National Security, Security of Supply. Finlandisation as a Diplomatic Practice and the Finnish Energy Dependency on the Soviet Union, 1948–1992

This article examines the intermingling of national security and oil supply in Finland through Finnish policy, 1948–1992. During Cold War, built its economy based on Soviet instead diversity multilateral cooperation. That was closely related to overarching War policy that prioritised political economic relations with Union, referred as finlandisation. The scrutinises ubiquitous influence society shows how finlandisation a strategy transformed into practice. Two factors explain why became dependent oil: double-coupling welfare quest for stability relations. longevity dependency imports export revenues an established pattern reasoning decision-making. However, not passive actor but managed extensive socio-technical systems, including infrastructure other suppliers.