Reconciliation Road : : Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace / / Benedikt Schoenborn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Schoenborn, Benedikt,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary European History ; 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Illustrations --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; Chapter 1 ROADS TO RECONCILIATION --; Chapter 2 THE FIRST STEP – COEXISTENCE (1955–66) --; Chapter 3 PROJECTING EAST–WEST RECONCILIATION (1966–69) --; Chapter 4 SUMMIT MEETINGS AS ICEBREAKERS (1969–71) --; Chapter 5 DEVELOPING NEW FRAMEWORKS (1971–74) --; Chapter 6 MAINTAINING CONTACTS WITH THE EAST (1974–92) --; CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789207019; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789207019?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Benedikt Schoenborn.

Among postwar political leaders, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt played one of the most significant roles in reconciling Germans with other Europeans and in creating the international framework that enabled peaceful reunification in 1990. Based on extensive archival research, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of Brandt’s Ostpolitik from its inception until the end of the Cold War through the lens of reconciliation. Here, Benedikt Schoenborn gives us a Brandt who passionately insisted on a gradual reduction of Cold War hostility and a lasting European peace, while remaining strategically and intellectually adaptable in a way that exemplified the ‘imaginativeness of history’.