A History of Cold War Industrialization: Finnish Shipbuilding Between East and West

By Saara Matala

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032033347
• ISBN13: 9781032033341
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"