Willy Brandt and International Relations: Europe, the USA and Latin America, 1974-1992

257 Pages·2018·16.616 MB·English

by  Bernd Rother, Klaus Larres

Willy Brandt and International
Relations

Willy Brandt and International

Relations
Europe, the USA, and Latin America,
1974–1992
Edited by
Bernd Rother and Klaus Larres
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Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction Bernd Rother and Klaus Larres 1
Part 1 Willy Brandt and the United States
1 Willy Brandt’s Relations with the United States, 1933–1974
Judith Michel 15
2 Berlin Bonds: Willy Brandt’s American Support Network,
1946–1989 Scott H. Krause 33
3 Two Very Different Atlanticists? Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt,
1945–1992 Mathias Haeussler 51
4 A Prophet Unheard: Willy Brandt’s North-South Policy and Its
Reception in the United States Wolfgang Schmidt 67
Part 2 Willy Brandt: The European Dimension
5 A Post-national Europe: Brandt’s Vision for the European
Community between the Superpowers Harold Mock 87
6 How Do We Deal with Eurocommunism? A Case Study of
Dissonance between Willy Brandt and the US Governments of
Nixon, Ford, and Carter Nikolas Dörr 109
7 The Turbulent Years: Willy Brandt’s Transatlantic Networks during
the Euromissile Crisis Jan Hansen 127
8 Conceptualizing “Common Security”: Willy Brandt’s Vision of
Trans-bloc Security and Its International Perception,
1981–1990 Oliver Bange 143
vi Contents
Part 3 Willy Brandt: The Latin American Dimension
9 “Elastic Cooperation”: Willy Brandt and Latin America
Fernando Pedrosa 163
10 From the Iberian Peninsula to Latin America: The Socialist
International’s Initiatives in the First Years of Brandt’s
Presidency Ana Mónica Fonseca 179
11 Cooperation between the European and Latin American Moderate
Left in the 1970s and 1980s Bernd Rother 195
Annex: Doing Historical Research on Willy Brandt 211
Bibliography 215
Index 231
Acknowledgments

This volume is the outcome of an international conference that was held in
Berlin in June 2016, organized by the Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung. It
was generously supported by the German Historical Institute, Washington DC,
the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin, and the Berliner Kolleg Kalter Krieg.
We are most grateful for the many insights provided during the conference by
Dieter Dettke, Pierre Schori, Reimund Seidelmann, and Karsten D. Voigt.
We would like to express our deep appreciation to Sabine Bartel for her
outstanding lingustic skills, which helped us greatly to produce a polished
manuscript. Without Martin Hamre and Martin Pieper this volume would have
lacked a register. Thanks to both of them.
And last but not least we are thankful for the tireless support that Emma
Goode of Bloomsbury Publishers provided during the editiorial process.
Contributors
Klaus Larres is a professor of History and International Relations at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a senior fellow at the School
of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington,
DC. He has worked as a professor and fellow at different universities around
the world. His research includes contemporary transatlantic relations, European
integration, and twentieth-century American, German, and British foreign
policies in comparative perspective. Klaus Larres has published Germany and
the United States of America in the 20th Century: A Political History (1997) and
The American Secretaries of State and Transatlantic Relations (2010).
Bernd Rother works as a research fellow at the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt
Foundation in Berlin. He studied History and Political Science and wrote his
thesis about Portugal’s socialist party. Bernd Rother worked as a research fellow
at the Institute for Social History in Bonn, the University of Hanover, and the
Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam. His fields
of research include German and European labor movements, contemporary
history, social democracy, and Jewish history. He is the editor of Willy Brandts
Außenpolitik (2014) and coeditor of Berliner Ausgabe—Volume 8: Willy Brandt.
Über Europa hinaus. Dritte Welt und Sozialistische Internationale (2006) and
Volume 10: Gemeinsame Sicherheit. Internationale Beziehungen und deutsche
Frage 1982–1992 (2009).
Oliver Bange is a senior lecturer at the University of Mannheim and is currently
working at the East Asia Desk of the German Ministry of Defense. He received
his doctorate from the London School of Economics and his habilitation
from the University of Mannheim. His research focuses include diplomatic,
military, social, and nuclear history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In 2017 he published: Sicherheit und Staat—Die Bündnis und Militärpolitik der
DDR im internationalen Kontext 1969 bis 1990 (Berlin); he edited: Zwischen
Bündnistreue und staatlichen Eigeninteresse—Die Streitkräfte der DDR und
der ČSSR 1968 bis 1990 (Potsdam); and coedited with Poul Villaume: The Long
Détente: Changing Concepts of Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1950s–1980s
(Budapest/New York).
Contributors ix
Nikolas Dörr is a historian and political scientist working as a postdoctoral
Research Fellow at the University of Bremen’s SOCIUM—Research Center on
Inequality and Social Policy. He studied History, Political Science, and Peace and
Conflict studies. Nikolas Dörr published his doctoral thesis on Die Rote Gefahr.
Der italienische Eurokommunismus als sicherheitspolitische Herausforderung für
die USA und Westdeutschland 1969–1979 (2017). His academic research includes
the history of international relations, Cold War studies, the history of the labor
movement, and military history.
Ana Mónica Fonseca works as a research fellow and postdoctoral researcher
at the Center for International Studies at the University Institute of Lisbon. She
graduated in Modern and Contemporary History in 2011. Her thesis is entitled
É Preciso Regar os Cravos! A Social-Democracia Alemã e a transição portuguesa
para a Democracia (1974–1976) and was awarded Honorable Mentions.
Her main fields of research are Southern Europe’s democratic transitions,
Portuguese-German relations during the Cold War, transatlantic relations,
German history, democracy promotion, and transnational history. Mónica
Fonseca has published papers in several international academic journals, such
as the Journal of European Integration History.
Mathias Haeussler is a postdoctoral research fellow at Magdalene College,
University of Cambridge. He studied History and Politics in London and did an
MPhil in Modern European History before receiving his PhD at the University
of Cambridge in 2015 with a thesis entitled Helmut Schmidt and Anglo-German
Relations, 1974–82. He held visiting fellowships at the University of Bonn and
the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His research mainly focuses
on the interrelations of the Cold War and European integration and Europe’s
changing role in the transatlantic alliance. Mathias Haeussler is currently
working on his postdoctoral project on Elvis Presley and the Cold War.
Jan Hansen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of History at
the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. After his graduation in 2014, he started
working at the chair for the History of Western Europe and Transatlantic
Relations. For the 2017–2018 academic year, he is a fellow in the History of the
Americas at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. He is also a
book review editor for H-Soz-Kult. His doctoral thesis was published with De
Gruyter Oldenbourg as Abschied vom Kalten Krieg? Die Sozialdemokraten und
der Nachrüstungsstreit (1977–1987) (2016). Jan Hansen’s academic research
interests include the history of politics, Cold War studies, and the history of the