A State of Peace in Europe : West Germany and the CSCE, 1966-1975 EPUB

by Petri Hakkarainen

Part of the Studies in Contemporary European History series

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From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s West German foreign policy underwent substantial transformations: from bilateral to multilateral, from reactive to proactive. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was an ideal setting for this evolution, enabling the Federal Republic to take the lead early on in Western preparations for the conference and to play a decisive role in the actual Eastâ€“West negotiations leading to the Helsinki Final Act of 1975. Based on extensive original research of recently released documents, spanning more than fifteen archives in eight countries, this study is a substantial contribution to scholarly discussions on the history of dÃ©tente, the CSCE and West German foreign policy. The author stresses the importance of looking beyond the bipolarity of the Cold War decades and emphasizes the interconnectedness of European integration and European dÃ©tente. He highlights the need to place the genesis of the CSCE conference in its historical context rather than looking at it through the prism of the events of 1989, and shows that the bilateral and multilateral elements (Ostpolitik and the CSCE) were parallel rather than successive phenomena, parts of the same complex process and in constant interaction with each other.

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Format:EPUB
Pages:304 pages
Publisher:Berghahn Books
Publication Date:01/12/2011
Category:
- European history
- Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2..
ISBN:9780857452948

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