CFP: Economic Encounters in the Age of Ideology: Exploring the Business Dimension of Political Confrontation (China, Russia, Europe, 1945-1991)
The new century has revealed that the barriers between Socialist economies and the Free World were more porous than expected (Dobson; Cain; Segreto) and that enterprises and businessmen played an important part in East-West interaction (Autio-Sarasmo and Miklossy; Eloranta and Ojala; Jensen-Eriksen). Nevertheless, a serious analysis of trade is clearly lacking from Cold War historiography.