European American-Relations and the Middle East. From Suez to Iraq |
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Editors: Daniel Möckli and Victor Mauer
Date of Publication: September 2010
Publisher: Routledge
This book examines the evolution of European‐American relations with the Middle East since 1945. Placing the current transatlantic debates on the Middle East into a broader context, this work analyses how, why, and to what
extent European and US roles, interests, threat perceptions, and policy attitudes in the region have changed, relating to both the region as a whole and the two main issues analysed: Gulf Security and the Arab‐Israeli Conflict. The contributors then go on to discuss the implications of these developments for Western policymaking.
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Crisis? What Crisis? NATO, de Gaulle, and the Future of the Alliance, 1963-1966 |
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Author: Anna Locher
Date of publication: March 2010
Publisher:Nomos
Drawing on recently declassified European and North American sources, former PHP team coordinator Dr Anna Locher examines the crisis of the Western alliance which evolved in view of the Gaullist challenge, decreasing East-West tension and increasing attention to outer-European theaters. The study addresses the different alliance policies of selected NATO states and investigates the influence wielded by both small member states and institutional actors.
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European Foreign Policy During the Cold War:
Heath, Brandt, Pompidou and the Dream of Political Unity
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Author: Daniel Möckli
Date of publication: November 2008
Publisher:
I. B. Tauris
Europe’s first efforts at speaking with one voice in world politics in the early 1970s were remarkably successful. The EC countries did well at the CSCE, negotiated with the US on a reorganisation of the West, and became involved in the search for peace in the Middle East. However, European diplomacy declined into crisis in 1974 and subsequently became a low-level phenomenon.
Daniel Möckli's monograph argues that Europe’s rise had to do with several changes in the international system as well as the unusually pro-European policies of British Prime Minister Edward Heath, while its decline was brought about above all by strong US opposition to a distinct European foreign policy.
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NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts |
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Editors: Mary Ann Heiss and S. Victor Papacosma
Date of publication: April 2008
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Series: New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations
Description:
There is no shortage of literature addressing how the two blocs faced off during the decades of the Cold War. However, little has been written about the various intrabloc tensions that plagued both alliances during the Cold War or about how those tensions affected the alliances’ operation. The essays in NATO and the Warsaw Pact seek to address that glaring gap in the historiography by utilizing a wide range of case studies to explore these often-significant tensions, dispelling in the process all thoughts that the alliances always operated smoothly and without internal dissent. The volume, an off-spring of a conference held in 2004, assembles 14 contributions by scholars affiliated with the PHP, including Lawrence Kaplan, Vojtech Mastny, Douglas Selvage, Csaba Békés, Jordan Baev, Bernd Schaefer, Anna Locher and Christian Nuenlist.
Purchase Publication: Kent State University Press
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Read Luke Nichter's review of the volume. |
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Origins of the European Security System |
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Editors: Andreas Wenger, Vojtech Mastny, Christian Nuenlist
Date of publication: April 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Series: Studies in Security and International Relations (Routledge)
Description:
This edited volume explores the significance of the early ‘Helsinki process’ as a means of redefining and broadening the concept of security during the latter half of the Cold War. Using newly declassified documents, the book explores the positions of the two superpowers and the crucial impact of European Community member states, and shows how Eastern and Central European nations did pursue interests of their own. It sheds light on the complementary role of the neutrals in the multilateral negotiations; the interdependence of politics and economics; and the link between military security and the CSCE process.
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Purchase Publication: Claim the special price by entering the code ORIGINS at the end of the purchase process GBP 70.00 56.00, Hardback edition (excluding postage)
Read Wolfgang Schmidt's review of the volume.
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Military Planning for European Theatre Conflict in the Cold War:
An Oral History Roundtable
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Editors:
Jan Hoffenaar, Christopher Findlay
Publisher:
Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Series: Zürcher Beiträge zur Sicherheitspolitik
Description:
This publication features the transcript of an oral history conference from 2006 on military planning in Central Europe during the Cold War. The transcript focuses on the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Détente came to an end and the Cold War reached a renewed peak with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, martial law in Poland, NATO’s announcement of its deployment of medium-range missiles in Europe and then-US president Ronald Reagan taking office, coupled with his announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative... » More
Date of Publication: November 2007
Issue number: 79
Format: PDF
Pages: 231
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Planning the Unthinkable: Czechoslovak War Plans, 1950–1990 |
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Editor: Petr Luňák
Date of Publication: 27 August 2007
Publisher: Dokořán
Description: The publication at hand, prepared by historian and PHP affiliate Petr Luňák, includes 14 original documents from the Central Military Archives in Prague. They deal with the military planning of the Czechoslovak People’s Army (ČSLA) between 1950 and 1990. The records, including war plans rather than operational plans or war games, reveal the strategic thinking in the Warsaw Pact. The documents are particularly valuable as no Soviet military plans have become available to date. The volume furthermore contains an essay by Luňák, providing the necessary historical context, and interviews with ČSLA generals conducted by historian Karel Sieber in 2002–2004 in the framework of the Parallel History Project.
