Cold War or not? The Institute of World Economy and Politics and the Soviet foreign policy (1943-1948)

My hypothesis is that this relationship has determined, in the past as well as today, the Kremlin’s choice between a policy of cooperation or isolation toward the Western countries. For those reasons, the history of the Institute of World Economy and Politics helps to show that the Soviet political culture combined with the perception of external threats played a decisive role in the elaboration and legitimization of the foreign policy of the Kremlin. Here new elements are included: soviet political culture and perception of external threats.