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A Finnish political analyst, Jan-Magnus Jansson, has characterised Kekkonen’s first presidential term (1956–62) as a period of attempts to prevent crises in foreign affairs and his second (1962–68) as a period when Finland’s neutrality was consolidated.1 During his third period in office (1968–79) Kekkonen’s ‘preventive foreign policy’ of the 1960s became the ‘active peace policy of neutrality’ of the 1970s.
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Jan-Magnus Jansson, ‘An Expanding Foreign Policy’, Yearbook of Finnish Foreign Policy 1975 (Helsinki: The Finnish Institute of Foreign Affairs, 1975) p. 41.
Roy Allison, Finland’s Relations with the Soviet Union 1944–84 (New York: St Martin’s, 1984) p. 99.
T. Bartenev-Y. Komissarov, Tridsat let dobrososedstva. K istorii Sovetskofinlandskikh otnoshenii (Moscow: Izdatelstvo Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniya, 1976), pp. 105–106.
J. K. Paasikivi, President J. K. Paasikivis Minnen 1939–1940 (Stockholm: Bonniers, 1958) p. 210.
Väino Tanner, The Winter War (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1957) p. 84.
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Lindahl, I. (1988). The Finnish Paradox and the Nordic Balance. In: The Soviet Union and the Nordic Nuclear-Weapons-Free-Zone Proposal. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09320-5_6
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