TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hakkarainen,Petri
TI  - A state of peace in Europe: West Germany and the CSCE, 1966-1975 
T2  - Studies in contemporary European history
SN  - 9780857452948
AV  - JZ1592 .H35 2011eb
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Konferenz über Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa
KW  - gnd
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
KW  - (1972
KW  - Helsinki, Finland)
KW  - fast
KW  - European cooperation
KW  - Detente
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - International
KW  - International Relations
KW  - General
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Modern
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Europe
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Germany (West)
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Bundesrepublik
KW  - Deutschland (BRD)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-273) and index; Introduction : era of negotiations -- 1966-69 : incubation of strategies -- 1969-70 : bilateral leverages and European security -- 1970-71 : transition to western multilateralism -- 1971-72 : towards a European peace order? -- 1972-75 : Deutschlandpolitik at the conference -- Conclusion : evolution instead of revolution
N2  - 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 study is a substantial contribution to scholarly discussions on the history of detente, 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 detente. 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
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qd741
ER  -