Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990

Frederic Bozo is Professor of History and International Relations in the Department of European Studies at the Sorbonne (University of Paris III). His publications include Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification (2009) and Two Strategies for Europe: De Gaulle, the United States and the Atlantic Alliance (2001). Marie-Pierre Rey is Professor of Russian and Soviet History and Director of the Centre of Slavic Studies at the Sorbonne (University of Paris I). Her publications include Alexandre Ier, le tsar qui vainquit Napoleon (2009) and Europe and the End of the Cold War: A Reappraisal (ed., 2008). Piers Ludlow is a Reader in the Department of International History of the London School of Economics. He recently published The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s: Negotiating the Gaullist Challenge (2006). Bernd Rother is a Historian at the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation in Berlin. He is editor of Willy Brandt: Uber Europa hinaus. Dritte Welt und Sozialistische Internationale(2006) and Willy Brandt: Gemeinsame Sicherheit. Internationale Beziehungen und deutsche Frage 1982-1992 (2009).

"This is an excellent collection of articles on an extremely interesting subject. The multinational and multi-archival nature of the selections is very impressive, and it attests to the health and vitality of international relations research in today's academy. This is the type of book that should be examined by both policymakers and scholars, since it raises so many good and provocative questions about one of the most important events of our time, namely the end of the Cold War." * Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University "This is an outstanding, well integrated volume that is not only excellent as a history of the Cold War, but focuses on an issue hitherto unexplored in the discussions on the Cold War. [It] is a very good read by some outstanding scholars." * Michael Cox, London School of Economics

• PART I: CRYSTALLIZING THE COLD WAR Chapter 1. George Kennan's Course, 1947-49: A Gaullist before de Gaulle John L. Harper Chapter 2. The Bilderberg Group and the end of the Cold War: The Disengagement Debates of the 1950s Thomas W. Gijswijt PART II: STALIN'S DEATH AND AFTER: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY? Chapter 3. Moscow's Campaign Against the Cold War, 1945-1955 Geoffrey Roberts Chapter 4. Stalin's Death and Anglo-American Visions of Ending the Cold War, 1953 Jaclyn Stanke Chapter 5. Soviet Intellectuals after Stalin's Death and Their Visions of the Cold War's End Vladislav Zubok PART III: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF THE 1960S Chapter 6. Towards a New Concert of Europe: De Gaulle's Vision of a Post-Cold War Europe Garret Martin Chapter 7. Franz Josef StauA and the End of the Cold War Ronald J. Granieri PART IV: A HELSINKI VISION? Chapter 8. A Very British Vision of Detente: The United Kingdom's Foreign Policy During the Helsinki Process, 1969-1975 Martin D. Brown Chapter 9. The EC Nine's Vision and Attempts At Ending the Cold War Angela Romano PART V: VISIONS AND DISSENT IN THE 1970S Chapter 10. 'The Transformation of the Other Side': Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik and the Liberal Peace Concept Gottfried Niedhart Chapter 11. Neither in One Bloc, Nor in the Other: Berlinguer's Vision of the End of the Cold War Laura Fasanaro Chapter 12. Overcoming Bloc Division from Below: Jiri Hajek and the CSCE Appeal of Charter 77 Christian Domnitz PART VI: VISION OR STATUS QUO IN THE 1970S Chapter 13. Henry Kissinger: Vision or Status Quo? Jussi Hanhimaki Chapter 14. Valery Giscard d'Estaing and his Vision of the End of the Cold War Georges-Henri Soutou PART VII: EVOLUTIONARY VISIONS AND UNEXPECTED RESULTS IN THE 1980S Chapter 15. Ending the Cold War, Unintentionally Gregory F. Domber Chapter 16. Common Security as a Way to Overcome the (Second) Cold War? Willy Brandt's Strategy for Peace in the 1980s Bernd Rother Chapter 17. Which Socialism after the Cold War? Gorbachev's Vision and its Impact on the French Left Marie-Pierre Rey Chapter 18. Thatcher's Double Track Road to the End of the Cold War: The Irreconcilability of Liberalisation and Preservation Ilaria Poggiolini Chapter 19. Mitterand's Vision and the End of the Cold War Frederic Bozo Chapter 20. Visions of Ending the Cold War: Triumphalism and US Soviet Policy in the 1980s Beth A. Fischer Chapter 21. The Power of Imagination: How Reagan's SDI Inadvertently Contributed to the End of the Cold War Marilena Gala Bibliography