Freedom and Security: The CSCE and the End of the Cold War (1986–1989) / / edited by Nina Hechenblaikner and Andrea Brait

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911046528903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025; ©2025
• ISBN: 90-04-73697-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 pages)
• Collana: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025; New Perspectives on the Cold War ; ; 12
• Disciplina: 910.82
• Soggetti: History; International relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- The CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Vienna (1986–1989) -- An Introduction -- Nina Hechenblaikner and Andrea Brait -- Moscow and Vienna on the Road to Helsinki -- Anna Graf-Steiner -- From Helsinki to Vienna -- The CSCE Process in the Second Cold War -- Hermann Wentker -- Austria’s “Mr. CSCE” Helmut Liedermann -- A Biographical Approach to the Helsinki Process -- Maximilian Graf -- The Concluding Document of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting, 15 January 1989 -- An Analysis of Its Drafting and an Interpretation in Comparison with Other Declarations -- Michael Gehler -- Negotiations on Cultural Cooperation at the Vienna Follow-up Meeting from the Perspective of the Austrian Foreign Ministry -- Andrea Brait -- The “neglected step-child” of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting? -- Basket II from the Perspective of the Austrian Foreign Ministry -- Roland Ernst Laimer -- Front Page News or Side Note? -- The Human Dimension of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Austrian and West German Newspapers -- Nina Hechenblaikner -- Questions of Security -- The Role of the Vienna Follow-up Meeting on the Road from the CDE to the CFE Treaty -- Jonas Kaiser -- Shifting Agendas? -- The United States, the Soviet Union and the Vienna CSCE, 1986–1989 -- Jussi M. ; Hanhimäki -- European Political Cooperation at the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting (1986–1989) -- Matthias Peter -- Divergent Neutral Strategies -- The N+N and the Issue of Disarmament -- Kai Habel -- East German Intelligence Perspectives on the CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Vienna -- Simon Graham -- A German-German Conflict in a Multilateral Framework -- The Debate on Compulsory Currency Exchange at the Vienna Follow-up Meeting -- Willi Schrenk -- Human Rights, the Vienna Follow-up Meeting and Political Transformation in the Eastern Bloc -- The Case of Poland -- Wanda Jarząbek -- The Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting and Czechoslovakia -- Miroslav Kunštát -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) served as an important negotiating forum beyond the confines of the Cold War. This volume focuses on the Vienna Follow-up Meeting (1986–1989), covering prominent issues, such as military security and human rights, as well as less explored topics, including culture and the environment. The book contextualises the Meeting within the CSCE process and global political events, presenting diverse perspectives, retrospectives, and outlooks. It offers insights into the latest scholarship on this important but largely under-researched diplomatic negotiation. Many contributions utilise previously unpublished and unresearched files, along with diplomats' memoirs, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and media reports. Contributors are: Andrea Brait, Michael Gehler, Maximilian Graf, Anna Graf-Steiner, Simon Graham, Kai Habel, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Nina Hechenblaikner, Wanda Jarząbek, Jonas Kaiser, Miroslav Kunštát, Roland Ernst Laimer, Matthias Peter, Willi Schrenk, and Hermann Wentker.