Ostpolitik, 1969-1974

Carole Fink, Distinguished Humanities Professor in History at The Ohio State University, and a specialist in European International History, is the author of three monographs, Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 (2004, paperback ed. 2006) and The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-1922 (1984, new paperback edition 1993), both of which were awarded the George Louis Beer prize of the American Historical Association, and Marc Bloch: A Life in History (1989), which has been translated into five languages. She has edited six volumes, including 1956: New Interpretations (2006), Human Rights in Europe since 1945 (2003), and 1968: The World Transformed (1998) and has written some fifty articles and chapters on contemporary European history. In 2007 she received the Distinguished Scholar award from The Ohio State University. Bernd Schaefer is a Senior Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) and specializes in international impacts of East Asian communism. He has worked extensively in the field of GDR history and its post-communist appraisal. Between 2001 and 2008 he has been a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and the Nobel Institute in Oslo. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Halle in Germany (1998) and a master of public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1991), where he was a John J. McCloy Scholar. His publications include North Korean 'Adventurism' and China's Long Shadow, 1966-1972 (2005) and American Detente and German Ostpolitik, 1969-1972 (2004). His book Staat und katholische Kirche in der DDR, 1945-1989 (2nd edition 1999) is currently translated into English.

• Part I. Adversaries and Allies: 1. Dealing with Bonn: Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet response to West German Ostpolitik Andrey Edemskiy; 2. Ostpolitik and Poland Krzysztof Ruchniewicz; 3. The difficult path to the establishment of relations between Czechoslovakia and West Germany Oldrich Tuma; 4. To grin and bear it: the Nixon administration and Ostpolitik Holger Klitzing; 5. Chancellor Brandt's Ostpolitik, France, and the Soviet Union Marie-Pierre Rey; Part II. Global Responses: 6. Ostpolitik, 'Fernostpolitik', and Sino-Soviet rivalry: China and the two Germanys Bernd Schaefer; 7. West German Ostpolitik and Korean South–North relations Meung-Hoan Noh; 8. India and Ostpolitik Amit Das Gupta; 9. Ostpolitik and West German–Israeli relations Carole Fink; 10. Ostpolitik and the relations between West Germany and South Africa Tilman Dedering; 11. 'You have the political prestige and we the material opportunity': Tito and Brandt and Toto between Ostpolitik and non-alignment Milan Kosanovic; 12. Abstinence and Ostpolitik: Brandt's government and the nuclear question William Glenn Gray; 13. Conclusion Bernd Schaefer and Carole Fink.

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