Détente -- International relations

Indeks : p.220-225 ; This book examines the key relationship between Willy Brandt (the Mayor of West Berlin and later West German Chancellor) and the administration of President John F. Kennedy. The author focuses on the administration's influence on the development centrepiece of European detente. Brandts interaction with the Kennedy administration is traced through the Berlin Wall crisis of 1961 crisis in German - American relations, the development of his programmatic statements, Brandt's three meetings with the President including Kennedy's famous visit to Berlin, the limited nuclear test ban treaty and Brandt's Berlin pass agreement of Christmas 1963. The narrative focuses on the gradual change in Brandt's position, systematic parts concentrate on Brandt's and Kennedy's detente concepts, the triangular relationship between West Berlin, Washington and Bonn, with its implications for domestic politics, and on the role of images, campaigning and public opinion.