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Introduction to Chapters 17 to 19

from Part VI - European Détente

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2020

Lorenz M. Lüthi
Lorenz M. Lüthi
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
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European détente in the 1960s and 1970s comprised several parallel but related attempts to lessen the impact of the continent’s division. After two decades of hostility, West Germany tried to engage with East Germany in order to reduce the human toll of division and to entangle its communist sibling economically (Chapter 17). During the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), the Soviet-led Socialist Camp hoped to get legal recognition for its contested post-World War II borders, while the Nine of the European Communities (EC) and Europe’s neutrals tried to improve the civil, political, and human rights situation in the communist half of the continent (Chapter 18). At the same time, the Vatican attempted to engage with the Socialist Camp in order to restore the pastoral life of the Catholic Church behind the Iron Curtain (Chapter 19).

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Cold Wars
Asia, the Middle East, Europe
 , pp. 409 - 412
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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