Trust, but verify : the politics of uncertainty and the transformation of the Cold War order, 1969-1991 / / Martin Klimke, Reinhild Kreis, and Christian F. Ostermann [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154598503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-5036-0013-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
• Collana: Cold War International History Project series
• Disciplina: 327.09047
• Soggetti: Cold War; Detente - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Personal Factor -- 1. Untrusting and Untrusted: Mao’s China at a Crossroads, 1969 -- 2. “No Crowing”: Reagan, Trust, and Human Rights -- 3. Trust between Adversaries and Allies: President George H. W. Bush, Trust, and the End of the Cold War -- II. Risk, Commitment, and Verification: The Blocs at the Negotiating Table -- 4. Trust and Mistrust and the American Struggle for Verification of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, 1969–1979 -- 5. Trust and Transparency at the CSCE, 1969–1975 -- 6. Trust or Verification? Accepting Vulnerability in the Making of the INF Treaty -- III. Between Consolidation and Corrosion: Trust inside the Ideological Blocs of East and West -- 7. Whom Did the East Germans Trust? Popular Opinion on Threats of War, Confrontation, and Détente in the German Democratic Republic, 1968–1989 -- 8. Not Quite “Brothers in Arms”: East Germany and People’s Poland between Mutual Dependency and Mutual Distrust, 1975–1990 -- 9. Institutionalizing Trust? Regular Summitry (G7s and European Councils) from the Mid-1970s until the Mid-1980s -- 10. Trust through Familiarity: Transatlantic Relations and Public Diplomacy in the 1980s -- IV. On the Sidelines or in the Middle? Small and Neutral States -- 11. “Footnotes” as an Expression of Distrust? The United States and the NATO “Flanks” in the Last Two Decades of the Cold War -- 12. Switzerland and Détente: A Revised Foreign Policy Characterized ; by Distrust -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Trust, but Verify' uses trust - with its emotional and predictive aspects - to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s. The détente of the 1970s led to the development of some limited trust between the United States and the Soviet Union, which lessened international tensions and enabled advances in areas such as arms control. However, it also created uncertainty in other areas, especially on the part of smaller states that depended on their alliance leaders for protection. The contributors to this volume look at how the 'emotional' side of the conflict affected the dynamics of various Cold War relations: between the superpowers, within the two ideological blocs, and inside individual countries on the margins of the East-West confrontation.