title: Non-state Actors in East-West Relations
abstract: This introductory chapter sets out the main goals of the Handbook. It introduces the focus of the project as an appraisal of the impact of the relationship between non-state actors (NSAs) and state actors on the dynamics of “East-West relations” in the Cold War and post-Cold-War periods. That is, between NSAs and Western states; and between NSAs and the Soviet Union (later the Russian Federation) along with the Cold War Eastern bloc countries (later the post-socialist countries of East-Central E