This study demonstrates the changing historical significance of the idea of detente and how non-superpower states can create opportunity out of initially advers

Using new archival sources--including previously secret documents of the East German secret police and Communist Party--M. E. Sarotte goes behind the scenes of

The monumental events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union must be understood, Jan Van Oudenaren argues, in the context of a process of East-West détente beg