Finlands Search for Security through Defence, 194489 [Paperback]

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.Introduction; the years of danger, 1944-47; the Cold War reaches the north, 1948-49; do not tease the bear , 1949-1955; the Soviet withdrawal from the Porkkala naval base in 1956; one-armed neutrality, 1956-61; the note crisis in 1961; security through active foreign policy , 1964-1970; neutrality under pressure, 1971-1982; towards symmetric defence.