New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War - 9781138731349

Taylor & Francis

Introduction: Unexpected Transformations?, Jussi M. Hanhim\u00E4ki 1. Threat or Opportunity? Kissinger, Brzezinski, and the Demise of the Soviet Union, Jussi M. Hanhim\u00E4ki 2. The Nuclear and Space Talks, George Shultz, and the End of the Cold War, James Graham Wilson 3. Nuclear Weapons, \""Nuclear Ideas\"", and Protests: Did They Matter?, Andrea Chiampan 4. Eduard Shevardnadze, Anatoly Chernyaev, and German Reunification: The Role of Secondary Political Actors in Ending the Cold War, Wolfgang Mueller 5. German Foreign Policy and the\""\u2018German Problem\"" During and After the Cold War: Changes and Continuities, Bernhard Blumenau 6. Freer Movement in Return for Cash: Franz Josef Strau\u00DF, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, and the Milliardenkredit for the GDR, 1983\u20131984, Stephan Kieninger 7. The Opening of the Austrian\u2013Hungarian Border Revisited: How European D\u00E9tente Contributed to Overcoming the \""Iron Curtain\"", Maximilian Graf 8. The Reagan Administration and the Pl