Trust, but Verify: The Politics of Uncertainty and the Transformation of the Cold War Order, 1969-1991

by Martin Klimke (Editor), Reinhild Kreis (Editor), Christian F. Ostermann (Editor)

Overview

Trust, but Verify uses trust—with its emotional and predictive aspects—to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s. The détente of the 1970s led to the development of some limited trust between the United States and the Soviet Union, which lessened international tensions and enabled advances in areas such as arms control. However, it also created uncertainty in other areas, especially on the part of smaller states that depended on their alliance leaders for protection. The contributors to this volume look at how the "emotional" side of the conflict affected the dynamics of various Cold War relations: between the superpowers, within the two ideological blocs, and inside individual countries on the margins of the East–West confrontation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804798099
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Series:	Cold War International History Project
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Martin Klimke is Associate Dean of Humanities and Associate Professor of History at New York University, Abu Dhabi and formerly a research fellow at the German Historical Institute. Reinhild Kreis is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Mannheim. Christian F. Ostermann is the Director of the HIstory and Public Policy Program at the Wilson Center, which includes the Cold War International History Project.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction Martin Klimke Reinhild Kreis Christian F. Ostermann 1

I The Personal Factor

1 Entrusting and Untrusted: Mao's China at a Crossroads, 1969 Sergey Radchenko 17

2 "No Crowing": Reagan, Trust, and Human Rights Sarah B. Snyder 42

3 Trust between Adversaries and Allies: President George H. W. Bush, Trust, and the End of the Cold War J. Simon Rofe 63

II Risk, Commitment, and Verification: The Blocs at the Negotiating Table

4 Trust and Mistrust and the American Struggle for Verification of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, 1969-1979 Arvid Sehors 85

5 Trust and Transparency at the CSCE, 1969-1975 Michael Cotey Morgan 102

6 Trust or Verification? Accepting Vulnerability in the Making of the INF Treaty Nicholas J. Wheeler Joshua Baker Laura Considine 121

III Between Consolidation and Corrosion: Trust inside the Ideological Blocs of East and West

7 Whom Did the East Germans Trust? Popular Opinion on Threats of War, Confrontation, and Détente in the German Democratic Republic, 1968-1989 Jens Gieseke 143

8 Not Quite "Brothers in Arms": East Germany and People's Poland between Mutual Dependency and Mutual Distrust, 1975-1990 Jens Boysen 167

9 Institutionalizing Trust? Regular Summitry (G7s and European Councils) from the Mid-1970s until the Mid-1980s Noël Bonhomme Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol 198

10 Trust through Familiarity: Transatlantic Relations and Public Diplomacy in the 1980s Reinhild Kreis 218

IV On the Sidelines or in the Middle? Small and Neutral States

11 "Footnotes" as an Expression of Distrust? The United States and the NATO "Flanks" in the Last Two Decades of the Cold War Effie G. H. Pedaliu 237

12 Switzerland and Détente: A Revised Foreign Policy Characterized by Distrust Sandra Bott Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl 259

Conclusion Deborah Welch Larson 279

List of Contributors 289

Index 295

Editorial Reviews

"This book offers an insightful explanation for one of the great puzzles of recent history: how the Cold War, a seemingly indestructible international regime, came to an end. And it will also make waves because the essays take seriously the mission of relating the political, economic, and cultural factors to emotions history."—Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut

"In an abundance of 'trust talk' in international relations, finally a scholarly analysis of how and why trust really matters: how it facilitated cooperation, enabled risk-taking, and helped to establish confidence-building politics, under the highly unlikely auspices of the Cold War."—Ute Frevert, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development

From the Publisher

"This book offers an insightful explanation for one of the great puzzles of recent history: how the Cold War, a seemingly indestructible international regime, came to an end. And it will also make waves because the essays take seriously the mission of relating the political, economic, and cultural factors to emotions history."

Universityof Connecticut - Frank Costigliola

"In an abundance of 'trust talk' in international relations, finally a scholarly analysis of how and why trust really matters: how it facilitated cooperation, enabled risk-taking, and helped to establish confidence-building politics, under the highly unlikely auspices of the Cold War."

Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development - Ute Frevert