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Online-Ressource (366 p)
ISBN:
9781782383864
Serie:
Contemporary European History v.11
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Exploring the visions of the end of the Cold War that have been put forth since its inception until its actual ending, this volume brings to the fore the reflections, programmes, and strategies that were intended to call into question the bipolar system and replace it with alternative approaches or concepts. These visions were associated not only with prominent individuals, organized groups and civil societies, but were also connected to specific historical processes or events. They ranged from actual, thoroughly conceived programmes, to more blurred, utopian aspirations - or simply the belie
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Chapter 21 - The Power of Imagination: How Reagan's SDI Inadvertently Contributed to the End of the Cold WarBibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Index
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ISBN 9780857453709
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781782383864
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Print version Visions Of The End Of The Cold War In Europe, 1945-1990
Sprache:
Englisch
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