Détente in Cold War Europe

Antonio Varsori is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Padua, where he is Head of the Department of International Studies. He is Deputy-Chairman of the Liaison Committee of the Historians of Contemporary Europe at the European Commission and on the editorial board of several European journals. Elena Calandri is Associate Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Padua. Daniele Caviglia is Associate Professor of the History of International Relations at the LUSPIO Institute in Rome.

• Introduction 1Elena Calandri, Daniele Caviglia, Antonio VarsoriPart 1The Mediterranean(s) in the Global Balance 131 Fault Lines in Post-War Mediterranean and the ‘Birth ofSouthern Europe’, 1945–1979: An Overview 15Effie G.H. Pedaliu2 The United States, the EE C and the Mediterranean:Rivalry or Complementarity? 33Elena Calandri3 R e-Discovering the Mediterranean: First Tests ofCoordination among the Nine 49Guia Migani4 Sea and Détente in Helsinki: The Mediterranean Stakeof the CSCE, 1972–1975 61Nicolas Badalassi5 Regional Détente or a New International Order?The Italian Communist Party, Non-Aligned Leadersand the Mediterranean, 1964–1980 75Marco Galeazzi6 A Window of Opportunity? Eurocommunism(s) andDétente 89Valentine LomelliniPart 2War and Diplomacy in the Middle East 1037 The American–Israeli ‘Special Relationship’ in theNixon–Kissinger Years 105Antonio Donno8 ‘The Gods of War were Inspecting their Armaments’:The United States and the 1970 Jordan Crisis 117Daniele De Luca9 The Middle Eastern Test of Détente: The USSR DirectRole in the Yom Kippur War, 1973 125Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez10 Conflict and Détente in the Eastern Mediterranean:From the Yom Kippur War to the Cyprus Crisis,October 1973–August 1974 141John Sakkas11 The Post-Cold War Legacies of US Realism: The 1974Cyprus Crisis in Perspective 155Jan Asmussen12 The Fact-finding Missions of the Socialist Internationalin the Middle East, 1974–1976 171Oliver RathkolbPart 3Regional Actors and Dynamics from Détente to theSecond Cold War 19313 France, the European Community and the Maghreb,1963–1976: From Inertia to Key Player 195Houda Ben Hamouda14 T urkish Anti-Westernism: Restaging the Euro-Mediterranean World in the Era of Détente 207Mehmet Dosemeci15 The Distant Neighbours: The Cooperation Agreementsbetween the EE C and the Mashreq, 1977 221Massimiliano Trentin16 Gaddafi’s Libya: From Uncertain Alignment with theUSSR to Support for Arab Terrorist Movements in theMediterranean, 1974–1986 233Massimiliano CriccoNotes 241Index 289