Transcending the Cold War
Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 19701990
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There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.
Brutus, in Julius Caesar, act 4, scene 3
Lets say to hell with the past.
Well do it our way and get something done.
Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev, Geneva, 20 November 1985
Contents
ABM | Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty |
CBMs | confidence-building measures |
CCP | Chinese Communist Party |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany (Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) |
CPSU | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
CSCE | Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe |
CSU | Christian Social Union (Christlich-Soziale Union) |
CTBT | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
DMZ | De-Militarized Zone |
DRV | Democratic Republic of Vietnam |
EC | European Community |
EU | European Union |
ERWs | enhanced radiation warheads |
FBS | forward-based systems |
FRC | Foreign Relations Committee, US Senate |
FRG | Federal Republic of Germany |
GDR | German Democratic Republic |
GLCM | ground-launched cruise missiles |
G7 | Group of Seven |
HVA | Main Directorate for Reconnaissance, GDR (Hauptverwaltung Aufklrung) |
ICBMs | intercontinental ballistic missiles |
INFs | intermediate-range nuclear forces |
MAD | Mutual Assured Destruction |
MBFR | mutual and balanced force reduction (talks) |
MFN | Most Favoured Nation trade status |
MIRVs | multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
NORAD | North American Aerospace Defense Command |
NSC | National Security Council |
NSDD | National Security Decision Directive |
NVA | National Peoples Army of the GDR (Nationale Volksarmee) |
PRC | Peoples Republic of China |
SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
SDI | Strategic Defense Initiative |
SED | Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) |
SLBMs | submarine-launched ballistic missiles |
SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) |
SRINFs | shorter-range INFs |
UN | United Nations |
James Cameron is a Stanton Research Fellow at Fundao Getulio Vargas in Brazil. His first book The Secret Struggle: The Rise and Demise of Americas First Missile Defense System, 19611972, is under contract with Oxford University Press.
Jeffrey A. Engel is the founding Director of Southern Methodist Universitys Center for Presidential History in Dallas, Texas. Author or editor of nine books on American foreign policy, he is currently writing When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the Surprisingly Peaceful End of the Cold War.
Jonathan Hunt is Lecturer in Modern Global History at the University of Southampton. He is finishing his first book, provisionally entitled Nuclear Containment: The Spread of Atomic Weapons and the Pax Americana.
Michael Cotey Morgan is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of a forthcoming history of the Helsinki Final Act.
Gottfried Niedhart is Professor Emeritus at the University of Mannheim. His publications include Entspannung in Europa: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Warschauer Pakt, 19661975 (2014).
Sergey Radchenko is Zi Jiang Distinguished Professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai, and Professor of International Politics at Cardiff University. His most recent book is Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War (2014).
David Reynolds is Professor of International History at Cambridge University. His books include Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century (2007).
Daniel Sargent is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Policy in the 1970s (2015).
Benedikt Schoenborn is a Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere, Finland. His next book is entitled Germany and European Peace: Through Reconciliation to Unification.
Kristina Spohr is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. Her most recent book is The Global Chancellor: Helmut Schmidt and the Reshaping of the International Order (2016).
Chris Tudda is a Historian at the United States Department of State. His most recent book is