The ritual of portraying the Cold War as an epic global struggle—expressed through U.S.-Soviet bipolarity—inevitably downplays its cooperative and multilateral features. Northern Europe in the Cold War, 1965–1990 seeks to counterbalance this “bias in international historiography” (p. 12) and to offer a more inclusive interpretation. Edited by Poul Villaume, Ann-Marie Ekengren, and Rasmus Mariager, it centers on East-West interactions and collaboration—from the 1960s until the 1980s—in general, and on the role of (Northern) European multipolarity during this period in particular. Moreover, it emphasizes smaller national and transnational actors at the expense of great powers to give “neglected” Cold War themes and topics the attention they deserve. As Villaume points out in his introduction, this perspective is consistent with what scholars at the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki—the publisher of the volume—have termed a new Cold War research paradigm based on interpretive frameworks of East-West transfers and interactive communications....

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