Origins and Impact of Détente. International Politics in the 1970s

Origins and Impact of Détente. International Politics in the 1970s

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Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster; Section of International Relations History, Utrecht University; American Political History Institute of the History Department of Boston University
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Münster
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Deutschland
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19.04.2013 - 20.04.2013
Deadline
31.12.2012
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Pekelder, Jacco

After years of neglect, the 1970s have recently entered the array of academic interest. In the United States and Europe a growing number of historians are finally pulling the decade out of the shadows of the 1960s and 1980s. Apart from a developing consensus that the 1970s constituted a crucial turning point, an era of a significant political, ideological and economic “Tendenzwende” (paradigm shift) everywhere in the Western world, there is still little that ties the publications and research projects together. Researchers from universities in the Netherlands, Germany and the US are therefore building an international research network, “Consigning the 1970s to History. A Global Perspective”, that aims at synthesizing and integrating the existing, and sometimes remarkably diverging analyses of the 1970s, and developing a global perspective on a decade that is still often discussed in a politicized and even emotional way. In November 2011, the new network convened for its first conference at Boston University, where it discussed “The Radical Decade in Global Perspective”.

On 19-20 April 2013, Münster University will host the second conference, on “The Origins and Impact of Détente”. In a two-day program participants will discuss topics such as:
- The internal political debates in European countries and the US about international Détente (including Germany’s neue Ostpolitik);
- The political and socio-cultural impact of Détente on societies and political cultures on both sides of the Atlantic;
- Grassroots Détente, (anti-imperialist) protest movements and the rise of human rights;
- New concepts for the integration of the developing countries of the Third World in New International Order; and
- The End of Détente and its legacies.

Original work on these and related themes by political, economic, social, and cultural historians, social scientists and other researchers focusing on the 1970s is welcome.

If you would like to present a paper (max 30 minutes), please send an abstract in English (max 300 words), including a suitable title and a short biography by 31 December 2012 to dr. Jacco Pekelder (Utrecht University) j.pekelder@uu.nl, who is also available for any questions you might have. Please note that the working language is English. We are looking forward to your contributions.

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Dr. Jacco Pekelder
Utrecht University
Faculty of Humanities
Dept. of History
Drift 10
NL-3512 BS Utrecht
+31 (0)30 253 7789
j.pekelder@uu.nl

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