The
Road to Helsinki
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The Conference on European Security and Cooperation,
that began thirty years ago and ended with the signature of the Helsinki
Act in 1975, was regarded at the time as a dramatic turning point. It
seemed to confirm the trend away from the harsh confrontation of the
Cold War and to lay a cornerstone for the creation of a more peaceful,
stabilized international system where human rights could be protected
and defended with great vigour. In a few years, as the superpowers veered
towards another round of bitter confrontation and disputes, all these
interpretations came to be perceived as mere illusions and the CSCE
as simply a pause in the Cold War.
This conference intends to investigate all the possible interpretations
of the CSCE by exploring the mindset of those diplomats who carried
out the long negotiations leading up to the Helsinki Act. Three leading
institutions in Cold War studies, CIMA, CWIHP - as partners in the Parallel
History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact - and the National Security
Archive have invited a number of key diplomats, who played a crucial
role in the CSCE negotiations, to discuss their role and their activities
with some of the most important scholars working in this field. Through
the innovative approach of critical oral history, we hope to provide
a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the
international history of the 1970s and of the Cold War in general.
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Former diplomats |
Scholars |
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Andréani (France) Siegfried Bock (GDR) Rodric Braithwaite (Great Britain) Edouard Brunner (Switzerland) Yuri Dubinin (USSR) Nicolae Ecobescu (Romania) Leonidas A. Evangelidis (Greece) Luigi Vittorio Ferraris (Italy) Jim Goodby (USA) Yuri Kashlev (USSR) John Maresca (USA) Adam D. Rotfeld (Poland) Crispin Tickell (Great Britain) Barthold C. Witte (FRG) |
Danilo Ardia Bruna Bagnato Oliver Bange Tom Blanton Elena Calandri Maurizio Cremasco Fulvio D'Amoja Ennio Di Nolfo Marilena Gala Eleonora Guasconi Massimiliano Guderzo Klaus Larres Vojtech Mastny Carla Meneguzzi Rostagni |
Alan Milward Renato Moro Marco Mugnaini Matteo Luigi Napolitano Mikhail Narinskiy Gottfried Niedhart Leopoldo Nuti Paola Olla Christian Ostermann Pietro Pastorelli Marta Petricioli Ilaria Poggiolini Kimmo Rentola Maria Stella Rognoni |
Marie Pierre Rey Bernd Schäfer Erwin Schmidl Svetlana Savranskaja Douglas Selvage Alberto Tonini Luciano Tosi Antonio Varsori Samuel F. Wells, Jr. Andreas Wenger |
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Sandra
Cavallucci
Laura Fasanaro
Hedi Giusto
Via Laura, 48
50124 Firenze (Italy)
tel. 0039 055 2757047
e-mail: [email protected]
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09:30 a.m. Opening remarks |
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The
Preliminary Phase 09:40 a.m. Panel discussion with eye-witnesses 11:00 a.m. Coffee-break 11:15 a.m. Panel discussion with scholars 01:30
p.m. Lunch |
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Content
and Significance of Baskets I and II 03:30 p.m. Panel discussion with eye-witnesses 04:45 p.m. Coffee-break 05:00
p.m. Panel
discussion with scholars |
Tuesday - September 30 |
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Basket
III 09:30 a.m. Panel discussion with eye-witnesses 11:00 a.m. Coffee-break 11:15 a.m. Panel discussion with scholars and conclusions End of the conference 01:30
p.m. Lunch |