Freedom and Security: The CSCE and the End of the Cold War (1986-1989)

The CSCE and the End of the Cold War (1986-1989)
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73696-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: New Perspectives on the Cold War

The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) served as an important negotiating forum beyond the confines of the Cold War. This volume focuses on the Vienna Follow-up Meeting (1986–1989), covering prominent issues, such as military security and human rights, as well as less explored topics, including culture and the environment. The book contextualises the Meeting within the CSCE process and global political events, presenting diverse perspectives, retrospectives, and outlooks. It offers insights into the latest scholarship on this important but largely under-researched diplomatic negotiation. Many contributions utilise previously unpublished and unresearched files, along with diplomats' memoirs, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and media reports.

Contributors are: Andrea Brait, Michael Gehler, Maximilian Graf, Anna Graf-Steiner, Simon Graham, Kai Habel, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Nina Hechenblaikner, Wanda Jarzabek, Jonas Kaiser, Miroslav Kunštát, Roland Ernst Laimer, Matthias Peter, Willi Schrenk, and Hermann Wentker.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hechenblaikner, Nina

Brait, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures

Notes on Contributors

The CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Vienna (1986–1989)

An Introduction Nina Hechenblaikner and Andrea Brait

Moscow and Vienna on the Road to Helsinki Anna Graf-Steiner

From Helsinki to Vienna

The CSCE Process in the Second Cold War Hermann Wentker

Austria’s “Mr. CSCE” Helmut Liedermann

A Biographical Approach to the Helsinki Process Maximilian Graf

The Concluding Document of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting, 15 January 1989

An Analysis of Its Drafting and an Interpretation in Comparison with Other Declarations Michael Gehler

Negotiations on Cultural Cooperation at the Vienna Follow-up Meeting from the Perspective of the Austrian Foreign Ministry Andrea Brait

The “neglected step-child” of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting?

Basket II from the Perspective of the Austrian Foreign Ministry Roland Ernst Laimer

Front Page News or Side Note?

The Human Dimension of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Austrian and West German Newspapers Nina Hechenblaikner

Questions of Security

The Role of the Vienna Follow-up Meeting on the Road from the CDE to the CFE Treaty Jonas Kaiser

Shifting Agendas?

The United States, the Soviet Union and the Vienna CSCE, 1986–1989 Jussi M. Hanhimäki

European Political Cooperation at the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting (1986–1989) Matthias Peter

Divergent Neutral Strategies

The N+N and the Issue of Disarmament Kai Habel

East German Intelligence Perspectives on the CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Vienna Simon Graham

A German-German Conflict in a Multilateral Framework

The Debate on Compulsory Currency Exchange at the Vienna Follow-up Meeting Willi Schrenk

Human Rights, the Vienna Follow-up Meeting and Political Transformation in the Eastern Bloc

The Case of Poland Wanda Jarzabek

The Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting and Czechoslovakia Miroslav Kunštát

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nina Hechenblaikner, MA, worked as a research associate at the University of Innsbruck. Her research focuses on the Cold War, diplomatic history, and human rights. Her publications include analysis of the Third CSCE Follow-up Meeting and the New Diplomatic History.

Andrea Brait, PD MMag. Dr., University for Continuing Education Krems, is the head of studies at the Center for Cultures and Technologies of Collecting. Among other topics, she has published works on Austria’s cultural diplomacy.