Date: 2020
Type: Contribution to book
The imperative of opening to the West and the impact of the 1968 crisis : Bulgaria’s cooperation with Denmark and West Germany in the 1960s
Laureen CRUMP and Susanna ERLANDSSON (eds), Margins for manoeuvre in Cold War Europe : the influence of smaller powers, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2020, Routledge studies in modern European history, pp. 110-129
STANOEVA, Elitza, The imperative of opening to the West and the impact of the 1968 crisis : Bulgaria’s cooperation with Denmark and West Germany in the 1960s, in Laureen CRUMP and Susanna ERLANDSSON (eds), Margins for manoeuvre in Cold War Europe : the influence of smaller powers, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2020, Routledge studies in modern European history, pp. 110-129
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Exemplifying small-state diplomacy in the straitjacket of Soviet geopolitics, the foreign policy of socialist Bulgaria was a matter of precarious ‘manoeuvring’ – a word that Todor Zhivkov, head of state and party until 1989, often used to selfcongratulate his political shrewdness. 2 Towards the West, his was a strategy of manoeuvring national interests in uncharted waters around the ‘icebergs’ of superpower geopolitics.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/66408
Full-text via DOI: 10.4324/9780429425592
ISBN: 9780429425592
Publisher: Routledge
Grant number: H2020/669194/EU
Sponsorship and Funder information:
The research leading to this article is part of the project PanEur1970s, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [Grant Agreement No. 669194]
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