{"product_id":"west-german-ostpolitik-the-soviet-union-and-east-west-dzstente-in-europe-9798765167670","title":"West German Ostpolitik, the Soviet Union, and East-West Détente in Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWest German Ostpolitik, the Soviet Union, and East-West Détente in Europe \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how the détente policy changed the character of the Cold War.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Moscow files, now opened for the first time show 50 years later, reveal new insights and implications into the creation and implementation of the détente policy. This collection offers a detailed examination of European security from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s with focus on five areas: 1) the first stirrings of détente in West German-Soviet relations, the framework conditions of domestic and foreign policy on the two sides and the extent to which interests ultimately enshrined in treaties were contradictory and\/or compatible; 2) the preconditions of détente in the first half of the Brezhnev era; 3) economic interests as a driving force of political change; 4) the consequences of the Treaty of Moscow for East European states; and 5) the consequences of the Transatlantic partnership. The contributors highlight the complexity of domestic and international considerations that produced Ostpolitik and the subsequent emergence of long-term East-West détente in Europe, while offering the argument that Eastern policies and détente only came to fruition after the climax of the Cold War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Borchard\u003c\/b\u003e is Head of the Department of Scientific Services and Archive for Christian Democratic Politics at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStefan Karner\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Institute for Economic, Social and Business History at the University of Graz. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHanns Jürgen Küsters\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of political science and contemporary history at the University of Bonn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Ruggenthaler\u003c\/b\u003e is Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52058000752914,"sku":"9798765167670","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9b3f0d4e-d249-4989-b9d7-a2c7dfc86f35.jpg?v=1772019649","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/west-german-ostpolitik-the-soviet-union-and-east-west-dzstente-in-europe-9798765167670","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}