Détente and Beyond (Softcover)

Name: Détente and Beyond
Author: Mauro Elli

Anglo-Romanian Relations in the Aviation Industry (1966-1993)

von Mauro Elli Verlag: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Erschienen 26.03.2018 - Kartoniert, 274 Seiten, 210mm x 148mm x 15mm, Sprache(n): eng

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By the mid-1960s, the whole European aviation industry had begun looking at two main solutions in order to survive competition from the USA: European cooperation, and exports to markets still closed to the Americans. Against this background, Anglo-Romanian dealings in the aviation industry over a period of almost thirty years are a case of converging politico-military interests with major interpretative potential. This holds true for the history of East-West relations and infra-Western commercial competition, but also for the transformation of domestic decision-making patterns and the change in economic priorities. While Britain became Romania’s first commercial partner in order to offer a new outlet to the aviation industry, Bucharest was looking at the U.K. to pursue a strategy of industrial modernisation and political visibility. The story of their intersection sheds light on the lower-level reality of Détente in Europe. The degree of collaboration across the Iron Curtain was not just the product of a generally improved diplomatic atmosphere, but – at least in the present case – the result of a peculiar mixture of political ambition, economic viability, and technological expertise. Indeed, the change of economic paradigm in the UK (from Neo-Keynesianism to monetarist Neo-Liberalism), along with President Ceauşescu’s fixation with foreign debt, played a crucial role in the vicissitudes of Anglo-Romanian relations in the aviation industry in the period between the demise of Détente and the end of the Cold War. This points to a reasonably articulated model, which is hinged on the category of ‘transfer’, rather than on the category of ‘cooperation’.

Mauro Elli, Ph.D. is currently Adjunct Professor in Contemporary History at the State University of Milan. He has published several contributions on the reciprocal feedback between foreign policy and technology during the Cold War, with a focus on nuclear power developments.

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