14 November
4-4:45 pm
Chair: Klaus Ziemer (Neckarsteinach)
Uwe Müller (Leipzig), Introduction. East Central European Planned Economies in the global Economy (1945-1990)
5.15-7.30 pm
1. The CMEA. A transnational Institution which works?
Simon Godard (Geneva), Internationalism as a vocation? Considerations on the working culture of CMEA-public servants
Erik Radisch (Bochum/Leipzig), Soviet Concepts of the Comecon (1956-1971)
Jan Lomícek (Prague), Czechoslovak participation in joint projects within the CMEA in the seventies and eighties of 20th century
8:00 Reception
15. November
2. Case studies about branches
Chair: Zdenek Lukas (Vienna)
9.30-11.00 am
Pál Germuska (Budapest), A Special case of Branch-Cooperation. Military Industrial Collaboration in the frames of the CMEA
Mila Oiva (Turku), Competition and the Socialist Integration – Contradictory Concepts? The case of Polish exports of ready-to-wear clothes to the Soviet Union
11.30 am-1 pm
Zsombor Bódy (Budapest), Semantic of Political Economy of the International Relations in the COMECOM. The Example of the Hungarian Ikarus Buses. 1957-1975
Christopher Mady (Bochum), Hungarian Foreign Trade Relations in the Automobile Industry
2 pm – 4.15 pm
3. Relations between West and East
Chair: Karl von Delhaes (Marburg)
Mikhail Lipkin (Moscow), The perception of west European integration in the USSR
Angela Romano (London), Defensive and transformative: the European Community's policy towards the Comecon since the early 1970s
Suvi Kansikas (Helsinki), The CMEA as an arena for competing national interests
4.45 – 6.15 pm
Johan Schot/Jira Janac (Eindhoven), Tensions of Sovietization and Europeanization of Railway Governance system in East-Central Europe
Peter Švík (Bratislava), Reflections on the general trends in the East-West trade with civil aviation technology in 1960s and 1970s
6.30 pm
Sitzung der Fachkommission (nur für Fachkommissionsmitglieder)
8.00 pm
Conference Dinner
16 November
9.00 – 11.15 am
4. The CMEA in the global economy
Chair: Sebastian Kinder (Tübingen)
Christian Gerlach (Bern), Reintegration into the capitalist world market? Grain imports to Eastern Europe in the 1970s and their implications
Radek Soběhart (Prag), „Es lebe Oberst Muammar Gaddafi!“. Tschechoslowakisch-libysche Beziehungen (1974-1985). Ein Beitrag zum globalen Kalten Krieg.
Martin Dangerfield (Wolverhampton), Post-CMEA Economic Relations of Former Soviet Bloc Countries and Russia: Continuity and Change
11.45 am – 1.15 pm
5. Final Section
Christoph Boyer (Salzburg), Comments
Dagmara Jajeśniak Quast (Leipzig/Frankfurt-Oder), Closing remarks: Multiple international dimensions of Comecon. New research approach of old phenomena.