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Christian Democracy’s Global Cold War

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Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain

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Kosicki answers a crucial question: what made it possible for East-Central Europe’s Christian Democratic émigrés to remain so active in exile, to develop and maintain such extensive partnerships across Western Europe and to establish a successful network of acolytes behind the Iron Curtain after 1956? It was American funding, logistical support and political knowledge funneled through the Free Europe Committee, Inc. that brought “Iron Curtain” Christians into European transnationalism. Nonetheless, the horizon line for these East-Central Europeans’ activities was never European integration, but rather a delicate balance of American Cold War geopolitics and East-Central European national sovereignty. By explaining what made the exiles’ transnational activities possible, this chapter also reveals the limitations of their commitments to the European idea.

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Kosicki, P.H. (2018). Christian Democracy’s Global Cold War. In: Kosicki, P., Łukasiewicz, S. (eds) Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64087-7_9

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