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Review Of Beyond And Between The Cold War Blocs, Wen-Qing (Wei Wenqing) Ngoei
Review Of Beyond And Between The Cold War Blocs, Wen-Qing (Wei Wenqing) Ngoei
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In their introduction to this special issue of The International History Review, Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, Sandra Bott, Jussi Hanhimaki and Marco Wyss state that this collection of papers examines “what independent pathways” existed for peripheral states, independence movements, or regional alliances “within the Cold War system that were not directly subjected to the East-West confrontation” (902).And there is, in principle, much to recommend this endeavor. As the introduction rightly points out, there is abundant evidence of middle and smaller powers as well as non-state actors who pursued their objectives through “an extensive array of strategies” that “did not easily fit …