The CSCE and the End of the Cold War

Nicolas Badalassi is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut d’Etudes politiques d’Aix-en-Provence (Sciences Po Aix). He is the author of the award-winning En finir avec la guerre froide: La France, l’Europe et le processus d’Helsinki, 1965–1975 (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014). He has also co-edited with H. Ben Hamouda the publication Les pays d’Europe orientale et la Méditerranée, 1967-1989 (Paris: Cahiers Irice, 2013).

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Chronology of CSCE Meetings



Introduction

Nicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. Snyder



PART I: DIPLOMATS, DIPLOMACIES AND THE MAKING OF THE CSCE



Chapter 1. The Human Dimension of the CSCE, 1975–1990

Andrei Zagorski



Chapter 2. Executors or Creative Deal-Makers?: The Role of the Diplomats in the Making of the Helsinki CSCE

Martin D. Brown and Angela Romano



Chapter 3. From Talleyrand to Sakharov: French Diplomacy in Search of a ‘Helsinki Effect’

Nicolas Badalassi



Chapter 4. ‘Human Rights, Peace and Security Are Inseparable’: Max Kampelman and the Helsinki Process

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

Elisabetta Vezzosi



Chapter 6. Seeing the Value of the Helsinki Accords: Human Rights, Peace and Transnational Debates about Détente, 1981–1988

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

Jacek Czaputowicz



Chapter 8. The Limits of Repression: Soviet-Bloc Security Services vs. Transnational Helsinki Networks, 1976–1986

Douglas Selvage



Chapter 9. Helsinki at Home: NGOs, the Helsinki Final Act and Politics in the United States, 1975–1985

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

Maximilian Graf



Chapter 11. Saving Détente: The Federal Republic of Germany and the CSCE in the 1980s

Matthias Peter



Chapter 12. Transformation by Linkage?: Arms Control, Human Rights and the Rift between Moscow and East Berlin in the Late 1980s

Oliver Bange



Chapter 13. CSCE: Albania the Outsider in European Political Life

Hamit Kaba



Conclusion

Nicolas Badalassi and Sarah B. Snyder



Index