Soft Influence Sphere Case Study In Cold War Period

Before and after the end of World WarⅡ, The major victors redrew the international spheres of influence according to the Yalta system.The kind of traditional pattern of international relations, empire-colonial-spheres of influence, has fundamentally changed.Accordinglly, the concept and meaning of spheres of influence also have changed. As the national and foreign policy between the Soviet Union and the United States are the essence of different, their sphere of influence policies also are significantly different.In the era of World WarⅡAmerican Refused to accept to establish spheres of influence in the post-war, howevere, it acceptted the realities of the spheres.As a subsidiary of Russia in history through two world wars, Finland still remained independence, took the path of Western-style of democracy, and avoided the mistakes of other countries in Eastern Europe, by becoming the Soviet Union’s "soft sphere of influence".This paper introduces the concept of spheres of influence, on the sphere and soft sphere of influence has to understand and grasp the concept. Soft sphere of influence is a weak political power to accept or adapt to a series of measures to formally or informally established some sort of dependence, and this dependence is that it is willing to endure the purpose is to avoid being conquered or More direct rule by the danger; By introducing the Yalta system, a clear Soviet sphere of influence in post-war division of their analysis of the Soviet sphere of influence after World WarⅡpolicy, compared to the Soviet sphere of influence policy differences; Finland, as the Nordic countries, first introduced the historical development of Finland’s relations with the Soviet Union to Finland as a special case, a detailed analysis of how the Soviet Union, Finland is the "soft spheres of influence" and the Soviet Union to take specific measures, the United States Finland, the Soviet policy of "soft spheres of influence" What are the consequences, in the face of Finland into the Soviet Union "soft spheres of influence" of the fact that the U.S. adopted a positive policy, to prevent the Soviet Union to Finland fierce attitude deterioration of Finland and the Nordic Regional balance, the United States and the formation of the Nordic strategy.Through researching Finland as a "soft sphere of influence" of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we can see the Multiple impact of "soft spheres of influence", Finland positive impact of the three countries to ensure that the Soviet Union’s own security, Russia and Finland and the balance Delicate balance between; meet the requirements of the U.S. Nordic strategy, control of the Soviet Union’s further expansion in the Nordic region; for Finland, to avoid being occupied and maintained the independence and national development in Finland created a stable internal conditions and good The external environment in which the Finnish economy continued to improve after the end of the Cold War.