The Balkans in the Cold War (Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World)

Positioned On The Fault Line Between Two Competing Cold War Ideological And Military Alliances, And Entangled In Ethnic, Cultural And Religious Diversity, The Balkan Region Offers A Particularly Interesting Case For The Study Of The Global Cold War System. This Book Explores The Origins, Unfolding And Impact Of The Cold War On The Balkans On The One Hand, And The Importance Of Regional Realities And Pressures On The Other. Fifteen Contributors From History, International Relations, And Political Science Address A Series Of Complex Issues Rarely Covered In One Volume, Namely The Balkans And The Creation Of The Cold War Order; Military Alliances And The Balkans; Uneasy Relations With The Superpowers; Balkan Dilemmas In The 1970s And 1980s And The ‘significant Other’ – The Eec; And Identity, Culture And Ideology. The Book’s Particular Contribution To The Scholarship Of The Cold War Is That It Draws On Extensive Multi-archival Research Of Both Regional And American, Ex-soviet And Western European Archives.-- Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. I The Balkans And The Creation Of The Cold War Order -- 1. Greece And The Birth Of Containment: An American Perspective / John O. Iatrides -- 2. Stalin, The Split With Yugoslavia, And Soviet -- East European Efforts To Reassert Control, 1948 -- 53 / Mark Kramer -- 3. From Regional Role To Global Undertakings: Yugoslavia In The Early Cold War / Svetozar Rajak -- Pt. Ii Military Alliances And The Balkans -- 4. The Puzzle Of The Heretical: Yugoslavia In Nato Political Analysis, 1951 -- 72 / Evanthis Hatzivassiliou -- 5. Between Global And Regional Cold Wars: Turkey's Search To Harmonize Its Security Engagements In The 1950s / Aysegul Sever -- 6. The Warsaw Pact In The Balkans: The Bulgarian Perspective / Jordan Baev -- Pt. Iii Uneasy Relations With The Superpowers -- 7. The Balkan Challenge To The Warsaw Pact, 1960 -- 64 / Laurien Crump -- 8. `we Did Not Quarrel, We Did Not Curse': The Price Of Yugoslav Independence After The Soviet Intervention In Czechoslovakia / Ivo Banac -- 9. The Us, The Balkans And Detente, 1963 -- 73 / Effie G.h. Pedaliu -- Pt. Iv Balkan Dilemmas In The 1970s And 1980s And The `significant Other': The Eec -- 10. The Only Game In Town? Eec, Southern Europe And The Greek Crisis Of The 1970s / Eirini Karamouzi -- 11. Under The Shadow Of The Soviet Union: The Eec, Yugoslavia And The Cold War In The Long 1970s / Benedetto Zaccaria -- 12. Balkan Dilemmas In The 1970s And 1980s: A Point Of No Return? / Konstantina E. Botsiou -- Pt. V Identity, Culture, Ideology -- 13. Yugoslavia: The 1950 Cultural And Ideological Revolution / Miroslav Perisic -- 14. The Fusion Of Regional And Cold War Problems: The Macedonian Triangle Between Greece, Bulgaria And Yugoslavia, 1963 -- 80 / Spyridon Sfetas -- 15. Cutting Through The Cold War: The Eec And Turkey's Great Westernization Debate / Mehmet Dosemeci -- Pt. Vi Conclusions -- 16. The Balkans: A Cold War Mystery / Odd Arne Westad. Svetozar Rajak, Konstantina E. Botsiou, Eirini Karamouzi, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Greece and the Birth of Containment: An American Perspective....Pages 3-28 Stalin, the Split with Yugoslavia, and Soviet–East European Efforts to Reassert Control, 1948–53....Pages 29-63 From Regional Role to Global Undertakings: Yugoslavia in the Early Cold War....Pages 65-86 Front Matter....Pages 87-87 The Puzzle of the Heretical: Yugoslavia in NATO Political Analysis, 1951–72....Pages 89-108 Between Global and Regional Cold Wars: Turkey’s Search to Harmonize Its Security Engagements in the 1950s....Pages 109-128 The Warsaw Pact in the Balkans: The Bulgarian Perspective....Pages 129-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 The Balkan Challenge to the Warsaw Pact, 1960–64....Pages 151-171 ‘We Did Not Quarrel, We Did Not Curse’: The Price of Yugoslav Independence After the Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia....Pages 173-195 The US, the Balkans and Détente, 1963–73....Pages 197-218 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 The Only Game in Town? EEC, Southern Europe and the Greek Crisis of the 1970s....Pages 221-238 Under the Shadow of the Soviet Union: The EEC, Yugoslavia and the Cold War in the Long 1970s....Pages 239-259 Balkan Dilemmas in the 1970s and 1980s: A Point of No Return?....Pages 261-282 Front Matter....Pages 283-283 Yugoslavia: The 1950 Cultural and Ideological Revolution....Pages 285-305 The Fusion of Regional and Cold War Problems: The Macedonian Triangle Between Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, 1963–80....Pages 307-329 Cutting Through the Cold War: The EEC and Turkey’s Great Westernization Debate....Pages 331-351 Front Matter....Pages 353-353 The Balkans: A Cold War Mystery....Pages 355-362 Back Matter....Pages 363-372