Visions of the end of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Frédéric Bozo [and others].
• Other Names: Bozo, Frédéric
• Contents: Introduction; Section I -- Crystallizing the Cold War; Chapter 1 -- George Kennan's Course, 1947-1949: A Gaullist before de Gaulle; Chapter 2 -- The Bilderberg Group and the End of the Cold War: The Disengagement Debates of the 1950s; Section II -- Stalin's Death and After: A Missed Opportunity?; Chapter 3 -- Moscow's Campaign against the Cold War, 1948-1955; Chapter 4 -- Stalin's Death and Anglo-American Visions of Ending the Cold War, 1953; Chapter 5 -- Soviet Intellectuals after Stalin's Death and Their Visions of the Cold War's End; Section III -- Alternative Visions of the 1960s. Chapter 6 -- Towards a New Concert of Europe: De Gaulle's Vision of a Post-Cold War EuropeChapter 7 -- Franz Josef Strauß and the End of the Cold War; Section IV -- A Helsinki Vision?; Chapter 8 -- A Very British Vision of Détente: The United Kingdom's Foreign Policy during the Helsinki Process, 1969-1975; Chapter 9 -- The EC Nine's Vision and Attempts at Ending the Cold War; Section V -- Visions and Dissent in the 1970s; Chapter 10 -- 'The Transformation of the Other Side': Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik and the Liberal Peace Concept. Chapter 11 -- Neither in One Bloc, Nor in the Other: Berlinguer's Vision of the End of the Cold WarChapter 12 -- Overcoming Bloc Division from Below: Jirí Hájek and the CSCE Appeal of Charter 77; Section VI -- Vision or Status Quo in the 1970s; Chapter 13 -- Henry Kissinger: Vision or Status Quo?; Chapter 14 -- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and His Vision of the End of the Cold War; Section VII -- Evolutionary Visions and Unexpected Results in the 1980s; Chapter 15 -- Ending the Cold War, Unintentionally. Chapter 16 -- Common Security as a Way to Overcome the (Second) Cold War? Willy Brandt's Strategy for Peace in the 1980sChapter 17 -- Which Socialism after the Cold War? Gorbachev's Vision and Its Impact on the French Left; Chapter 18 -- Thatcher's Double-track Road to the End of the Cold War: The Irreconcilability of Liberalization and Preservation; Chapter 19 -- Mitterrand's Vision and the End of the Cold War; Chapter 20 -- Visions of Ending the Cold War: Triumphalism and U.S. Soviet Policy in the 1980s. Chapter 21 -- The Power of Imagination: How Reagan's SDI Inadvertently Contributed to the End of the Cold WarBibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (366 pages)
• Subjects: 909.82/5; Cold War; World politics -- 1945-1989; Balance of power; Cold War -- Historiography; Cold War -- Influence; Europe -- History -- 1945; International relations; History; HISTORY -- Europe -- Western; HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century; Balance of power; World politics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857453709
• Related ISBNs: 085745370X; 1280496762; 9781280496769
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.