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Transforming NATO in the Cold War:
Challenges beyond deterrence in the 1960s |
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Editors: Andreas Wenger, Christian Nuenlist, Anna Locher
Date of publication: October 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Series: Studies in Security and International Relations (Routledge)
Description: Based on original documents from the archives of NATO and member nations, the 12 essays in this collection focus on the expansion of NATO’s political role rather than its military and force planning functions. These essays show how, in the context of the Berlin crisis, NATO dealt with the twin challenges of Gaullism and détente, evolving into a more political and less hierarchical alliance later in the decade.
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Read Ray C. Hendrickson's review of the volume, courtesy of Mark Kramer and the Journal of Cold War Studies 11:1 (2009). |
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Transatlantic Relations at Stake: Aspects of NATO, 1956-1972 |
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Editors: Christian Nuenlist, Anna Locher
Publisher: Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Series: Zürcher Beiträge zur Sicherheitspolitik
Description: In August 2004, the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich organized and hosted a conference on NATO in the 1960s. Established Cold War historians and younger scholars elaborated on the expansion of NATO's political role... » More
Date of publication: 9 Oct 2006
Issue number: 78
Format: PDF
Pages: 257
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War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War |
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Editors: Vojtech Mastny, Sven S. Holtsmark, Andreas Wenger
Date of publication: May 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Series: Studies in Security and International Relations (Routledge)
Description: Based on previously unknown archival evidence from both East and West, the 12 essays in this collection focus on the potential European battlefield rather than the strategic competition between the superpowers. The book explores the Cold War roots of the different American and European approaches to security.
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Danmark under den kolde krig: Den sikkerhedspolitiske situation 1945-1991 |
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Editor: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier (DIIS)
Date of publication: June 2005
Publisher: DIIS
Description: Resulting from a government commissioned five-year project, this 2,350-page publication presents a comprehensive overview on Denmark during the Cold War. Additional documents, most of them declassified specifically for the project from Russian, East European, West European, and North American archives, will gradually be made available on a special website, www.koldkrigsudredningen.dk (click the word "Dokumenter" in the left panel), as well as on the PHP website. The project has attracted extensive public and scholarly attention, documented on the PHP website.
ISBN: 87-7605-091-2
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The books are available for purchase via netboghandel.dk (for DKK 600.00), or may be downloaded free of charge from www.diis.dk/sw13004.asp. A 23-summary of the findings, as well as sample documents in Danish, English, Polish, Russian, and other languages, may be found on the DIIS website |
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A Cardboard Castle? An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991 |
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Editors: Vojtech Mastny and Malcolm Byrne
Date of publication: May 2005
Publisher: Central European University Press
Series: National Security Archive Cold War Reader
Description: This volume is the first to gather in one place a comprehensive documentary record of the elusive and controversial history of the Soviet-led Cold War alliance from the inside. The product of a multi-year research effort, the book brings together formerly secret records from the archives of every member-state of the communist military grouping. Top-level communications between the alliance's leaders, verbatim transcripts of multilateral summit meetings, and lively discussions inside the various party politburos are among the many previously unavailable materials in this collection.
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China and Eastern Europe, 1960s-1980s: Symposium Proceedings: Reviewing the History of Chinese-East European Relations from the 1960s to the 1980s, Beijing, 24-26 March 2004 |
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Editors: Xiaoyuan Liu, Vojtech Mastny
Publisher: Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Series: Zürcher Beiträge zur Sicherheitspolitik
Description: This symposium report features a comprehensive review of Chinese relations with the Soviet Union's Warsaw Pact allies from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. The report provides a chronological review and discussion of all significant events and features analysis and interpretation from the perspective of veteran diplomats and former party officials... » More
Date of publication: Nov 2004
Issue number: 72
Format: PDF
Pages: 242
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Learning from the Enemy: NATO as a Model for the Warsaw Pact |
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Author: Vojtech Mastny
Publisher: Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Series: Zürcher Beiträge zur Sicherheitspolitik
Description: In 1955 the Warsaw Pact was created as mirror image of NATO. The USSR intended the Pact as a bargaining chip, one that could be negotiated away if favorable international conditions allowed for the simultaneous dissolution of both alliances. When this plan failed, the Warsaw Pact gradually evolved into an alliance in its own right, but remained haunted by the image of its Western counterpart... » More
Date of publication: 2001
Issue number: 58
Format: PDF
Pages: 56
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