East-West Cooperation at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
The founding history of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) during Cold War détente as well as the Institute’s activities until 1989 demonstrate how scientific cooperation and knowledge transfer was successfully initiated and conducted across the East-West divide. This study retraces structures of this collaboration, focusing specifically on two international research programmes of wiiw: the Fellowship Programme and the Workshops on East-West European Economic Interactions.
Keywords: Founding history of wiiw, research programmes, East-West scientific cooperation, Cold War détente
JEL classification: B20, B31, N14, N44, N84
Countries covered: CESEE