Civil Aviation and the Globalization of the Cold War by Peter Svik (English) Pap

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This book focuses on the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization and Cold War politics. This book will be of interest to scholars of internationalhistory, the history of technology and Cold War history.

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This book focuses on the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization and Cold War politics. It explores how the advancement of Soviet civil aircraft engineering during the 1950s technically triggered the globalization of the Cold War. The study also shows how the processes of technological standardization facilitated transfers of technology and knowledge across the Iron Curtain and how East-West as well as East-South connections evolved. It uncovers the motives and reasons for this transfer of knowledge and expertise, and aims to identify the specific roles played by states, international organizations and interpersonal networks. By taking a global approach to this history, the book advances ongoing debates in the field. It reassesses Europe's role in the Cold War, pointing out the substantial differences in how Western Europe and the United States viewed the Communist world. This book will be of interest to scholars of internationalhistory, the history of technology and Cold War history.

Author Biography

Peter Svik is Erwin Schrödinger Fellow at the International History Department at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna, Austria. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Academy, the École normale supérieure and the Leibniz Institute for European History, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, Gerda Henkel Fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich and Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Tartu.  

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Chicago Regime and Early (Dis)Connectedness.- 3. Building an Empire of the Red Air.- 4. Raising the Stakes.- 5. Trading Bananas for Permafrost.- 6. In the Shadows of Backwardness.- 7. Relations Cool Down and KAL 007 Incident.- 8. Bloc Aviation under Late Socialism.- 9. Conclusion.

Review

"Svik's work is well researched and adds important details to the story of aviation and globalization, particularly during the crucial post–World War II decades. … those interested in how the Cold War context complicated the history of post-war commercial aviation, driven by tensions not only between the United States and the Soviet Union, but also between the Unites States and its allies, will find this work valuable." (Janet R. Daly Bednarek, Technology and Culture, Vol. 63 (2), April, 2022)

Feature

Explores the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization and Cold War politics Argues that the advancement of Soviet civil aircraft engineering triggered the globalization of the Cold War in the 1950s Takes a global approach to the transfer of knowledge and technical expertise, offering a more nuanced perspective on the relationship between the Communist world, Western Europe and the US

Details ISBN3030516059 Author Peter Svik Pages 245 Series Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 3030516059 ISBN-13 9783030516055 Format Paperback DEWEY 629.1309045 Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition 1st Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Publication Date 2021-08-12 UK Release Date 2021-08-12 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; VII, 245 p. 1 illus. Edition Description 1st ed. 2020 Alternative 9783030516024 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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