Hakkarainen, Petri,  1976- <br/><br/>
A state of peace in Europe :  West Germany and the CSCE, 1966-1975 / 
Petri Hakkarainen. 
 - New York :  Berghahn Books,  2011. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - Studies in contemporary European history ;  volume 10 .
 - Studies in contemporary European history ;  10. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-273) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780857452948 0857452940 1306547989 9781306547987 9781789201079 1789201071 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Konferenz über Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa<br/>Konferenz über Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Meeting Names: </label><br/>Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe Helsinki, Finland)  (1972 : <br/>Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>European cooperation.<br/>Detente.<br/>Cold War.<br/>Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--International.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--International Relations--General.<br/>HISTORY--Modern--20th Century.<br/>Detente.<br/>Diplomatic relations.<br/>European cooperation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--Foreign relations--Germany (West)<br/>Germany (West)--Foreign relations--Europe.<br/>Europe.<br/>Germany (West)<br/>Deutschland<br/>Deutschland (BRD)
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JZ1592  / .H35 2011eb