoph Augustynowicz (University of Vienna)
11:30-12:45
Panel V
Non-state actors determining the international course
Dieyun Song: Countering Cold War Dominion Through Philanthropic Alliance: A Colombian Case Study (University of Miami)
Lucile Dreidemy: Reframing Hegemony: The NGOization of development and foreign policy in the Cold War (University of Vienna / University of Toulouse)
Riccardo Mario Cucciolla: Rashidov's Cold War. The foreign agenda of a Soviet republic (Luiss University) (15 min)
Commentator and Chair: Artemy Kalinovksy (Temple University) (discussion altogether 30 min)
13:00-14:00
Roundtable
On the Concept of Feminist Foreign Policy as a Global Strategy (Sweden as an example)
Participants: Katja Ahlfors (Finnish Foreign Ministry); Peter Stadius (University of Helsinki)
14:00-14:15
Concluding remarks
Rinna Kullaa (Tampere University)