A History of Cold War Industrialisation : Finnish Shipbuilding between East and West Hardback

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.