{"product_id":"west-german-ostpolitik-the-soviet-union-and-east-west-detente-in-europe","title":"West German Ostpolitik, the Soviet Union, and East-West Détente in Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWest German Ostpolitik, the Soviet Union, and East-West Détente in Europe \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how the détente policy changed the character of the Cold War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Moscow files, now opened for the first time show 50 years later, reveal new insights and implications into the creation and implementation of the détente policy. This collection offers a detailed examination of European security from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s with focus on five areas: 1) the first stirrings of détente in West German-Soviet relations, the framework conditions of domestic and foreign policy on the two sides and the extent to which interests ultimately enshrined in treaties were contradictory and\/or compatible; 2) the preconditions of détente in the first half of the Brezhnev era; 3) economic interests as a driving force of political change; 4) the consequences of the Treaty of Moscow for East European states; and 5) the consequences of the Transatlantic partnership. The contributors highlight the complexity of domestic and international considerations that produced Ostpolitik and the subsequent emergence of long-term East-West détente in Europe, while offering the argument that Eastern policies and détente only came to fruition after the climax of the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55503572173144,"sku":"9798765167670","price":107.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9798765167670.jpg?v=1777986034","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/west-german-ostpolitik-the-soviet-union-and-east-west-detente-in-europe","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}