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, 19542022 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.
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| Preface |
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| Introduction: What is the Helsinki process? |
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1 Where did it come from? |
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3 What were they afraid of? |
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4 Khrushchev, the accidental helper |
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5 Brezhnev, the deluded visionary |
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6 1966: Dialogue of the deaf |
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7 1967: Detente, but what was it? |
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8 1968: Dubcek, martyred by the "Brezhnev Doctrine" |
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9 1969--74: Willy Brandt, the realistic idealist |
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10 1969: Now they are talking |
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PART III Heading for the summit |
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11 Dipoli 1972--3: Together at last |
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12 1973: Setting up base camp in Geneva |
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13 Geneva 1973--5: The long climb to the summit |
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14 1975: Views from the summit |
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16 Belgrade 1977--8: Human rights and wrongs |
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17 Madrid 1980--83: The stress test |
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18 1985--6: Four meetings and the first breakthrough |
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19 Vienna 1986--9: The ice cracks |
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21 Helsinki II 1992: Gloom |
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22 Was an opportunity missed? |
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23 The OSCE: more members, same tasks, rough road |
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24 ODIHR: Human rights and dodgy elections |
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25 Conclusions, achievements, legacy |
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26 Can Helsinki be a model for other trouble spots? |
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| Appendix A A guide to the Helsinki Final Act |
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| Appendix B The Vienna concluding document, 1989 |
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| Appendix C The Brezhnev doctrine |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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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 EastWest 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 Antonys College, Oxford University.
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