Nicolas Badalassi is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of South Brittany. He is the author of En finir avec la guerre froide: La France, l'Europe et le processus d'Helsinki, 1965-1975 (2014).

"This excellent volume stands at the forefront of scholarship in the field and will certainly make an important contribution to our understanding of the complex developments that led to the end of the Cold War." - Aryo Makko, Stockholm University and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study"The essays in this volume illuminate just what the Helsinki process entailed and help explain the multidimensional ways in which it facilitated the end of the Cold War--everything from building bridges between groups to keeping dialogue going when the Cold War refroze in the early 1980s and connecting lower-level politics to high politics." - Jaclyn Stanke, Campbell University"Bold in ambition and scope, this collection highlights transnational history at its finest. It covers an impressive amount of terrain, allowing for a more layered and nuanced understanding of the CSCE." - Garret Martin, American University

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionNicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. SnyderAbbreviationsChronology of CSCE MeetingsPART I: DIPLOMATS, DIPLOMACIES AND THE MAKING OF THE CSCEChapter 1. The Human Dimension of the CSCE, 1975-1990Andrei ZagorskiChapter 2. Executors or Creative Deal-Makers?: The Role of the Diplomats in the Making of the Helsinki CSCEMartin D. Brown and Angela RomanoChapter 3. From Talleyrand to Sakharov: French Diplomacy in Search of a 'Helsinki Effect'Nicolas BadalassiChapter 4. 'Human Rights, Peace and Security are Inseparable';: Max Kampelman and the Helsinki ProcessStephan KieningerPART II: THE TRANSNATIONAL PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ROLE OF DISSIDENCEChapter 5. The Committee of Concerned Scientists and the Helsinki Final Act: 'Refuznik' Scientists, Detente and Human RightsElisabetta VezzosiChapter 6. Seeing the Value of the Helsinki Accords: Human Rights, Peace and Transnational Debates about Detente, 1981-1988Christian P. PetersonChapter 7. The Importance of the Helsinki Final Act for the Opposition in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Peace Movements in the 1980sJacek CzaputowiczChapter 8. The Limits of Repression: Soviet-Bloc Security Services vs. Transnational Helsinki Networks, 1976-1986Douglas SelvageChapter 9. Helsinki at Home: NGOs, the Helsinki Final Act and Politics in the United States, 1975-1985Carl Bon TempoPART III: THE POLITICS OF THE CSCE IN EUROPEChapter 10. European Detente and the CSCE: Austria and the Central European Theatre in the 1970s and 1980sMaximilian GrafChapter 11. Saving Detente: The Federal Republic of Germany and the CSCE in the 1980sMatthias PeterChapter 12. Transformation by Linkage?: Arms Control, Human Rights and the Rift between Moscow and East Berlin in the Late 1980sOliver BangeChapter 13. CSCE: Albania the Outsider in European Political LifeHamit KabaConclusionSarah B. Snyder and Nicolas BadalassiIndex