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"Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide. Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were institutions, organizations, and individuals who brought people from the East and the West together, joined by shared professions, ideas, and sometimes even through marriage. The volume aims at proving that the post-WWII histories of Western and Eastern Europe were entangled by looking at cases involving France, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and others"--Provided by publisher

Introduction 1. - SECTION I: CONTEXT: THE CASE FOR CONVERGENCE 7. - Chapter I: Europe's Partial and Selective Emulation of the US-led Revolution in Military Affairs 9. - Chapter II: Convergence and Divergence in the Institutional Forums of Defence Policy: . - Functional Complementarity; Spatial and Temporal Differentiation 60. - SECTION II: THEORISING AND TESTING DEFENCE POLICY CONVERGENCE 93. - Chapter III: Competing Theoretical Frameworks: Realist and Cultural Approaches 95. - SECTION III: TESTING CULTURAL AND REALIST APPROACHED: . - DEFENCE POLICIES BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL STRUCTURE AND EXECUTIVE AUTONOMY 133 . - Chapter IV: France: Domestic Incentives and Timely Adaptation to Systemic Imperatives 135. - Chapter V: Germany: Domestic Constraint and the Temporal Management of Reform 163. - Chapter VI: The United Kingdom High Executive Autonomy and Timely Adaptation to Systemic Imperatives 197. - Chapter VII: Conclusions: The Empirical and Theoretical Implications 231

Introduction : the cold war from a new perspective / Sari Autio-Sarasmo and Katalin Miklóssy -- The Soviet Union's acquisition of western technology after Stalin : some thoughts on people and connections / Philip Hanson -- Economic interest in Soviet post-war policy on Finland / Tatiana Androsova -- CoCom and neutrality : western export control policies, Finland and the Cold War, 1949-1958 / Niklas Jensen-Eriksen -- Knowledge through the Iron Curtain : Soviet scientific-technical cooperation with Finland and West Germany / Sari Autio-Sarasmo -- Learning from the French : the modernisation of Soviet winemaking, 1956-1961 / Jeremy Smith -- Soft contacts through the Iron Curtain / Riikka Nisonen-Trinka -- Internal transfer of cybernetics and informality in the Soviet Union : the case of Lithuania / Egle Rindzeviciute -- New advantages of old kinship ties : Finnish-Hungarian interactions in the 1970s / Katalin Miklóssy -- Soviet women, cultural exchange and the Women's International Democratic Federation / Melanie Ilic -- Overcoming Cold War boundaries at the world youth festivals / Pia Koivunen -- Room to manoeuvre? : national interests and coalition-building in the CMEA, 1969-1974 / Suvi Kansikas