Freedom and Security: The CSCE and the End of the Cold War (1986–1989) / edited by Nina Hechenblaikner and Andrea Brait.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brait, Andrea, editor.

Hechenblaikner, Nina, editor.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

New Perspectives on the Cold War ; 12.

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025

New Perspectives on the Cold War ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) served as an important negotiating forum beyond the confines of the Cold War. This volume focuses on the Vienna Follow-up Meeting (1986–1989), covering prominent issues, such as military security and human rights, as well as less explored topics, including culture and the environment. The book contextualises the Meeting within the CSCE process and global political events, presenting diverse perspectives, retrospectives, and outlooks. It offers insights into the latest scholarship on this important but largely under-researched diplomatic negotiation. Many contributions utilise previously unpublished and unresearched files, along with diplomats' memoirs, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and media reports. Contributors are: Andrea Brait, Michael Gehler, Maximilian Graf, Anna Graf-Steiner, Simon Graham, Kai Habel, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Nina Hechenblaikner, Wanda Jarząbek, Jonas Kaiser, Miroslav Kunštát, Roland Ernst Laimer, Matthias Peter, Willi Schrenk, and Hermann Wentker.

Contents:

List of Tables and Figures

Notes on Contributors

The CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Vienna (1986–1989)

An Introduction

Nina Hechenblaikner and Andrea Brait

Moscow and Vienna on the Road to Helsinki

Anna Graf-Steiner

From Helsinki to Vienna

The CSCE Process in the Second Cold War

Hermann Wentker

Austria’s “Mr. CSCE” Helmut Liedermann

A Biographical Approach to the Helsinki Process

Maximilian Graf

The Concluding Document of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting, 15 January 1989

An Analysis of Its Drafting and an Interpretation in Comparison with Other Declarations

Michael Gehler

Negotiations on Cultural Cooperation at the Vienna Follow-up Meeting from the Perspective of the Austrian Foreign Ministry

Andrea Brait

The “neglected step-child” of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting?

Basket II from the Perspective of the Austrian Foreign Ministry

Roland Ernst Laimer

Front Page News or Side Note?

The Human Dimension of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Austrian and West German Newspapers

Nina Hechenblaikner

Questions of Security

The Role of the Vienna Follow-up Meeting on the Road from the CDE to the CFE Treaty

Jonas Kaiser

Shifting Agendas?

The United States, the Soviet Union and the Vienna CSCE, 1986–1989

Jussi M. Hanhimäki

European Political Cooperation at the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting (1986–1989)

Matthias Peter

Divergent Neutral Strategies

The N+N and the Issue of Disarmament

Kai Habel

East German Intelligence Perspectives on the CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Vienna

Simon Graham

A German-German Conflict in a Multilateral Framework

The Debate on Compulsory Currency Exchange at the Vienna Follow-up Meeting

Willi Schrenk

Human Rights, the Vienna Follow-up Meeting and Political Transformation in the Eastern Bloc

The Case of Poland

Wanda Jarząbek

The Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting and Czechoslovakia

Miroslav Kunštát

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-73697-2

9789004736979

OCLC:

1559218574

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004736979 DOI