Dean Vuletic is a historian of contemporary Europe who specialises in the Eurovision Song Contest, including as a media commentator and public speaker. He began teaching the world’s first university course on Eurovision at New York University; as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna, he then led a research project on the history of Eurovision. He holds a PhD in modern European history from Columbia University, and he currently lectures at the University of Luxembourg.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Europe’s Greatest Television Show Part 1 The Cold War, 1945–1989 1 The Western European Arrangement2 The Show of Nations3 A Contest for CommunismPart 2 European Unification, 1990–20254 A Concert of Europe5 The Value of Eurovision6 The Global Song ContestConclusion: From Switzerland to Switzerland Notes Sources Index

Never has the history of Eurovision been placed in its international context as in this truly inventive book.