Detente in Cold War Europe
Politics and Diplomacy in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
Published on 3. December 2015
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Hardback
304 pages
978-1-78076-108-4 (ISBN)
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The Mediterranean sea has been a key geopolitical territory in the global international relations of the twentieth century; of crucial importance to the US, the Middle East and in the history of the EU. As Cold War documents become declassified and these archives become accessible to western historians, this volume reassesses the secret war waged over three decades for control of the Mediterranean Sea. An 'American lake' in the 1950s, a battlefield for influence in the Cold War of the 1960s, and an increasingly important political arena for the oil-rich Gulf States in the 1970s, the Mediterranean offers a focal point around which the major themes and narratives of Cold War history were constructed. "Detente in Cold War Europe" draws together detailed analyses of the major moments of post-WWII history through the prism of the Mediterranean - including the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975, the Jordan crisis of 1970, the Soviet role in the Yom Kippur war, the Cyprus emergency of 1974, US-Soviet detente and US-Israeli relations under President Nixon.
This book is a vital work for historians of the twentieth century and for those seeking to understand the importance of the Mediterranean in the political history of the Cold War.
This book is a vital work for historians of the twentieth century and for those seeking to understand the importance of the Mediterranean in the political history of the Cold War.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
512 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78076-108-4 (9781780761084)
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Politics and Diplomacy in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
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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.
Content
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 Detente in Helsinki: The Mediterranean Stake
of the CSCE, 1972-1975 61
Nicolas Badalassi
5 Regional Detente 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
Detente 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 Detente: The USSR Direct
Role in the Yom Kippur War, 1973 125
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
10 Conflict and Detente 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 Detente 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 Detente 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
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 Detente in Helsinki: The Mediterranean Stake
of the CSCE, 1972-1975 61
Nicolas Badalassi
5 Regional Detente 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
Detente 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 Detente: The USSR Direct
Role in the Yom Kippur War, 1973 125
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
10 Conflict and Detente 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 Detente 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 Detente 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