Reconciliation Road

Benedikt Schoenborn is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Tampere in Finland. He has won the French Duroselle Prize and the Swiss AAI Prize for his book La mesentente apprivoisee: de Gaulle et les Allemands, 1963-1969 (Paris 2007), and he holds doctorates from the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne.

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Roads to ReconciliationChapter 2. The First Step: Coexistence (1955-1966)Chapter 3. Projecting East-West Reconciliation (1966-1969)Chapter 4. Summit Meetings as Icebreakers (1969-1971)Chapter 5. Developing East-West Frameworks (1971-1974)Chapter 6. Maintaining East-West Contacts (1974-1992)ConclusionBibliographyIndex

"This is a valuable addition to the literature on Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik. Schoenborn demonstrates that the spectre of the Nazi past was always present, and that reconciliation was a much more ambitious aim than detente." Gottfried Niedhart, University of Mannheim