The Balkans in the Cold War

By Dina Nayeri and Svetozar Rajak

Book Overview

Part I: The Balkans and the Creation of the Cold War Order. - 1. Greece and the Birth of Containment: An American Perspective by John O. Iatrides. - 2. Stalin, the Split with Yugoslavia, and Soviet-East European Efforts to Reassert Control, 1948-1953 by Mark Kramer. - 3. From Regional Role to Global Undertakings: Yugoslavia in the Early Cold War by Svetozar Rajak. - Part II: Military Alliances and the Balkans. - 4. The Puzzle of the Heretical: Yugoslavia in NATO Political Analysis, 1951-72 by Evanthis Hatzivassiliou. - 5. Between Global and Regional Cold Wars: Turkey's Search to Harmonize its Security Engagements in the 1950s by Ayşeg?l Sever. - 6. The Warsaw Pact in the Balkans: The Bulgarian perspective by Jordan Baev. - Part III: Uneasy Relations with the Superpowers. - The Balkan Challenge to the Warsaw Pact, 1960-64 by Laurien Crump. - 8. 'We Did Not Quarrel, We Did Not Curse': The Price of Yugoslav Independence after the Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia by Ivo Banac. - 9. The US, the Balkans and D?tente, 1963-73 by Effie Pedaliu. - Part IV: Balkan Dilemmas in 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 by Eirini Karamouzi. - 11. Under the Shadow of the Soviet Union: the EEC, Yugoslavia and the Cold War in the long 1970s by Benedetto Zaccaria. - 12. Balkan Dilemmas in the 1970s and 1980s: A Point of No Return? - Konstantina E. Botsiou. - Part V: Identity, Culture, Ideology. - 13. Yugoslavia: The 1950 Cultural and Ideological Revolution by Miroslav Perisic. - 14. The Fusion of Regional and Cold War Problems: The Macedonian Triangle between Greece, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia, 1963-80 by Spyridon Sfetas. - 15. Cutting through the Cold War: The EEC and Turkey's Great Westernization Debate by Mehmet D?şemeci. - Conclusion - The Balkans: a Cold War mystery by Arne Westad

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349683809
• ISBN13: 9781349683802
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"