00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004618 10254/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10253/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221025095501 10253/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10254/MKRI-P/XI-2008 0010-0520004618 221025################|##########|#eng## 9780415386371 eng 327.1 327.1 HOF e Hofmann, Arne The Emergence of Détente in Europe : Brandt, Kennedy and the Formation of Ostpolitik / Arne Hofmann New York : Routledge, 2007 xiv, 225p.; 24 cm.. ; 24 cm.. 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. Détente International relations 10253/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10254/MKRI-P/XI-2008