The CSCE and the End of the Cold War : Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990

380 Pages·2019·1.973 MB·English

by  Nicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. Snyder

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Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972–1990
Edited by Nicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. Snyder
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In memory of Anne-Marie Le Gloannec (1951–2017)

Contents
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Abbreviations x
Chronology of CSCE Meetings xii
Introduction Nicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. Snyder 1
Part I. Diplomats, Diplomacies and the Making of the CSCE
Chapter 1 The Human Dimension of the CSCE, 1975–1990 17
Andrei Zagorski
Chapter 2 Executors or Creative Deal-Makers? The Role of
the Diplomats in the Making of the Helsinki
CSCE 43
Martin D. Brown and Angela Romano
Chapter 3 From Talleyrand to Sakharov: French Diplomacy
in Search of a ‘Helsinki Effect’ 74
Nicolas Badalassi
Chapter 4 ‘Human Rights, Peace and Security Are
Inseparable’: Max Kampelman and the Helsinki
Process 97
Stephan Kieninger
Part II. The Transnational Promotion of Human Rights and
the Role of Dissidence
Chapter 5 The Committee of Concerned Scientists and the
Helsinki Final Act: ‘Refusenik’ Scientists, Détente
and Human Rights 119
Elisabetta Vezzosi
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Chapter 6 Seeing the Value of the Helsinki Accords: Human
Rights, Peace and Transnational Debates about
Détente, 1981–1988 151
Christian P. Peterson
Chapter 7 The Importance of the Helsinki Process for the
Opposition in Central and Eastern Europe and
the Western Peace Movements in the 1980s 183
Jacek Czaputowicz
Chapter 8 The Limits of Repression: Soviet Bloc Security
Services vs. Transnational Helsinki Networks,
1976–1986 207
Douglas Selvage
Chapter 9 Helsinki at Home: NGOs, the Helsinki Final Act
and Politics in the United States, 1975–1985 230
Carl J. Bon Tempo
Part III. The Politics of the CSCE in Europe
Chapter 10 European Détente and the CSCE: Austria and the
East-Central European Theatre in the 1970s and
1980s 249
Maximilian Graf
Chapter 11 Saving Détente: The Federal Republic of Germany
and the CSCE in the 1980s 275
Matthias Peter
Chapter 12 Transformation by Linkage? Arms Control,
Human Rights and the Rift between Moscow and
East Berlin in the Late 1980s 305
Oliver Bange
Chapter 13 CSCE: Albania, the Outsider in European Political
Life 330
Hamit Kaba
Conclusion Nicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. Snyder 350
Index 357
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Acknowledgements
This work would not have been possible without the Program Sociétés
Plurielles, supported by the Sorbonne Paris Cité University. We there-
fore first and foremost thank the professors who conceived the confer-
ence which, in December 2015 in Paris, laid the foundations for a close
and regular cooperation between the various contributors to this book.
In particular, we would like to thank Sophie Coeuré (University of
Paris 7 – Denis Diderot), Anne de Tinguy (Sciences-Po Paris, INALCO),
Anne-Marie Le Gloannec (Sciences-Po) and Frédéric Bozo (University
of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle), as well as the other members of the
scientific committee: Marie-Pierre Rey (University of Paris 1 – Panthéon
Sorbonne), Evguenia Obitchkina (MGIMO, Moscow) and Gottfried
Niedhart (University of Mannheim).
We want to highlight particularly Anne-Marie Le Gloannec, a great
specialist of contemporary Germany who left us in April 2017. Through
the quality and relevance of her reflections as well as her personal
investment in organizing the 2015 conference, Professor Le Gloannec’s
contributions guided the authors of this book for more than two years.
We honour her memory by dedicating this book to her.
Thanks also to Ilaria Parisi for her efficiency and good nature in orga-
nizing the conference. More broadly, we acknowledge the international
community of scholars of the CSCE and the end of the Cold War who
informed our research and who offered feedback at the initial conference.
We are also grateful to all the contributors, who have cooperated
to make this book a collective scientific endeavour. We also express
our appreciation to our editor Chris Chappell, his editorial assistant
Soyolmaa Lkhagvadorj, and the three anonymous readers for Berghahn
Books. Their suggestions, feedback and support were helpful as we
developed and revised the manuscript.
Finally, we acknowledge our families’ support of our ongoing
interest in the CSCE and all of its many consequences.
Nicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. Snyder
March 2018