 | A History of Cold War Industrialisation: Finnish Shipbuilding between East and West Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; International Political Economy; Economics; Industry & Industrial Studies; History; European Politics; Industrial Economics; European History; The Cold War; History of Science & Technology; Economic History; Scandinavian Politics; Manufacturing Industries; 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. A History of Cold War Industrialisation will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in economic history, maritime history, Cold War history, and international political economy. Saara Matala is Post-doctoral Fellow in the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. |
