I. Crystallizing the Cold War -- George Kennan's course, 1947-49 : a Gaullist before de Gaulle / John L. Harper -- The Bilderberg Group and the end of the Cold War : the disengagement debates of the 1950s / Thomas W. Gijswijt -- II. Stalin's death and after : a missed opportunity? -- Moscow's campaign against the Cold War, 1945-1955 / Geoffrey Roberts -- Stalin's death and Anglo-American visions of ending the Cold War, 1953 / Jaclyn Stanke -- Soviet intellectuals after Stalin's death and their visions of the Cold War's end / Vladislav Zubok -- III. Alternative visions of the 1960s -- Towards a new concert of Europe : De Gaulle's vision of a post-Cold War Europe / Garret Martin -- Franz Josef Strauss and the end of the Cold War / Ronald J. Granieri -- IV. A Helsinki vision? -- A very British vision of détente : the United Kingdom's foreign policy during the Helsinki Process, 1969-1975 / Martin D. Brown -- The EC Nine's vision and attempts at ending the Cold War / Angela Romano -- V. Visions and dissent in the 1970s -- 'The transformation of the other side' : Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik and the liberal peace concept / Gottfried Niedhart -- Neither in one bloc, nor in the other : Berlinguer's vision of the end of the Cold War / Laura Fasanaro -- Overcoming bloc division from below : Jiří Hájek and the CSCE appeal of Charter 77 / Christian Domnitz -- VI. Vision or status quo in the 1970s -- Henry Kissinger : vision or status quo? / Jussi Hanhimäki -- Valery Giscard d'Estaing and his vision of the end of the Cold War / Georges-Henri Soutou -- VII. Evolutionary visions and unexpected results in the 1980s -- Ending the Cold War, unintentionally / Gregory F. Domber -- Common security as a way to overcome the (second) Cold War? Willy Brandt's strategy for peace in the 1980s / Bernd Rother -- Which socialism after the Cold War? Gorbachev's vision and its impact on the French left / Marie-Pierre Rey -- Thatcher's double track road to the end of the Cold War : the irreconcilability of liberalisation and preservation / Ilaria Poggiolini -- Mitterand's vision and the end of the Cold War / Frédé́ric Bozo -- Visions of ending the Cold War : triumphalism and US Soviet policy in the 1980s / Beth A. Fischer -- The power of imagination : how Reagan's SDI inadvertently contributed to the end of the Cold War / Marilena Gala.
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"Exploring the visions of the end of the Cold War that have been put forth since its inception until its actual ending, this volume brings to the fore the reflections, programmes, and strategies that were intended to call into question the bipolar system and replace it with alternative approaches or concepts. These visions were associated not only with prominent individuals, organized groups and civil societies, but were also connected to specific historical processes or events. They ranged from actual, thoroughly conceived programmes, to more blurred, utopian aspirations -- or simply the belief that the Cold War had already, in effect, come to an end. Such visions reveal much about the contexts in which they were developed and shed light on crucial moments and phases of the Cold War."--