Détente in Cold War Europe : politics and diplomacy in the Mediterranean and the Middle East /
edited by Elena Calandri, Daniele Caviglia and Antonio Varsori.
- London, United Kingdom : I.B. Tauris, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages)
- International library of twentieth century history ; 49 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Fault lines in the post-war Mediterranean and the 'birth of southern Europe' 1945-1979 / The United States, the EEC and the Mediterranean : rivalry or complimentarity? / Rediscovering the Mediterranean : first tests of coordination among the Nine / Sea and détente in Helsinki : the Mediterranean stake of the CSCE 1972-1975 / Regional détente or a new international order? The Italian Communist Party, non-aligned leaders and the Mediterranean 1964-1980 / A window of opportunity? Eurocommunism(s) and détente / The American-Israeli special relationship in the Nixon-Kissinger years / The gods of war were inspecting their armaments : the United States and the 1970 Jordan crisis / The middle eastern test of détente : the direct role of the USSR in the Yom Kippur war 1973 / Conflict and détente in the eastern Mediterranean : from the Yom Kippur war to the Cyprus crisis, October 1973-August 1974 / The post-Cold War legacies of US realism : the 1974 Cyprus crisis in perspective / The fact-finding missions of the Socialist International in the Middle East, 1974-1976 : political networking in Europe's policy towards the Middle East in the 1970s / France, the European Community and the Maghreb, 1963-1976 : from inertia to key player / Turkish anti-westernism : restaging the Euro-Mediterranean world in the era of détente / The distant neighbours : the cooperation agreements between the EEC and the Mashreq 1977 / Gaddafi's Libya : from uncertain alignment with the USSR to support for Arab terrorist movements in the Mediterranean 1974-1986 / Effie G.H. Pedaliu -- Elena Calandri -- Guia Migani -- Nicolas Badalassi -- Marco Galeazzi -- Valentine Lomellini -- Antonio Donno -- Daniele De Luca -- Isabella Ginor, Gideon Remez -- John Sakkas -- Jan Asmussen -- Oliver Rathkolb -- Houda Ben Hamouda -- Mehmet Dosemeci -- Massimiliano Trentin -- Massimiliano Cricco.
"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 constructed. "Detente in Cold War Europe" draws together detailed analyses of the major moments of post-WWII history through the prism of the Mediterranean - including the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975, the Jordan crisis of 1970, the Soviet role in the Yom Kippur war, the Cyprus emergency of 1974, US-Soviet detente and US-Israeli relations under President Nixon."--Publisher's description