德国政治学家理查德·劳温索尔在1961年桕林危机结束后不久首先使用了“芬兰化”这个词。其目的是想告诫人们,苏联现在正力图用以往对芬兰所采取的胁迫手法来达到在欧洲施加影响的目的。因此,芬兰化一词的使用就具有了广泛的甚至是威慑力的涵意。它表达了西方对苏联同北约或在美国保护之外的任何西欧国家发展双边关系而导至世界力量不平衡所 The German political scientist Richard Lowensor first used the term “Finnish” in 1961, shortly after the end of the Tallinn crisis. Its purpose is to remind people that the Soviet Union is now trying to exert its influence in Europe in the past with the coercive tactics it adopted against Finland. Therefore, the use of the term Finnish has a broad and even deterrent meaning. It expresses the Western reaction to the unbalanced power of the world caused by the development of bilateral relations between the Soviet Union and NATO or any Western European country outside the protection of the United States