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Finlandization: Paradoxes of External and Internal Dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Erkki Berndtson
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THE POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL MAP OF EUROPE CHANGED dramatically during 1989 and 1990. Recent developments have totally demolished the old rules and beliefs that have guided relations between nations. Although some scholars have even argued about the final victory of liberalism, contemporary international relations are nevertheless far from unproblematic. The internal development of former European socialist societies is not yet complete and the North-South conflict seems to be intensifying. Relations between small and big nations still often threaten stability in the contemporary world.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , 01 January 1991 , pp. 21 - 33
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1991

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