Defrosting the Cold War and Beyond

An Introduction to the Helsinki Process, 1954-2022
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-70403-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern History

This volume tells the story of the Helsinki Process from the immediate post-war period through the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975 to the collapse of the Soviet empire and up to the present day. Treating it as a single narrative in the search for a just and stable order in Europe adds significantly to the copious but mostly narrowly focused academic literature on the subject.

Divided into 26 chapters, it can also serve as a handy reference book for different phases of the story. Chapter 22 examines the continuing debate over whether the West is responsible for the breakdown of relations with Russia and why the Helsinki Process failed to avert it. Chapter 26 asks whether the remarkable multilateral diplomacy that produced the Final Act could be replicated in other troubled areas today. It then offers 12 lessons that may be drawn from that experience.

Defrosting the Cold War and Beyond: An Introduction to the Helsinki Process, 1954–2022 will help students and others understand the long arc of the Helsinki process, its place in European history and its continuing relevance today. Drawing on the first-hand experience of the author and other sources, the book corrects common errors and identifies some of the key people involved.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davy, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction What is the Helsinki Process ?

Section I Origins

Chapter 1 Where did it come from?

Chapter 2 Who started it?

Chapter 3 What were they afraid of?

Section II Moving Forward

Chapter 4 Khrushchev, the accidental helper

Chapter 5 Brezhnev, the deluded visionary

Chapter 6 1966: Dialogue of the deaf

Chapter 7 1967: Détente, but what was it?

Chapter 8 1968: Dubcek, martyred by the “Brezhnev doctrine”

Chapter 9 1969–74: Willy Brandt, the realistic idealist

Chapter 10 1969: Now they are talking

Section III Heading for the Summit

Chapter 11 Dipoli 1972–3: Together at last

Chapter 12 1973: Setting up base camp in Geneva

Chapter 13 1973–5: The long climb to the summit

Part I Slogging up the lower slopes

Part II The final stretch

Chapter 14 1975: Views from the summit

Chapter 15 Coming down to earth

Section IV Follow-up

Chapter 16 Belgrade 1977–8: Human rights and wrongs

Chapter 17 Madrid 1980–83: The stress test

Chapter 18 1985–6: Four meetings and the first breakthrough

Chapter 19 Vienna 1986–9: The ice cracks

Chapter 20 Paris 1990: Euphoria

Chapter 21 Helsinki II 1992: Gloom

Section V Where to now?

Chapter 22 Was an opportunity missed ?

Chapter 23 The OSCE: more members, same tasks, rough road

Chapter 24 ODIHR: Human Rights and dodgy elections

Chapter 25 Conclusions, achievements, legacy

Chapter 26 Can Helsinki be a model for other trouble spots?

Appendix I Guide to the Final Act

Appendix II Key points of the Vienna Document

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Davy graduated in Modern History from Magdalen College, Oxford University. After teaching in Italy and training in Edinburgh, he worked for nearly 30 years on The Times (London) as foreign correspondent in Germany, Washington and Eastern Europe, and as Chief Foreign Leader Writer specialising in East–West relations. He covered much of the Prague Spring of 1968 and the long negotiations that produced the Helsinki Final Act of 1975. Later he was a leader writer for The Independent, a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC, an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and a Senior Member of St Antony’s College, Oxford University.