Program

Thursday, 26 August 2004

Opening
Andreas Wenger, Center for Security Studies, Zurich

Session 1: Atlantic Community: The Promise of Alliance
Chair: Andreas Wenger, Center for Security Studies, Zurich

"The Domestic Resilience of NATO in the 1960s: A Community of Shared Values Amidst Public Discord"
Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin

"Interdependence on Principle and in Practice"
Ine Megens, Groningen

"'Not a NATO Responsibility'? The Working Group on Psychological Warfare and the Attempt to Develop NATO's Counter-Propagande Role"
Giles Scott-Smith, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, NL

Discussion

Session 1: Atlantic Community: The Promise of Alliance (cont.)
Chair: Leopoldo Nuti, University of Rome III

"An Atlantic Partnership? The Bilderberg Group and the Debate on NATO's Future"
Thomas W. Gijswijt, University of Heidelberg

"A Crisis Foretold: NATO and France, 1963-66”
Anna Locher, Center for Security Studies, Zurich

"NATO in the mid-Sixties: The View of the Secretary General Manlio Brosio”
Bruna Bagnato, University of Florence

Discussion

Session 2: NATO and East-West Relations
Chair: Gustav Schmidt, University of Bochum

"Into the 1960s: The Role of NATO in East-West Relations, 1959-1963”
Christian Nünlist, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich

"Towards a European ‘Third Force’? Reflections on the European Political and Security Co-operation, 1958-64”
Ralph Dietl, University of Belfast

Discussion

"Prospects of the NATO Archives"
Paul Marsden, NATO Archivist, Brussels (invited)

Friday, 27 August 2004

Session 2: NATO and East-West Relations (cont.)
Chair: Gustav Schmidt, University of Bochum

"The Berlin Crisis and the Franco-American Differences over NATO Consultation”
Erin Mahan, Office of the Historian, Department of State, Washington DC

"Information, Persuasion or Consultation? The Western Powers and NATO during the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962”
Bruno Thoss, MGFA Potsdam

Discussion

Session 3: NATO and Disarmament
Chair: Lawrence S. Kaplan, Georgetown University, Washington DC

"From ‘Hardware’ to Consultation: The End of the MLF/ANF Debate and the Rise of the NATO Nuclear Planning Group”
Andrew Priest, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

"The NPT Negotiations and the NATO Factor”
David Tal, University of Tel Aviv

"The NPT as an Instrument of Cross-bloc Interests: Triangulations between Bonn, Washington, and Moscow"
Olivier Bange, University of Mannheim

Discussion

Session 4: NATO and Détente in Domestic Perspectives
Chair: Vojtech Mastny, National Security Archive, Washington DC

"Belgium, NATO, and Détente, 1960-73”
Vincent Dujardin, Université catholique de Louvain

"Denmark's Pursue of Détente Policy: An External or Internal Matter?”
Jonathan Søborg Agger, DIIS, Copenhagen

"’A Planned and Phased Reduction’: The Trudeau Government and the NATO Compromise, 1968-69”
Mary Halloran, Foreign Affairs Canada, Ottawa

Discussion

Saturday, 28 August 2004

Session 5: Domestic Constraints on NATO
Chair: Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin

"The Domestic Cost of NATO Membership: Canada's Commitment to NATO Unity and the Growth of Separatism in Quebec”
Robin Gendron, University of Minnesota

"Italy and NATO in the 1960s”
Leopoldo Nuti, University of Rome III

"NATO, Nuclear Weapons, and Social Protest”
Holger Nehring, Oxford University

"Explaining NATO to the (West) Germans: Helmut Schmidt as a Military Affairs Writer in the 1960s”
Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle, Mannheim