Reconciliation Road: Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace

Reconciliation Road: Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace
ISBN-10
1789207010
ISBN-13
9781789207019
Category
History
Pages
246
Language
English
Published
2020-09-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Benedikt Schoenborn

Description

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 the interdependence of German history, 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’.

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