History of Cold War Industrialisation

<p>This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development. It provides a detailed archival-based history of the Finnish shipbuilding industry (1952–1996) which f lourished thanks to the special relationship between Finland and the Soviet Union. Overall it shows how a small country Finland gained power during the Cold War through international economic and technological cooperation. The work places Finland in a firmly international context and assesses the state–industry relationship from five different angles: technopolitics trade infrastructure techno-scientific cooperation industrial reorganisation and state aid. It presents a novel way to analyse industrialisation as an interaction between institutional stabilisation and f luctuation within a techno-economic system. In so doing it makes empirical theoretical and methodological contributions to the history of industrial change. <i>A History of Cold War Industrialisation </i>will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in economic history maritime history Cold War history and international political economy.</p>