Perforating the Iron Curtain: European Détente, Transatlantic Relations, and the Cold War, 1965-1985The relaxation of the Cold War Bloc tensions in the 1970s ? the so-called - détente process ?- was a watershed in the history of the Cold War. Recent research suggests that this process is far more significant than previously believed for understanding and explaining the developments that brought about the peaceful end of the Cold War in the late 1980s. The present collection of essays provides a rich and detailed account of many important yet neglected aspects of these processes. The contributions elucidate the European détente process from NGO grass-root as well as top diplomatic level perspectives, including the Helsinki Conference and the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, and in particular its stipulations on respect of human rights and human contacts across the Iron Curtain. The contributions are original research based on recently opened and not previously used state and private archives in Western and Eastern Europe and in the United States. Together, they shed new and fascination light on a defining chapter in recent European history. |
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Sommario
The Secrets of European Detente | 7 |
What It Was About and Why It Ended | 19 |
Polish Reactions to the West German Ostpolitik and EastWest Detente 19661978 | 35 |
Conflicting Perceptions and Strategies 196519751 | 57 |
The Brandt Government and the Nixon Administration on the Road to Helsinki | 79 |
The Survival of the Transformation Strategy during the Nixon Years | 101 |
Fostering Detente in Europe | 123 |
The N+N as Catalysts of the CSCE Process 19721983 | 143 |
A Sort of Lifeline for Eastern Europe | 179 |
Transatlantic Relations Human Rights and Power Politics | 195 |
Approaches and Controversies | 215 |
From Helsinki to Belgrade | 243 |
Contributors | 253 |
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Parole e frasi comuni
activists agenda agreement Alliance allies Ambassador American Archives Austrian Basket Belgrade Belgrade meeting bilateral Bonn Brandt Brezhnev Brunner Cold Cold War Communist Cooperation in Europe coordination Country Files CSCE CSCE process December declaration delegation détente diplomatic East and West East Berlin East-West Eastern Europe Eastern European dissidents EC member economic European Security February follow-up meeting Foreign Minister foreign policy France freer movement GDR’s Gomulka Helsinki Accords Helsinki Final Act History human rights initiative issue January Jarzabek KC PZPR Kissinger Kissinger’s KSZE Madrid martial law MBFR memcon Memorandum Moscow Helsinki Group multilateral NARA NATO negotiations neutral and non-aligned Nixon NPMP NSC Files Oliver Bange Ostpolitik Paris peace Poland Polish political President proposal PZPR Reagan relations role SAPMO Security and Cooperation Solidarnosc Sonnenfeldt Soviet Union strategy superpowers Swiss tion Treaty Ulbricht United Warsaw Pact Washington West German Western White House Wilfried Loth