Chapter 1 OPENING UP POLITICAL SPACE Informal Diplomacy, East-West Exchanges, and the Helsinki Process

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1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS VII
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VIII
5. Introduction BEYOND THE DIVIDE 1
6. PART I POLITICAL PROCESSES AND TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS
7. Chapter 1 OPENING UP POLITICAL SPACE Informal Diplomacy, East-West Exchanges, and the Helsinki Process 23
8. Chapter 2 CHALLENGING OLD COLD WA STEREOTYPES: The Case of Danish-Polish Youth Exchange and the European Détente, 1965–75 44
9. Chapter 3 TRANSMITTING THE “FREEDOM VIRUS” France, the USSR, and Cultural Aspects of European Security Cooperation 63
10. Chapter 4 CULTURAL DIPLOMACY OF SWITZERLAND AND THE CHALLENGE OF PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE, 1956–75 82
11. PART II INTERPLAY IN THE ACADEMIC CONTEXTS
12. Chapter 5 EXPERT GROUPS CLOSING THE DIVIDE Estonian-Finnish Computing Cooperation since the 1960s 101
13. Chapter 6 FRENCH-ROMANIAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGES IN THE 1960S 121
14. Chapter 7 HUNGARY OPENS TOWARD THE WEST Political Preconditions for Finnish-Hungarian Cooperation in Research and Development in the 1960s and 1970s 138
15. Chapter 8 “DISCREET” INTERMEDIARIES: Transnational Activities of the Fondation pour une entraide intellectuelle européenne, 1966–91 151
16. PART III LIMITATIONS FOR TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS
17. Chapter 9 THE IMAGE OF “REAL FRANCE” Instrumentalization of French Culture in the Early Communist Czechoslovakia 177
18. Chapter 10 DEALING WITH “FRIENDS” Soviet Friendship Societies in Western Europe as a Challenge for Western Diplomacy 196
19. Chapter 11 THE SOVIET UNION ENCOUNTERS ANGLIA Britain’s Russian Magazine as a Medium for Cross-Border Communication 218
20. PART IV ALONG THE BORDERLINES
21. Chapter 12 TRANSNATIONAL TELEVISION IN EUROPE Cold War Competition and Cooperation 237
22. Chapter 13 TRANSNATIONAL SPACES BETWEEN POLAND AND FINLAND Grassroots Efforts to Dismantle the Iron Curtain and Their Political Entanglements 257
23. Chapter 14 A FILTER FOR WESTERN CULTURAL PRODUCTS The Influence of Italian Popular Culture on Yugoslavia, 1955–65 277
24. BIBLIOGRAPHY 295
25. INDEX 319