A History Of Cold War Industrialisation: Finnish Shipbuilding Between East And West (Perspectives In Economic And Social History)

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This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world-order which politicized technology and shaped industrial development. It provides a detailed archival-based history of the Finnish shipbuilding industry (1952-1996), which flourished 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 fluctuation within a techno-economic system. In so doing, it makes empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions to the history of industrial change. A History of Cold War Industrialization will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in economic history, maritime history, Cold War history and international political economy.