Freedom and Security

The CSCE and the End of the Cold War (1986-1989)
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73696-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: New Perspectives on the Cold War

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. This 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 Many contributions utilize previously unpublished and unresearched files, along with diplomats' memoirs, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and media reports.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 Jarzabek, Jonas Kaiser, Miroslav Kunštát, Roland Ernst Laimer, Matthias Peter, Willi Schrenk, and Hermann Wentker.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hechenblaikner, Nina

Brait, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Nina Hechenblaikner, MA, studied history in Innsbruck and Prague. She is currently writing her dissertation on the human rights negotiations at the third CSCE Follow-up Meeting and has published articles, including 'Diplomatie und ihre Einflüsse', Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 35.2 (2024).

Andrea Brait, PD MMag. Dr., University for Continuing Education Krems, is the head of studies at the Center for Cultures and Technologies of Collecting. Among other things, she has published on Austria’s cultural diplomacy.