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The Two Germanies and Military Security in Europe

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  • © 2002

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  1. Christoph Bluth
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Part of the book series: Cold War History (CWH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Two Germanies: Cold War and Détente

    • Christoph Bluth
    Pages 1-40

  3. West Germany and the Collective Defence of Western Europe

    • Christoph Bluth
    Pages 41-87

  4. Soviet Military Power in Europe

    • Christoph Bluth
    Pages 88-119

  5. Signals of Hope

    • Christoph Bluth
    Pages 120-146

  6. Talks about Talks

    • Christoph Bluth
    Pages 147-168

  7. Talks upon Talks

    • Christoph Bluth
    Pages 169-189

  8. The Elusive Goal

    • Christoph Bluth
    Pages 190-232

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 233-276
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About this book

This original study based on documents, hitherto not discussed in literature of the Cold War, adds a significant new perspective to an important episode in Cold War History. The subject of this book is the policy of the two Germanies towards the talks on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) in Europe during the 1970s. Negotiations on MBFR continued for a long time without progress. There has been much speculatuion about the motivations of the Eastern side. This book makes use of newly declassified files and, for the first time, reveals the true purposes and intentions of the Warsaw Pact in those negotiations.

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'By using German documents to reveal the Warsaw Pact position in the MBFR [Mutual and balanced Force Reductions] talks, Bluth has written a genuinely path-breaking study. ' - John Young, Chair of International History, Nottingham University

About the author

CHRISTOPH BLUTH is Professor of International Studies at the University of Leeds. He was previously Professor and Director of the Graduate School of European and International Studies at the University of Reading. He is the author of numerous books and articles on international security, including, Germany and the Future of European Security (Palgrave, 2000); The Nuclear Challenge (Ashgate, 2000); Britain, Germany and Western Nuclear Strategy (OUP, 1995) and Soviet Strategic Arms Policy Before SALT (CUP, 1992). He is also the editor of the Palgrave Euro-Asian Studies series.

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