NATO, the Warsaw Pact and Détente, 1965-73
26-28 September 2002, Dobbiaco/Toblach, Italy
The conference was organized by the PHP's Italian partner, the Machiavelli Center for Cold War studies (CIMA), in cooperation with the Cold War International History Project, the French Group "Diplomatie et Stratégie", the Miller Center for Presidential Studies, and the PHP.
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Program
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First Session: The Loss of the Euro-Centric Paradigm in US Foreign Policy
Introduction by Ennio Di Nolfo: US Foreign Policy and the Loss of the Euro-Centric Paradigm
Panel I: Ostpolitik and its critics
- Chair: Christian Ostermann
- Discussant: Geir Lundestad
- Thomas J. Schwartz: "Pat Them on the Heads and Kick Them in the...": Lyndon Johnson, West
Germany, and the American Push toward Détente, 1964-1968 - Maurice Vaïsse: Détente, French-style
- Ruud van Dijk: "We Will Come to Regret German 'Flexibility' ". Ostpolitik and Détente: White House
Misgivings, Their Nature and Their Merits, 1969-1970 - Bernd Schäfer: German Ostpolitik and the Nixon Administration, 1969-1973
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Panel II: Coping with Change: US-Western European Relations
- Chair: Laurent Cesari
- Discussants: Sam F. Wells Jr., Jim Hershberg
PART I
- Massimiliano Guderzo: Johnson, the Atlantic Alliance and European integration
- Saki Dockrill: On the Eve of Détente: Harold Wilson, Lyndon Johnson, and the Question of Keeping
Britain in the Defence of Western Europe - Ilaria Poggiolini: Great Britain Enters the EEC: European Political Collaboration at a Time of
Enlargement and Détente
PART II
- Francis J. Gavin: The Gilpatric Committee and the Origins of America's Non-Proliferation Policy
- Marilena Gala: Arms Control and European Security: The Path to West-European Settlement
through Détente - Leopoldo Nuti: Transatlantic Relations in the Era of Vietnam: Western Europe and the Escalation
of the War, 1965-1968
Keynote Speech by Timothy J. Naftali: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Antecedents of Détente
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Second session: The Alliances
Introduction by Vojtech Mastny: The Soviet Union, Military Rivalry and Détente, 1965-1972
Panel I - Warsaw Pact issues
- Chair: Fulvio D'Amoja
- Discussant: Michael Cox
- Jordan Baev: A Prelude to Détente: The Strange Case of a Regional Inter-blocs Cooperation and Intra-blocs Confrontation in the Balkans: 1964-1974
- Douglas Selvage: "The Warsaw Pact is Dissolving": Poland, the GDR and Bonn's Ostpolitik, 1966-1967
- Mark Kramer, Soviet-Romanian Relations and the Warsaw Pact: Repercussions from the Czechoslovak
Crisis - Tvrtko Jacovina: The Non-Aligned, Tito and the Federalization of Jugoslavia
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Panel II - The Transformations of NATO
- Chair: Frédéric Bozo
- Discussants: Victor Papacosma
PART I
- Anna Locher and Christian Nünlist: No Easy Road to Détente: Conflicting NATO Perceptions in View of
Détente, 1963-1966 - Andreas Wenger: The NATO Crisis of 1966-67 Revisited
- Hubert Zimmermann: The Improbable Permanence of a Commitment: The Battle about the US Military
Presence in Europe in the Period of Détente, 1965-1975
PART II
- Bruna Bagnato, Handling the Alliance in a Time of Change: Manlio Brosio and the Transformation of
NATO - William Burr and Robert Wampler, "With Friends Like These…" - Kissinger, the Atlantic Alliance and the
Abortive "Year of Europe", 1973-1974
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Third session: The Superpowers
Panel I - Soviet Foreign Policy, Détente and the Sino-Soviet Split
- Chair: Hope Harrison
- Discussant: Odd Arne Westad
PART I
- Max Holland: Soviet Dezinformacja, 1963-73: Active Measures under Détente
- Alberto Tonini: Breaking Eggs in the US-Soviet Basket: Egypt, Israel and the Six-Day War
- Isabella Ginor: Under the Yellow Arab Helmet Gleamed Blue Russian Eyes: Operation Kavkaz and the
War of Attrition
PART II
- Tatiana Zazerskaja-Moullec: Fighting Maoism: Soviet Isolation of China, 1964-74
- Chen Jian: After Czechoslovakia of 1968:Beijings Confrontation with Moscow and Rapprochement
with Washington - Marie-Pierre Rey: France, the USSR and the Helsinki Process, 1965-1974
- Vladislav M. Zubok: Brezhnev Factor in Détente, 1968-197
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Panel II - The Nixon Administration and Détente
- Chair: Jim Hershberg
- Discussant: Olav Njølstad
- Odd Arne Westad: The Nixon Administration: A Research Agenda
- Jeffrey Kimball and William Burr: Nixon's Secret Nuclear Alert: Vietnam War Diplomacy and the Joint
Chief of Staff Readiness Test, October 1969 - David Geyer:"A Russian Game, a Chinese Game, and an Election Game": Richard Nixon, the Easter
Offensive and the Road to the Moscow Summit
Panel III - Détente on Tape: The Nixon Recordings and the New History of the 1970s
- Chair: Timothy J. Naftali
- Discussant: Jeffrey Kimball
- Taylor Fain, "Playing the China Card in the Subcontinent": Détente, the Nixon Tapes and
the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 - Ken Hughes, Domestic Determinants of Nixon's Strategy of Détente: Vietnam
- Erin Mahan, The SALT Mindset: Détente through the Nixon Tapes
