Overcoming the Cold War
| Titel: | Overcoming the Cold War : a history of détente, 1950 - 1991 / Wilfried Loth |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | Houndmills, Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave, 2002 |
| Umfang: | X, 255 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Cold War history |
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| ISBN: | 0333971116 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Cover |
X
- General Editor's Foreword
- p. vii
- List of Abbreviations
- p. ix
- Helsinki, 1 August 1975
- p. 1
- 1
- Between Neutralization and Bloc Formation
- p. 11
- Stalin's note offensive
- p. 12
- Beria and Churchill in the thaw
- p. 18
- Step-by-step failure
- p. 24
- 2
- Deescalation of the Cold War
- p. 33
- The spirit of Geneva
- p. 34
- Disarmament and reunification
- p. 38
- The Berlin ultimatum
- p. 47
- From Camp David to Paris
- p. 52
- 3
- Khrushchev and Kennedy
- p. 57
- The path to 13 August
- p. 58
- Fragmentary dialog
- p. 63
- The Cuban adventure
- p. 67
- Hotline and test ban agreement
- p. 76
- 4
- Visions Along the Way
- p. 80
- From Khrushchev to Brezhnev
- p. 80
- Vietnam war and arms race
- p. 85
- De Gaulle and the German question
- p. 89
- The Prague Spring and the Brezhnev Doctrine
- p. 95
- 5
- The Time of the Treaties
- p. 102
- Brandt's path to Moscow
- p. 102
- Berlin settlement and the SALT Treaty
- p. 110
- Detente in action
- p. 116
- First setbacks
- p. 122
- 6
- The Decline of Detente
- p. 128
- Jackson, Helsinki, and Angola
- p. 128
- From Ford to Carter
- p. 133
- The Vienna summit
- p. 139
- Detente in Europe
- p. 145
- The decision for Nachrustung
- p. 150
- 7
- Dark Times
- p. 157
- Afghanistan
- p. 157
- Carter's course change
- p. 160
- Reagan and the peace movement
- p. 165
- German-German dialog and the Polish crisis
- p. 172
- The end of negotiations
- p. 179
- 8
- The End of the East-West Conflict
- p. 184
- Difficult start
- p. 184
- Gorbachev's offensive
- p. 188
- Cooperation and perestroika
- p. 197
- The dissolution of the Soviet bloc
- p. 204
- Peace settlements
- p. 210
- Balance: Fear and the Ways of Freedom
- p. 217
- Notes
- p. 222
- Bibliography
- p. 241
- Index
- p. 250
