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Gorbachev's CMEA Policy and the End of the Cold War

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K13388
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 03040:History of Europe and America-related
Research InstitutionKobe University

Principal Investigator

Fujisawa Jun  神戸大学, 人文学研究科, 准教授 (90801100)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords冷戦史 / ソ連史 / コメコン / 西洋史
Outline of Research at the Start

本研究の目的は、ゴルバチョフによるコメコン改革の試みとそれに対する東欧諸国の反応を分析することで、1980年代後半のコメコン改革が社会主義圏の解体ならびに冷戦の終焉過程に与えた影響を実証的に解明することにある。これまで研究者の関心は、ソ連・東欧の二国間関係やソ連一国と発展途上国との関係の解明に集中してきた。そのため、従来の研究では、ゴルバチョフの対外経済政策およびソ連・東欧経済関係におけるコメコンの重要性が見落とされていた。そこで、本研究では、ゴルバチョフのコメコン改革の試みとそれに対する東欧諸国の反応を実証的に解明することで、ソ連・東欧圏の解体に至るプロセスを新しい視点から検討する。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study has analyzed the process leading up to the dissolution of Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) in 1991 on the basis of Soviet and East German archival documents. The scholarship often presupposed that the CMEA came to a "natural" death after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of socialist system in Eastern Europe. As this research shows, however, the dissolution of the CMEA was not as self-evident as has been considered. In fact, even the Central European countries agreed to co-found a new successor organization of the CMEA with consultative functions since the EC rejected their immediate membership. After the Visegrad agreement in February 1991, however, they retracted their position and decided jointly to disband the organization without any successors.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の成果は、国際組織はどのようにして「終わる」のかという国際関係論の議論に有益な一例を提供できる。解散された国際組織は機能不全で非効率であったため、「終わり」は自明であったと考えられがちであるが、本研究が明らかにしたように、コメコンのように非効率な組織であっても、40年にわたって維持されるなかで、各国の対外経済関係を大きく規定してきた。そのため、いざ終わらせるときに、後継組織の有無や別組織への吸収等をめぐって活発な議論が繰り広げられ、現に行われたような形での解散は必ずしも唯一の選択肢でもなければ自明でもなかった。こうしたアプローチは、他の消滅した国際組織の研究においても有益であろう。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] フィンランド科学アカデミー(フィンランド)

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ミュンヘン大学/ライプニッツ・東欧歴史文化研究センター(ドイツ)

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Soviet Aid and the Mongolian Economy: The Global South in CMEA, 1962-19912023

    • Author(s)
      Fujisawa Jun
    • Journal Title

      Cold War History

      Volume: - Issue: 3 Pages: 1-22

    • DOI

      10.1080/14682745.2023.2232309

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] ソ連のコメコン改革構想とその挫折:1990―91年の域内交渉過程を中心に2021

    • Author(s)
      藤澤 潤
    • Journal Title

      史学雑誌

      Volume: 第130編1号 Pages: 1-35

    • NAID

      130008143286

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Dissolution of the CMEA2022

    • Author(s)
      Suvi Kansikas, Jun Fujisawa
    • Organizer
      Vanished Institutions. Life and Death of Europe’s International Organizations
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Reforming the Unreformable? Gorbachev and His Attempt for the Perestroika of CMEA2021

    • Author(s)
      Jun Fujisawa
    • Organizer
      10th World Congress of International Council for Central and East European Studies
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Soviet Union, the Central European countries, and the End of the CMEA2021

    • Author(s)
      Jun Fujisawa
    • Organizer
      Online Workshop "Blind Spots of Cold War Economies: The End of Comecon"
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Gorbachev, Common European Home, and the Reform of the CMEA, 1985-19912020

    • Author(s)
      Jun Fujisawa
    • Organizer
      Friendship of Convenience. COMECON Member-Countries Facing the Cold War
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Mongolia in CMEA2020

    • Author(s)
      Jun Fujisawa
    • Organizer
      Alternative Forms of Globalization? The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) as Development Organization
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Development Aid within the Socialist Bloc. The Soviet Union, the CMEA and Mongolia2019

    • Author(s)
      Jun Fujisawa
    • Organizer
      Legacy of the CMEA Cooperation
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] CMEA on the Eve of Perestroika. Summit Meeting of CMEA countries in June 19842019

    • Author(s)
      Jun Fujisawa
    • Organizer
      Cold War East-West Divide. Conflict, Cooperation and Trade
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Soviet-East European Relations on the Eve of Perestroika2019

    • Author(s)
      Jun Fujisawa
    • Organizer
      The 10th East Asian Conference on Slavic Eurasian Studies
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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