Origins of the European security system: the Helsinki process revisited, 1965-75/ edited by Andreas Wenger, Vojtech Mastny, and Christian Nuenlist.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1. INTRODUCTION: 1. New perspectives on the origins of the CSCE process / Andreas Wenger and Vojtech Mastny -- PART 2. THE SUPERPOWERS AND EUROPEAN DETENTE: 2. North America, Atlanticism, and the making of the Helsinki final act / Michael Cotey Morgan ; 3. Henry Kissinger and the reconceptualization of European security, 1969-75 / Jeremi Suri ; 4. The USSR and the Helsinki process, 1969-75: optimism, doubt, or defiance? / Marie-Pierre Rey -- PART 3. EASTERN STRATEGIES IN THE CSCE: 5. The Warsaw Pact and the European security conference, 1964-69: sovereignty, hegemony, and the German question / Douglas Selvage ; 6. The GDR's targets in the Early CSCE process: another missed opportunity to freeze the division of Germany, 1969-73 / Frederica Caciagli ; 7. "Europe must not become Greater Finland: opponents of the CSCE - the German CDU/CSU and China -- PART 4. WESTERN STRATEGIES IN THE CSCE: 8. The EC Nine, the CSCE, and the changing pattern of European security / Daniel Mockli ; 9. From linkage to freer movement: the FRG and the nexus between Western CSCE preparations and Deutschlandpolitik, 1969-72 / Petri Hakkarainen ; 10. "It was Cold War and we wanted to win": human rights, "detente" and the CSCE / Floribert Baudet -- PART 5. THE NEUTRALS - ECONOMICS - MILITARY SECURITY: 11. Expanding the East-West dialog beyond the bloc division: The Neutrals as negotiators and mediators, 1969-75 / Duccio Basosi ; 13. The link between CSCE and MBFR: two sprouts from one bulb / Helga Haftendorn.