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| Author: | Nilsson M. |
| Title: | Limiting diplomatic friction: Sweden, the United States and SKF's ball bearing exports to Eastern Europe, 195052 |
| Journal: | Scandinavian economic history review
2009 : NOV, VOL. 57:3 p. 273-288 |
| Index terms: | trade flexibility |
| Freeterms: | hegemony theory cold war SKF |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article tells about US government's efforts to control the Swedish ball bearing producer SKF's exports to the East early in the Cold War and interprets this process within the framework of hegemony theory. In doing this, the article makes use of previously unutilised US archival material. The period up to mid-1951 saw increasing US pressure upon Sweden and SKF to consent to US hegemony by abiding by the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) embargo. US tolerance and flexibility was dependent upon Swedish consent to American hegemony in Western Europe, which was received through the signing of the Stockholm agreement a hegemonic apparatus through which Sweden's abidance by the embargo was handled in mid-June 1951. The article also reveals the lack of policy co-ordination in the Swedish government, and the conflicts between the government and SKF regarding the responsibility for adhering to the embargo. |
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