Emotions and Positive Anti-communism during the Early Cold War

The Case of the Bilderberg Group
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dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage24
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume22
dc.contributor.authorGijswijt, Thomas W.
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-31T14:32:10Z
dc.date.available2025-01-31T14:32:10Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2025-01-28T11:12:02Z
dc.description.abstractIn the early 1950s, the Bilderberg Group became one of the first high-level informal transatlantic elite networks of the cold war. This article examines how the discussions at the Bilderberg Meetings were affected by the emotional nature of anti-communism on both sides of the Atlantic. On the one hand, ‘negative’ emotions resulting from the fear of communist infiltration and aggression could lead to the strengthening of transatlantic bonds. On the other hand, differences in political responses to communism could also lead to emotionally charged disagreements, as the first Bilderberg Conference in 1954 showed. As a result, the transatlantic discourse about anti-communism shifted towards the search for a strategy of positive anti-communism. The most important expression of this shift was the project of European integration.
dc.description.sponsorshipOpen Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
dc.description.sponsorshipEberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (1020)
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/s42738-024-00117-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3282
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.issn1479-4012
dc.relation.journalJournal of Transatlantic Studies
dc.rightsL::CC BY 4.0
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dc.subject.ddcddc:940
dc.subject.ddcddc:320
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudies
dc.subject.fieldpoliticalscience
dc.subject.fieldhistory
dc.subject.fieldbritishstudies
dc.titleEmotions and Positive Anti-communism during the Early Cold War
dc.title.alternativeThe Case of the Bilderberg Group
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