Introduction, Peter Ruggenthaler and Aryo Makko

PART I. Theories and Practices of Neutrality in Cold War Europe

Chapter 1: Austria's Neutrality-Myth versus Reality, Franz Cede

Chapter 2: Swedish Neutrality, 1949-1991, Olof Kronvall

Chapter 3: Swiss Cold War Neutrality: Undisputed Principle of Foreign Policy, Thomas Fischer

Chapter 4: Neutrality as Compromises: Finland's Cold War Neutrality, Johanna Rainio-Niemi

PART II. The Neutrals in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev

Chapter 5: Swedish Neutrality: The View from Moscow, Alexey Komarov

Chapter 6: Soviet Attitudes to Finnish Neutralism, 1947-1989, Kimmo Rentola

Chapter 7: A Hidden Danger for the Eastern Bloc? Neutral Austria in Soviet Policy from 1955 to the End of the Cold War, Peter Ruggenthaler

Chapter 8 The Soviet Union and Neutral Switzerland: Concerns and Hopes in 1989, Olga Pavlenko

PART III. The Soviet Union in the Policies of the European Neutrals

Chapter 9: Old Fears, New Realities: Sweden and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Aryo Makko

Chapter 10: From Aspiration to Consummation and Transition: Finnish Neutrality as Strategy in the Cold War, Kari Möttölä

Chapter 11: Indefinite Coexistence? Austria, the Soviet Union, and Ostpolitik after 1968, Maximilian Graf

Chapter 12: "Always Hit Back Right on the Kisser?": The Soviet Union in Swiss Foreign Policy during the Cold War, Sacha Zala, Thomas Bürgisser, and Thomas Fischer

PART IV. Departures from the Eastern Bloc to Neutrality

Chapter 13: Soviet-Yugoslav Relations, 1948-1955: From Conflict to Rapprochement, Andrei Edemskii

Chapter 14: The Neutrality of Hungary during the 1956 Revolution, Csaba Békés

Chapter 15: Albania: Exploiting Relevance and Irrelevance during the Cold War, Robert C. Austin

Chapter 16: The USSR and Yugoslavia's Policy of Nonalignment, 1955-1980, Nadia Boyadjieva

Chapter 17: How Could the Nonaligned Save Yugoslavia?: The 1989 Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries in Belgrade and the Breakup of Yugoslavia, Tvrtko Jakovina

PART V. Western Perspectives on Neutrality and Neutral-Soviet Relations

Chapter 18: The United States and Neutrality in Scandinavia, Jussi M. Hanhimäki

Chapter 19: United States and Austrian Neutrality during the Cold War, Günter Bischof

Chapter 20: The United Kingdom and the European Neutrals during the Cold War, Anne Deighton

Chapter 21: France, the European Neutrals, and the USSR, 1947-1981, Nicolas Badalassi

Chapter 22: Neutrality in the Cold War: Views from West Germany, Andreas Hilger

Chapter 23: NATO and the Neutrals on the Flanks: Finland, Sweden, and Yugoslavia, Milorad Lazic and Magnus Petersson

PART VI. Conclusions

Chapter 24: The USSR and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe, Mark Kramer