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Informationen zum Autor Günter Bischof is a university research professor and director of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans, Louisiana.Stefan Karner is head of the Department of Economic, Social, and Business History at the University of Graz and director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research of War Consequences, Graz-Vienna.Barbara Stelzl-Marx is deputy director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research of War Consequences and lecturer at the University of Graz. Klappentext At the beginning of June 1961, the tensions of the Cold War were supposed to abate as both sides sought a resolution. The two most important men in the world, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, met for a summit in Vienna. Yet the high hopes were disappointed. Within months... Zusammenfassung At the beginning of June 1961! the tensions of the Cold War were supposed to abate as both sides sought a resolution. The two most important men in the world! John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev! met for a summit in Vienna. Yet the high hopes were disappointed. Within months... Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Introduction and Historical ContextChapter 1: Introduction: The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History, Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, Barbara Stelzl-MarxChapter 2: Summitry in the Twentieth Century: An Overview, David ReynoldsPart II: Contextualizing the Vienna SummitUnited States, France, and Great BritainChapter 3: "The First Test of [. . .] Détente Will Be the Berlin Negotiation": Berlin, Disarmament, and the 1960 Paris Summit, Richard D. Williamson Chapter 4: "Vienna, a City that is Symbolic of the Possibility of Finding Equitable Solutions": John F. Kennedy and His European Summitry in Early June 1961, Günter Bischof and Martin KoflerChapter 5: Great Britain and the Vienna Summit of June 1961, Anne DeightonChapter 6: Paris as Beneficiary of the Unsuccessful Vienna Summit, Georges-Henri SoutouSoviet UnionChapter 7: Soviet-American Relations in the Early 1960s, Vladimir PechatnovChapter 8: Between Pragmatism and Ideology: The U.S. -Soviet Negotiating Process in the Khrushchev Era, Ol'ga PavlenkoAsia and AfricaChapter 9: Casting a Long Shadow over Vienna: The Chinese Factor in the Vienna Summit, Michail ProzumenshchikovChapter 10: Laos and the Vienna Summit, Lawrence FreedmanPart III: The SummitChapter 11: Two Days of Drama: Preparation and Execution of the Vienna Summit, Barbara Stelzl-MarxChapter 12: A Difficult Education: John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev in Vienna, Timothy NaftaliChapter 13: "Summit Ladies": Gender Arrangements, Media Staging, and Symbolic Scenes of the 1961Vienna Summit Talks, Ingrid BauerChapter 14: Moral Masculinity: Gender, Power, and the Kennedy-Khrushchev Relationship, Jennifer Lynn WaltonChapter 15: On the Significance of Austrian Neutrality for Soviet Foreign Policy under Nikita S. Khrushchev, Peter RuggenthalerChapter 16: The Personal Recollections of a Presidential Adviser in Vienna, Ted SorensenChapter 17: The Personal Recollections of Khrushchev's Interpreter in Vienna, Viktor SukhodrevPart IV: The Berlin CrisisChapter 18: Khrushchev, the Berlin Wall, and the Demand for a Peace Treaty, 1961-1963, Gerhard Wettig Chapter 19: The Vienna Summit and the Construction of the Berlin Wall, Manfred WilkeAppendicesAppendix 1: Soviet Kennedy ProfileAppendix 2: CIA Profile of Krushchev in Kennedy's Briefing PapersAppendix 4:Krushchev's Presidium Statement before the Vienna TripAppendix 3-1:Memorandum of Conversation, Vienna, 3 June 1961, 12:45 p.m.Appendix 3-2:Memorandum of Conversation, Vienna, 3 June 1961, 3 p.m.Appendix 3-3:Memorandum of Conversation, Vienna, 4 June 1961, 10:15 a.m....
