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Informationen zum Autor Stefan Karner is professor of modern history at University of Graz Barbara Stelzl-Marx is director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War, Graz – Vienna – Raabs; professor of contemporary history at the University of Graz; and vice-president of the Austrian UNESCO-Commission. Peter Ruggenthaler is the deputy director and a senior research fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War, in Graz, Austria. 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 the Cold War had become very hot: Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall and a year later he sent missiles to Cuba to threaten the United States directly. Despite the fact that the Vienna Summit yielded barely any tangible results, it did lead to some very important developments. The superpowers came to see for the first time that there was only one way to escape from the atomic hell of their respective arsenals: dialogue. The "peace through fear" and the "hotline" between Washington and Moscow prevented an atomic confrontation. Austria successfully demonstrated its new role as neutral state and host when Vienna became a meeting place in the Cold War. In The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History international experts use new Russian and Western sources to analyze what really happened during this critical time and why the parties had a close shave with catastrophe. 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 Context 1. Introduction: The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, Barbara Stelzl-Marx 2. Summitry in the Twentieth Century: An Overview David Reynolds Part II: Contextualizing the Vienna Summit United States, France, and Great Britain3. "The First Test of [. . .] Détente Will Be the Berlin Negotiation": Berlin, Disarmament, and the 1960 Paris Summit Richard D. Williamson 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 Kofler 5. Great Britain and the Vienna Summit of June 1961 Anne Deighton 6. Paris as Beneficiary of the Unsuccessful Vienna Summit Georges-Henri Soutou Soviet Union7. Soviet-American Relations in the Early 1960s Vladimir Pechatnov 8. Between Pragmatism and Ideology: The U.S. -Soviet Negotiating Process in the Khrushchev Era Ol'ga Pavlenko Asia and Africa9. Casting a Long Shadow over Vienna: The Chinese Factor in the Vienna Summit Michail Prozumenshchikov 10. Laos and the Vienna Summit Lawrence Freedman Part III: The Summit 11. Two Days of Drama: Preparation and Execution of the Vienna Summit Barbara Stelzl-Marx 12. A Difficult Education: John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev in Vienna Timothy Naftali 13. "Summit Ladies": Gender Arrangements, Media Staging, and Symbolic Scenes of the 1961Vienna Summit Talks Ingrid Bauer 14. Moral Masculinity: Gender, Power, and the Kennedy-Khrushchev Relationship Jennifer Lynn Walton 15. On the Significance of Austrian Neutrality for Soviet Foreign Policy under Nikita S. Khrushchev Peter Ruggenthaler 16. The Personal Recollections of a Presidential Adviser in Vienna Ted Sorensen 17. The Personal Recollections of Khrushchev's...
