CSCE and the End of the Cold War

Nicolas Badalassi is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut d’Etudes politiques d’Aix-en-Provence (Sciences Po Aix). He is the author of the award-winning En finir avec la guerre froide: La France, l’Europe et le processus d’Helsinki, 1965–1975 (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014). He has also co-edited with H. Ben Hamouda the publication Les pays d’Europe orientale et la Méditerranée, 1967-1989 (Paris: Cahiers Irice, 2013).

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsChronology of CSCE MeetingsIntroductionNicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. SnyderPART 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: ‘Refusenik’ Scientists, Détente and Human RightsElisabetta VezzosiChapter 6. Seeing the Value of the Helsinki Accords: Human Rights, Peace and Transnational Debates about Détente, 1981–1988Christian P. PetersonChapter 7. The Importance of the Helsinki Process 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 J. Bon TempoPART III: THE POLITICS OF THE CSCE IN EUROPEChapter 10. European Détente and the CSCE: Austria and the East-Central European Theatre in the 1970s and 1980sMaximilian GrafChapter 11. Saving Détente: 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 KabaConclusionNicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. SnyderIndex

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