Introduction / Leopoldo Nuti -- Pt. 1. Superpowers And The Conference On Security And Cooperation -- 1. Zbigniew Brzenzinski And The Helsinki Final Act / Patrick G. Vaughan -- 2. Human Rights Movement In The Ussr After The Signing Of The Helsinki Final Act, And The Reaction Of Soviet Authorities / Svetlana Savranskaya -- 3. Politics Of The Lesser Evil: The West, The Polish Crisis, And The Csce Review Conference In Madrid, 1981-1983 / Douglas Selvage -- Pt. 2. Strategic Landscape Of The 1980s, East And West -- 4. Origins Of The 1979 Dual Track Decision -- A Survey / Leopoldo Nuti -- 5. From Helsinki To The Missiles Question: A Minor Role For Small Countries? The Case Of Belgium (1973-1985) / Vincent Dujardin -- 6. Strategic Defense Initiative: Between Strategy, Diplomacy And U.s. Intelligence Estimates / John Prados -- 7. Reagan's Sdi Announcement And The European Reaction: Diplomacy In The Last Decade Of The Cold War / Sean N. Kalic -- 8. From Inf To Sdi: How Helsinki Reshaped The Transatlantic Dimension Of European Security / Marilena Gala -- 9. Programming Armageddon: Warsaw Pact's War Planning, 1969-1985 / Robert Craig Nation -- 10. Soviet Response To The Euromissiles Crisis / Beatrice Heuser -- 11. Conceptual Battles Of The Central Front: The Air-land Battle And The Soviet Military-technical Revolution / Dima P. Adamsky -- Pt. 3. Economic Issues And European Integration -- 12. Washington's Economic Diplomacy And The Reconstruction Of U.s. Leadership / Fiorella Favino -- 13. Europe And The Ems Challenge: Old And New Forms Of European Integration In The 1970s / Maria Eleonora Guasconi -- 14. Economic Diplomacy And East-west Trade During The Era Of Detente: Strategy Or Obstacle For The West? / Werner D. Lippert -- 15. Polish Crisis And Its Impact On Romanian Economy In The Early 1980s / Petre Opris -- Pt. 4. Battle Of Ideas -- 16. Between East And West -- Social Democracy As Alternative To Communism And Capitalism: Willy Brandt's Strategy As President Of The Socialist International / Bernd Rother -- 17. 'keeping Detente Alive' Inner-german Relations Under Helmut Schmidt And Erich Honecker, 1974-1982 / Oliver Bange -- 18. Eurocommunism: An East German Perspective / Laura Fasanaro -- 19. Puerto Rico Summit Of 1976 And The End Of Eurocommunism / Duccio Basosi And Giovanni Bernardini. Edited By Leopoldo Nuti. Selected Papers From A Conference Organized In Spring, 2006, By The Machiavelli Center For Cold War Studies (cima) And The Cold War International History Project. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [268]-276) And Index.