Mariko Sato

Principal Investigator

Researcher info

Institution

University of Jyväskylä/Academy of Finland

Department/faculty

History and Ethnology

Contact information

mariko.sato@academies.fi
0440528120

Keywords
Cold War history Diplomacy foreign policy International Relations Non-aligned Movement Non-Alignment post-colonial state development Soviet Union The Mediterranean area

Research projects

Asserting Independence in the Post-Colonial Sea: Non-Alignment, Russia and the West in the Mediterranean (RUSMED)

  • Project date 1.8.2015
  • Head of research Rinna Kullaa
  • Language n/a

Many have argued that the shared history of the Mediterranean ended as the Great Powers withdrew from the area after the First and the Second World Wars. As the European colonial powers were expelled from eastern and southern coasts they reorganized themselves in the European Community and carried on with new northwesterly and transatlantic trajectories. Yet, the influence of the two Superpowers, the US and the USSR stepped into the Mediterranean as powerful opposing forces in the bipolar Cold War.

Team

Mariko Sato, Leyla Dakhli, Houda ben Hamouda.