Reconciliation Road - Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace

Among postwar political leaders, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt played one of the most significant roles in reconciling Germans with other Europeans and in creating the international framework that enabled peaceful reunification in 1990. Based on extensive archival research, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of Brandt's Ostpolitik from its inception until the end of the Cold War through the lens of reconciliation. Here, Benedikt Schoenborn gives us a Brandt who passionately insisted on a gradual reduction of Cold War hostility and a lasting European peace, while remaining strategically and intellectually adaptable in a way that exemplified the 'imaginativeness of history'.

List of contents

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Roads to Reconciliation

Chapter 2. The First Step: Coexistence (1955-1966)

Chapter 3. Projecting East-West Reconciliation (1966-1969)

Chapter 4. Summit Meetings as Icebreakers (1969-1971)

Chapter 5. Developing New Frameworks (1971-1974)

Chapter 6. Maintaining Contacts with the East (1974-1992)

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Benedikt Schoenborn is an Associate Professor at Tampere University in Finland. His publications include the award-winning book La mésentente apprivoisée: de Gaulle et les Allemands, 1963-1969 (Paris 2007), and, with J.M. Hanhimäki and B. Zanchetta, Transatlantic Relations since 1945: An Introduction (London 2012).

Product details

• Authors: Benedikt Schoenborn, Schoenborn Benedikt
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781789207002
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-700-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Contemporary European History; Studies in Contemporary European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General