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Annotation An assessment of East-West European detente which examines the different interests involved. It looks particularly closely at the Conference on Security and Cooperation, which produced the Helsinki Final Act and a series of follow-up measures. Publisher Description East-West detente was hotly debated during its heyday in the 1970s. It was regarded by critics as a form of appeasement which, they claimed, strengthened communism while weakening the West. Its supporters saw it variously as a means of reducing the danger of war, subverting communism and, in Europe, bridging the division of the continent. This book attempts a balanced assessment, looking back on the reality of detente and the different interests involved through the eyes of expert contributors from Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Hungary and Austria. It takes a particularly close look at the Conference on Security and Cooperation (CSCE), which produced the Helsinki Final Act and a series of follow-up measures that continue to evolve to the present day. It also argues that in negotiating the text of the Final Act, the West won a victory that was insufficiently recognized at the time. |
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