From Helsinki to Belgrade. The First CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Belgrade 1977/78

From Helsinki to Belgrade. The First CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Belgrade 1977/78

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OSCE Mission to Serbia, Belgrade Zikic Foundation, Bonn/Belgrade
Veranstaltungsort
Ort
Belgrade
Land
Serbia
Vom - Bis
08.03.2008 - 10.03.2008
Deadline
01.03.2008
Von
Kosanovic, Milan

In the beginning of the 1970s, the two blocks of states led by the U.S. and the USSR agreed on a European Security Conference as a result of the military détente between the two Superpowers. The Conference was held in Helsinki, Finland, from 1973 to 1975, and presented a new approach in developing a broader confidence between the Superpowers. Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe – CSCE (Helsinki, 1973), after two years of negotiations, was concluded in 1975 when 35 European states and the US and Canada signed the Helsinki Final Act. The provisions of the Helsinki Final Act were viewed as essential for position of détente in Europe. Topics opened at the Helsinki Conference were presented within the three baskets: Basket I Security; Basket II Economic, scientific, technological, and environmental cooperation; Basket III Human and civil rights, cultural and information exchange. The first CSCE follow-up meeting was held in Belgrade from October 4, 1977 to March 8, 1978, and was followed by several other follow-up conferences. The main topics discussed at the Belgrade follow-up meeting were especially human and minorities rights issues. Compared to the overall constructiveness of the first CSCE in Helsinki, its follow-up meetings, especially the Belgrade one, were accompanied with clashes between Eastern and Western block of states. CSCE became a forum of public debate between protagonists of the Cold War – the US and the USSR.

Programm

Saturday, March 8th
18:00 Opening of the Conference
Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, OSCE Mission to Serbia, Belgrade
Prof. Dr. Dittmar Dahlmann, Zikic Foundation, Bonn/Belgrade
Ambassador Markku Reimaa, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, OSCE Chairmanship 2008, Helsinki
Ambassador Feodor Starcevic, Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgrade
Živorad Kovacevic, Mayor of Belgrade (retired), President of the European Movement in Serbia, Belgrade

Sunday, March 9th
09:00 Introduction
Vladimir Bilandzic, OSCE Mission to Serbia, Belgrade
Milan Kosanovic, Zikic Foundation, Bonn/Belgrade

09:30 Keynote speech
Klaus Hildebrand (University of Bonn): “European and World Politics in the 1970s”

10:30 CSCE Development Process: Superpowers (Chair: Dittmar Dahlmann, University of Bonn)
Thomas S. Blanton (National Security Archive, Washington, D.C.): "From Helsinki to Belgrade, From Kissinger to Brzezinski – The Changing U.S. Policy Towards the CSCE Process"
Andrey Edemskiy (Moscow Institute of Slavic Studies): “Soviet Foreign Policy on the Road to Helsinki: Strategies and Tactics (1966-1976)”
Harald Biermann (Foundation Haus der Geschichte
 der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn): “U.S. Perceptions of the CSCE process during the 1970s”

12:00 Break

12:30 CSCE Development Process: Neutral and Non-Aligned States (Chair: Ljubinka Trgovcevic, University of Belgrade)
Branislav Milinkovic (Mission of the Republic of Serbia to NATO, Brussels): “From CSCE to OSCE”
Ljubodrag Dimic (University of Belgrade): “Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav Foreign Policy, and the Shaping of the Concept of European Security and Cooperation 1968 – 1975”
Rinaa Elina Kullaa (University of Maryland, Baltimore): “Neutralism and CSCE: the Finish and the Yugoslav Models for Neutralism – the Birth and the Development of CSCE”

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Human Rights and Minorities: The Eastern Approach (Chair: Milan Ristovic, University оf Belgrade)
Wolfgang Eichwede (University of Bremen): “Human Rights and Dissidents in the Soviet Union”
Joachim Scholtyseck (University of Bonn): “Human Rights and Dissidents in GDR”

15:00 Break

16:30 Human Rights and Minorities: The Western Approach (Chair: Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.)
Bent Boel (Aalborg University): “Western Grass Root Contacts With Eastern European Dissidents and Helsinki: The French Case”
Sarah B. Snyder (Yale University, New Haven): “Follow-up at Belgrade: How Human Rights Activists Shaped the Helsinki Process”

19:00 Reception by the Zikic Foundation

Monday, March 10th
09:00 Global Politics: Superpowers (Chair: Gottfried Niedhart, University of Mannheim)
Breck Walker (Sewanee – The University of the South): “‘Neither Shy nor Demagogic’ – The Carter Administration Goes to Belgrade”
Svetlana Savranskaya (National Security Archive, Washington, D.C.): “USSR and CSCE”

10:00 Break

10:30 Global Politics: Western Europe (Chair: Bernd Schäfer, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.)
Angela Romano (University of Florence): “The European Community and the CSCE: Fostering Détente in Europe”
Robert Gerald Hughes (University of Wales, Aberystwyth): “Britain and Ostpolitik”
Oliver Bange (University of Mannheim): “The FRG and the GDR and the Belgrade CSCE Conference”

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Global Politics: Eastern Europe (Chair: Milan Kosanović, University of Bonn)
Wanda Jarzabek (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): “Poland and the Belgrade CSCE Meeting – Hopes and Disappointments”
Jordan Baev (Cold War Research Group – Bulgaria, Sofia): “Bulgaria and the Warsaw Pact consultations on the CSCE Process: From Helsinki to Belgrade”
Mircea Munteanu (Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.): “Romania's reactions to the CSCE Process. From Helsinki to Belgrade”

14:30 Break

15:00 Global Politics: Neutral and Non-Aligned States (Chair: Vladimir Bilandzic, OSCE-Mission, Belgrade)
Thomas Fischer (Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna): “Getting to Know Their Limits: The N+N and the Follow-up Meeting in Belgrade 1976-1978”
Jovan Cavoski (Institute for Modern History of Serbia, Belgrade): “On the Road to Belgrade: Yugoslavia’s Contribution to the Defining of the Concept of European Security and Cooperation 1975-1977”

16:00 Conclusion
Vladimir Bilandzic, OSCE Mission to Serbia, Belgrade
Milan Kosanovic, Zikic Foundation, Bonn/Belgrade

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