A State of Peace in Europe

"Hakkarainen's monograph derives from a prize-winning dissertation, and the accolades are well deserved. The research base is admirably wide-ranging...[This is] an excellent study that constitutes essential reading for historians of detente in Europe...One can only hope that other researchers will write as fluidly and skillfully about those conferences-or about that other grindingly slow multilateral framework of the 1970s and 1980s: the talks on MBFR (Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions). Hakkarainen's book provides a worthy model." * German Studies Review "Petri Hakkarainen deserves commendation for his thorough and well-researched account of West German government strategies and actions with regard to the CSCE between 1966 and 1975. This is true in particular for his refusal to write deterministic history from hindsight...This book is a very solid, reliable, and convincing piece of history on policy deliberations and diplomatic negotiations conducted by the West German government." * American Historical Review "Hakkarainen's study makes an important historiographical contribution alongside its empirical one. The author admonishes his readers: the CSCE together with the new Ostpolitik, which in his account are intimately linked, would indeed prove instrumental in ending the Cold War and bringing about German reunification, but this does not at all justify reading history backwards from the watershed years of 1989-91...For Hakkarainen, the infiltration of triumphalist narratives into histories of the CSCE, as well as of detente more broadly, must therefore be resolutely opposed and the history of the Cold War ought to be written 'without prejudices based in the events of 1989-90'." * German History "West-Germany and the CSCE, 1966-1975is concisely written and develops our understanding of the pre-history of the CSCE, the FRG's role vis-a-vis its Western allies and the complex linkages between its Ostpolitik and its interests in the CSCE." * Journal of Contemporary History "In a balanced way the author blends German views with those from Britain, France, and the United States, using these countries' official documents as well. His book represents a very serious piece of scholarship and is interesting to read. It excels with a novel hypothesis, a very careful use of varied archival sources, and an ability not to lose his argument in the wealth of material." * Helga Haftendorn, Free University, Berlin "I don't know of any other book that deals so thoroughly with German CSCE policy in the years described here...The author has done a vast amount of research, using documents from different archives and different countries...While he is of course not the first scholar to write about the origins of the CSCE, the author does contribute new elements and interpretations to the topic." * Benedikt Schoenborn, University of Tampere, Centre for Advanced Study

Petri Hakkarainen received his doctorate in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 2008. In 2009 he was awarded the Willy Brandt Prize for the 'advancement of outstanding young scholars' by the Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation. He joined the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) in 2006 and worked at the Finnish Embassy in Berlin until the summer of 2012. He then spent over a year as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, focusing on the European and international dimensions of the German energy transition. Since September 2013 he has been Deputy Director for Policy Planning and Research at the Finnish MFA in Helsinki.

List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction: Era of Negotiations European Detente The CSCE German Foreign Policy On Structure and Sources Chapter 2. 1966-69: Incubation of Strategies The Early Years and the Eastern 'Propaganda Circus' The Budapest Appeal: 'We Could Have Drafted it Ourselves' Consultations Abroad, Electioneering at Home Nobody Expects the Finnish Initiative Promises of East-West Cooperation or an Instrument of Deutschlandpolitik? Chancellery versus Auswartiges Amt Emphasis on Linkage: Bahr's Foreign Policy Plans on the Eve of the Election Bonn and the Security Conference during the Interregnum Conclusion Chapter 3. 1969-70: Bilateral Leverages and European Security Western Support for the Linkage with Deutschlandpolitik Horse-Trading in Moscow Rethinking the Linkage Strategy Berlin Surpasses Other Preconditions Discovering the Potential of the CSCE Conference on Security or Conference on Cooperation? Conclusion Chapter 4. 1970-71: Transition to Western Multilateralism Following the French Lead on Berlin Linkage Defending the Berlin Precondition in Lisbon Divergent Interpretations of the 'Successful Conclusion' Nothing Quiet on the Western Front Broadening the German Horizon in the NATO Framework From America's Advocate to the Main Proponent of EPC Conclusion Chapter 5. 1971-72: Towards a European Peace Order? The Decline of the Linkage between the CSCE and Deutschlandpolitik Hesitating on the Berlin Precondition Blackmailing the Finns? An Inner-German Shotgun Wedding Europeanisation of Ostpolitik In Defence of the Eastern Treaties and Bonn's Sovereignty A New Flow of German Activity Peaceful Change, Self-Determination of Peoples and Military Security Freer Movement: Change through Rapprochement? Berlin as a CSCE Location? Avoiding Bilateralism Conclusion Chapter 6. 1972-75: Deutschlandpolitik at the Conference Alphabet Diplomacy in Dipoli Peaceful Change, Act 1: Defending the Moscow Treaty Peaceful Change, Act 2: Enter Genscher Peaceful Change, Act 3: Commas for the National Interest Basket III: Human Contacts Follow-up and Berlin Conclusion Chapter 7. Conclusion: Evolution instead of Revolution Sources and Bibliography Index