The Vienna Summit and its importance in international history / / edited by Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, and Barbara Stelzl-Marx

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (550 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.73047
• Soggetto topico: Cold War
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations Soviet Union; Soviet Union Foreign relations United States; United States Foreign relations 1961-1963
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BischofGünter <1953-> KarnerStefan <1952-> Stelzl-MarxBarbara
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; I: Introduction and Historical Context; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Summitry in the Twentieth Century; II: Contextualizing the Vienna Summit; UNITED STATES, FRANCE, AND GREAT BRITAIN; Chapter Three: "The First Test of [. . .] Détente Will Be the Berlin Negotiation"; Chapter Four: "Vienna, a City that is Symbolic of the Possibility of Finding Equitable Solutions"; Chapter Five: Great Britain and the Vienna Summit of June 1961; Chapter Six: Paris as Beneficiary of the Unsuccessful Vienna Summit; SOVIET UNION; Chapter Seven: Soviet-American Relations in the Early 1960s ; Chapter Eight: Between Pragmatism and IdeologyASIA AND AFRICA; Chapter Nine: Beijing's Shadow over Vienna; Chapter Ten: Laos and the Vienna Summit; III: The Summit; Chapter Eleven: Two Days of Drama; Chapter Twelve: A Difficult Education; Chapter Thirteen: "Summit Ladies"; Chapter Fourteen: Moral Masculinity; Chapter Fifteen: On the Significance of Austrian Neutrality for Soviet Foreign Policy under Nikita S. Khrushchev; Chapter Sixteen: The Personal Recollections of a Presidential Adviser in Vienna; Chapter Seventeen: The Personal Recollections of Khrushchev's Interpreter in Vienna ; IV: The Berlin CrisisChapter Eighteen: Khrushchev, the Berlin Wall, and the Demand for a Peace Treaty, 1961-1963; Chapter Nineteen: The Vienna Summit and the Construction of the Berlin Wall; Appendices; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3-1; Appendix 3-2; Appendix 3-3; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: <span><span>Based on Russian and US archives and the multinational research efforts of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Study of the Consequences of War in Graz, Austria, in conjunction with the Contemporary History Archives (RGANI) in Moscow and the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich-Berlin, this book represents a definitive study of the bilateral Vienna Summit meeting of Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy. The authors of the various articles are top scholars and, in the case of Ted Sorensen and Viktor Sukhodrev, participants in the summit. This valuable contribution to the
• Titolo autorizzato: The Vienna Summit and its importance in international history
• ISBN: 0-7391-8557-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464492203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Harvard Cold War studies book series.