Berlin and the Cold War / edited by Seth Givens and Ingo Trauschweizer ; foreword by Walter Momper.
The Cold War is back in the news. So is history, in the sense of past geopolitical confrontations that for a span of a few decades were thought to be largely decoupled from present-day political developments. Of course, such reflexive reactions lack nuance and, until the Russian invasion of Ukraine...
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Athens [Ohio] :
Ohio University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Walter Momper
- Introduction / Ingo Trauschweizer
- Part I Postwar to Cold War, 1945-1957
- Gone but not forgotten: the status of Berlin and the founding of the West German State, 1944-1952 / Samuel Miner
- The first crisis: US Army planning and the defense of Berlin, 1945-1950 / Seth Givens
- The United States, Berlin, and the 1953 uprising / Christian F. Ostermann
- Abduction city: Abductions by the GDR State Security Service in Cold War Berlin / Susanne Muhle
- Part II. Crisis, 1958-1971
- The never-ending Berlin crisis and the limits of alliance politics / Erin Mahan
- The Berlin Wall in history and memory / Hope M. Harrison
- Between freedom's symbol and casus belli: Berlin in the Johnson and Nixon years/ Thomas Schwartz
- Part III. Beyond the Cold War in Berlin, 1972-1990s
- Trade and energy diplomacy as catalysts for détente: Berlin and the Schmidt and Kohl governments / Stephan Kieninger
- Berlin 1989 and the new Atlanticism: US and West German visions for the post-Cold War architecture of Europe / Peter Ridder
- Performing the Wall after its fall / Matt Cornish.