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The Global Nuclear Landscape
Like shifting sands of a desert, the global nuclear landscape changes every few years across its three main constituents - nuclear energy, non-proliferation and disarmament. Each of these has seen phases of cautious optimism, deep scepticism and outright pessimism over the last two decades. This book offers a bird’s eye view on all the three, even as the individual authors offer a worm’s eye view on each specific topic within the larger ambit. The first section of the book examines developments in the nuclear energy sector. A broad-brush scan of the contemporary drivers and challenges for nuclear energy at a global level, as also that of India, reveals a positive trend line. There is als...
David Owen, Human Rights and the Remaking of British Foreign Policy
Although the evolution of human rights diplomacy during the second half of the 20th century has been the subject of a wealth of scholarship in recent years, British foreign policy perspectives remain largely underappreciated. Focusing on former Foreign Secretary David Owen's sustained engagement with the related concepts of human rights and humanitarianism, David Owen, Human Rights and the Remaking of British Foreign Policy addresses this striking omission by exploring the relationship between international human rights promotion and British foreign policy between c.1956-1997. In doing so, this book uncovers how human rights concerns have shaped national responses to foreign policy dilemmas ...
Britain, Détente, and the Helsinki CSCE
This book offers the first in-depth account of the United Kingdom’s contribution to the rapprochement between East and West that culminated in the successful negotiation of the Helsinki Final Act of 1975. Britain’s role in this historic achievement has been understudied and understated. This book rectifies this shortcoming by tracing London’s important contribution to East-West diplomacy with a special focus on the negotiations of the Helsinki Final Act (1972–75). The Final Act was the product of almost three years of intense bargaining in the context of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Along with 34 other states, the UK negotiated core aspects of European intern...
Freedom and Security: The CSCE and the End of the Cold War (1986–1989)
The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) served as an important negotiating forum beyond the confines of the Cold War. This volume focuses on the Vienna Follow-up Meeting (1986–1989), covering prominent issues, such as military security and human rights, as well as less explored topics, including culture and the environment. The book contextualises the Meeting within the CSCE process and global political events, presenting diverse perspectives, retrospectives, and outlooks. It offers insights into the latest scholarship on this important but largely under-researched diplomatic negotiation. Many contributions utilise previously unpublished and unresearched files, along with diplomats' memoirs, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and media reports. Contributors are: Andrea Brait, Michael Gehler, Maximilian Graf, Anna Graf-Steiner, Simon Graham, Kai Habel, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Nina Hechenblaikner, Wanda Jarząbek, Jonas Kaiser, Miroslav Kunštát, Roland Ernst Laimer, Matthias Peter, Willi Schrenk, and Hermann Wentker.
Détente in Cold War Europe
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 const...
Beyond the Divide
Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide. Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were institutions, organizations, and individuals who brought people from the East and the West together, joined by shared professions, ideas, and sometimes even through marriage. The volume aims at proving that the post-WWII histories of Western and Eastern Europe were entangled by looking at cases involving France, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and others.
Routledge Handbook on Cooperation, Interdependencies and Security in the Mediterranean
This Handbook provides an essential overview of the contemporary dynamics of the Mediterranean region. Conceptualising the Mediterranean as both a socio-cultural area and a geopolitical entity, it considers the basin both as a whole and as a set of interacting subregions. Established scholars offer new perspectives and approaches from international history, postcolonial studies, migration studies, geography, private international law and public international law, environmental and tourism studies, to reappraise the long-term trends and ruptures that shape security, interdependence, and cooperation. These contributions explain the Mediterranean’s long-established role as a crossroads, and d...
En finir avec la guerre froide
Analyse la politique de la France dans le processus ayant conduit à la signature de l'Acte final d'Helsinki à la fin de la Conférence sur la sécurité et la coopération en Europe, ainsi que des thèmes en débat de 1972 à 1975 : sécurité européenne, circulation des hommes et des informations, coopération économique, scientifique et technique, etc. ©Electre 2015.
France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence
The legacy of World War II and the division of Eastern and Western Europe produced a radical asymmetry, and a variety of misgivings and misunderstandings, in French and German experiences of the nuclear age. At the same time, however, political actors in both nations continually labored to reconcile their differences and engage in productive strategic dialogue. Grounded in cutting-edge research and freshly discovered archival sources, France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence teases out the paradoxical nuclear interactions between France and Germany from 1954 to the present day.
La Lituanie et l'OSCE
Puissance balte, la Lituanie tente d'inscrire sa politique étrangère dans un contexte international nouveau, marqué par la fin de la Guerre froide et, in fine, par la disparition de la configuration d'un monde bipolaire. Cet ouvrage apporte un éclairage nouveau sur la politique extérieure adoptée par Vilnius. Il retrace la diplomatie de la Lituanie à l'OSCE (Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe), première organisation internationale anciennement nommée CSCE, que le pays a intégrée en 1991, en recouvrant sa souveraineté. L'analyse s'appuie sur une évaluation des menaces conventionnelles et hybrides que font peser Russie et Biélorussie sur la sécurité régionale, conditionnant choix et décisions d'un « petit État » qui entend faire de l'OSCE sa vitrine diplomatique. Elle met en exergue les logiques de compétition et de complémentarité entre les différentes structures sécuritaires internationales (OTAN, UE, OSCE) auxquelles appartient la Lituanie.
