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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wilfried Soutou Loth
• Assisted by: Wilfried Loth (Editor), Loth Wilfried (Editor), George Soutou (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2014
• EAN: 9780415761895
• ISBN: 978-0-415-76189-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cold War History; Cold War History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Eastern Europe, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Europe / Western, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Western Europe, c 1960 to c 1969, Western Continental Europe