Forword

foreword to Anna Maria Scognamiglio, Chess Moves in the Energy Market. West German Strategical Use of Energy Trade with the East during the Cold War. Mimesis International, 2024. This foreword discusses this book by situating it in the framework of the historiography about the foreign economic policies of the Federal Republic of German throughout the Cold War to shed light on the relevance of West German trade relations with the GDR and the Eastern bloc countries at large through the case study of trade in oil and hydrocarbon compounds.