Rethinking Cooperation in Cold War Europe

Ulf Schmidt is Senior Professor of Modern History at University of Hamburg, Germany. He is the author of Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments (2015), Karl Brandt - The Nazi Doctor (Bloomsbury, 2007) and Justice at Nuremberg (2004).Will Studdert is Research Fellow at University of Hamburg, Germany. He is the author of The Jazz War: Radio, Nazism and the Struggle for the Airwaves in World War II (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).

• Introduction: Difficult Friendships: Cooperating across the ‘Nylon Curtain’ Thomas Wegener Friis (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)Part 1 - Cooperation and Collaboration1. The Cultural and Academic Relations between Romania, West-Germany and East-Germany, 1965-1975 Irinia Matei (University of Bucharest, Romania)2. The United States and Cross-European Collaboration in the World Federation of Neurology Kate Docking (University of Hamburg, Germany)3. ‘Nylon Curtain’ by the Activities of Protection Professionals Melinda Harlov-Csortán (Apor Vilmos Catholic College, Hungary)4. A Tuberculosis-Free Future: Vordingborg Sanatoriumand the Children of Europe James Farley (University of Hamburg, Germany)5. The Austrian Cultural Magazine ‘Pannonia’: East-West-Cooperation and Debates on Central Europe, 1973-1990 Oliver Sterchi (University of Basel, Switzerland)Part 2 - Confluence and Influence6. ‘Keeping the pot simmering’: Great Britain’s Policy towards Eastern Europe, 1947-1959 Vasil Paraskevov (Konstantin Preslavsky University, Bulgaria)7. Through the ‘Nylon Curtain’: The Phenomenon of Methodological Similarities between Polish Historians and French Milieu of Annales (1945-1989) Patryk Pleskot (Rzeszów University, Poland)8. Drafting Post-War Deontology Across the Ideological Divide: The Polish Medical Ethicist TadeuszKielanowski, 1945-1967 Ulf Schmidt (University of Hamburg, Germany)9. The Life and Times of Georgi Lozanov’s Suggestopedia: Unconventional Science across the Berlin Wall Veronika Stoyanova (University of Kent, UK)10. The Nootropic Concept: Psychopharmaceutical Enhancement Trials Across the ‘Nylon Curtain’ David Peace (University of Hamburg, Germany)Part 3 - Peace and Solidarity11. ‘Mutual Longing for Peace’: How American Women Peace Activists Transgressed Cold War Borders, 1961-1990 Lara Track (University of Heidelberg, Germany)12. The Road to the West: The First international Contacts of Ukrainian Environmental Activists during the Late Perestroika Period Tetiana Perga (National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine)13. Prestige, Prizes, and Paranoia: East German and British Encounters with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Will Studdert (University of Hamburg, Germany)14. Toward a Peaceful, Democratic and Reunified Europe: The Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly and the Creation of Post-Cold War Europe Stephanie Freeman (Mississippi State University, USA)Epilogue Ulf Schmidt and Will Studdert (both University of Hamburg, Germany)BibliographyIndex