1st Edition

The Making of Détente Eastern Europe and Western Europe in the Cold War, 1965-75

Edited By Wilfried Loth, George Soutou Copyright 2008
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Containing essays by leading Cold War scholars, such as Wilfried Loth, Geir Lundestad and Seppo Hentilä, this volume offers a broad-ranging examination of the history of détente in the Cold War. The ten years from 1965 to 1975 marked a deep transformation of the bipolar international system of the Cold War. The Vietnam War and the Prague Spring showed the limits of the two superpowers, who... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: Background Structural Problems  1. Cold War, Culture and Propaganda  2. Convergence Theories in France in the Sixties and Seventies  Part 2: The Problems of the Eastern Bloc  3. The “Mejdunarodniki” in the Sixties and Seventies: Background, Connections and Agenda of Soviet International Elites  4. The Sofia Spring 5. Yugoslavia: International Problems and International Role  Part 3: Tensions and Recoveries in the Western Alliance  6. American-Western European Relations (not) Redfined (1969-1977)  7. France and NATO (1966-1976)  8. The Harmel Report (1967) and the Consolidation of the Western Alliance  9. Ostpolitik and its Impact on the Federal Republic’s Relationship with the West  10. American Policy towards Moscow and the Fear in Western Europe of a Soviet-American Condominium  Part 4: Security in Europe and the Helsinki Process  11. The Federal Republic of Germany and European Security 12. Britain and the Helsinki Process  13. Giscard d’Estaing and the East  14. Finland and the Two German States  15. The Warsaw Pact and the Helsinki Process  16. The Limits of Helsinki: Kissinger and the 1974 Portuguese Revolution

Biography

Wilfried Loth is professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Chairman of the EU Liaison Committee of Historians.

Georges-Henri Soutou is professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV).