Détente in Cold War Europe

Antonio Varsori is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Padua, where he is Head of the Department of International Studies. He is Deputy-Chairman of the Liaison Committee of the Historians of Contemporary Europe at the European Commission and on the editorial board of several European journals. Elena Calandri is Associate Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Padua. Daniele Caviglia is Associate Professor of the History of International Relations at the LUSPIO Institute in Rome.

Introduction 1
Elena Calandri, Daniele Caviglia, Antonio Varsori
Part 1
The Mediterranean(s) in the Global Balance 13
1 Fault Lines in Post-War Mediterranean and the ‘Birth of
Southern Europe’, 1945–1979: An Overview 15
Effie G.H. Pedaliu
2 The United States, the EE C and the Mediterranean:
Rivalry or Complementarity? 33
Elena Calandri
3 R e-Discovering the Mediterranean: First Tests of
Coordination among the Nine 49
Guia Migani
4 Sea and Détente in Helsinki: The Mediterranean Stake
of the CSCE, 1972–1975 61
Nicolas Badalassi
5 Regional Détente or a New International Order?
The Italian Communist Party, Non-Aligned Leaders
and the Mediterranean, 1964–1980 75
Marco Galeazzi
6 A Window of Opportunity? Eurocommunism(s) and
Détente 89
Valentine Lomellini
Part 2
War and Diplomacy in the Middle East 103
7 The American–Israeli ‘Special Relationship’ in the
Nixon–Kissinger Years 105
Antonio Donno
8 ‘The Gods of War were Inspecting their Armaments’:
The United States and the 1970 Jordan Crisis 117
Daniele De Luca
9 The Middle Eastern Test of Détente: The USSR Direct
Role in the Yom Kippur War, 1973 125
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
10 Conflict and Détente in the Eastern Mediterranean:
From the Yom Kippur War to the Cyprus Crisis,
October 1973–August 1974 141
John Sakkas
11 The Post-Cold War Legacies of US Realism: The 1974
Cyprus Crisis in Perspective 155
Jan Asmussen
12 The Fact-finding Missions of the Socialist International
in the Middle East, 1974–1976 171
Oliver Rathkolb
Part 3
Regional Actors and Dynamics from Détente to the
Second Cold War 193
13 France, the European Community and the Maghreb,
1963–1976: From Inertia to Key Player 195
Houda Ben Hamouda
14 T urkish Anti-Westernism: Restaging the Euro-
Mediterranean World in the Era of Détente 207
Mehmet Dosemeci
15 The Distant Neighbours: The Cooperation Agreements
between the EE C and the Mashreq, 1977 221
Massimiliano Trentin
16 Gaddafi’s Libya: From Uncertain Alignment with the
USSR to Support for Arab Terrorist Movements in the
Mediterranean, 1974–1986 233
Massimiliano Cricco
Notes 241
Index 289