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Record Nr.

UNINA9910321055003321

Autore

Hakkarainen Petri <1976->

Titolo

A state of peace in Europe : West Germany and the CSCE, 1966-1975 / / Petri Hakkarainen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2019

ISBN

1-78920-107-1

0-85745-294-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Studies in Contemporary European History

Disciplina

327.17094

Soggetti

European cooperation

Cold War

Europe Foreign relations Germany (West)

Germany (West) Foreign relations Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION - ERA OF NEGOTIATIONS; CHAPTER 2 - 1966-69 - INCUBATION OF STRATEGIES; CHAPTER 3 - 1969-70 - BILATERAL LEVERAGES AND EUROPEAN SECURITY; CHAPTER 4 - 1970-71 - TRANSITION TO WESTERN MULTILATERALISM; CHAPTER 5 - 1971-72 - TOWARDS A EUROPEAN PEACE ORDER?; CHAPTER 6 - 1972-75 - DEUTSCHLANDPOLITIK AT THE CONFERENCE; CHAPTER 7 - CONCLUSION - EVOLUTION INSTEAD OF REVOLUTION; SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 East-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