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Finland’s Search for Security through Defence, 1944–89

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  • © 1991

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  1. Risto E. J. Penttilä
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Risto E. J. Penttilä
    Pages 1-5

  3. ‘The Years of Danger’, 1944–47

    • Risto E. J. Penttilä
    Pages 6-25

  4. The Cold War Reaches the North, 1948–49

    • Risto E. J. Penttilä
    Pages 26-41

  5. ‘Do Not Tease the Bear’, 1949–55

    • Risto E. J. Penttilä
    Pages 42-60

  6. The Soviet Withdrawal from the Porkkala Naval Base, 1956

    • Risto E. J. Penttilä
    Pages 61-76

  7. One-Armed Neutrality, 1956–61

    • Risto E. J. Penttilä
    Pages 77-92

  8. The Note Crisis: its Strategic Reasons and Consequences, 1961–63

    • Risto E. J. Penttilä
    Pages 93-110

  9. Security Through ‘Active Foreign Policy’, 1964–70

    • Risto E. J. Penttilä
    Pages 111-126

  10. Neutrality Under Pressure, 1970–81

    • Risto E. J. Penttilä
    Pages 127-148

  11. Towards Symmetric Defence, 1982–89

    • Risto E. J. Penttilä
    Pages 149-161

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 163-209
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Based on the author's doctoral dissertation at Oxford, this study examines with a historical perspective the national defence strategy of Finland 1944-1989. The author explores Finland's dilemma with respect to its geographic position and the Cold War politics between the US and the USSR.

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