Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
Oliver Bange and Poul Villaume

PART I: Long Perspectives On Détente
1 East-West Conflict: Short Cold War and Long Détente
An Essay on Terminology and Periodization
Gottfried Niedhart
2 The Long Détente and the Soviet Bloc, 1953–1983
Csaba Békés

PART II: East-West Trade
1 Soviet Snowdrops in the Ice Age?
The Surprising Attempt of an Early Economic Détente in 1952
Mikhail Lipkin
2 European Long-Term Investments in Détente
The Implications of East-West Economic Cooperation
Werner Lippert

PART III: The Inextractability of External and Domestic Security
1 No End to “Political Ideological Diversion”
The Stasi Perspective as Circumstantial Evidence for a Long Détente
Oliver Bange
2 New Security Concepts and Transnational Party Networks, 1976–1983.
The Socialist International, Scandilux, and the Overcoming of the Crisis of Détente
Rasmus Mariager

PART IV: Détente in Europe: Change in Perceptions
1 Continuity and Transformation
Alternate Visions of Italy’s Three Decades of Détente
Laura Fasanaro
2 Perception of the Other: “Kremlinologists” and “Westerners”
East and West German Analysts and Their Mutual Perceptions, 1977–1985
Sabine Loewe-Hannatzsch

PART V: Détente in Europe: Change in Diplomatic Framings
1 Pathfinders and Perpetuators of Détente
Small States of NATO and the Long Détente: The Case of Denmark, 1969–1989
Poul Villaume
2 Overcoming the Crisis of Détente, 1979−1983
Coordinating Eastern Policies between Paris, Bonn, and London
Christian Wenkel

PART VI: The U.S. Story: from Cooperation to Confrontation and Back
1 Lyndon B. Johnson and the Building of East-West Bridges
Catching Up with Détente in Europe, 1963–1966
Gry Thomasen
2 Between Power Politics and Morality
The United States, the Long Détente, and the Transformation of Europe, 1969–1985
Stephan Kieninger

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Index
About the Editors and Contributors