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Helsinki 40 years later
Helsinki 40 ans après
International Reordering and Societal Change (1975-1990)
Reconfiguration internationale et changements sociaux (1975-1990)
Published on Tuesday, December 01, 2015
Abstract
Ever since its signing 40 years ago, the Helsinki Final Act has been at the heart of political and historical controversies. While at the time some saw it as an instrument designed to preserve the European status quo, today it is widely perceived as a major contribution to the end of the Cold War and the disappearance of the Soviet bloc. Twenty five years after the end of the Cold War, this conference will seek to evaluate the reality of this interaction between diplomacies and societies during and after the Helsinki conference.
Announcement
Program
Friday 11 December
08:45 Arrival of participants
09:00 Conference begins
09:15 First panel: Diplomats, diplomacies and the Making of the CSCE
Chair: Frédéric Bozo, Sorbonne Nouvelle/Sorbonne Paris Cité
- Nicolas Badalassi, Université de Bretagne Sud (Lorient): “From Talleyrand to Sakharov: French diplomacy in search of a Helsinki effect”
- Martin D. Brown & Angela Romano, University of Glasgow: “Executors or Creative Deal-Makers? The Role of the Diplomats in the making of the Helsinki CSCE”
- Andrei Zagorski, MGIMO (Moscow): “The Human Dimension of the CSCE 1975—1990: A Driver and Hostage of Multilateral Diplomacy”
- Stephan Kieninger, German Federal Archives (Koblenz): “A New Phase of the CSCE – Max Kampelman and the Madrid Follow-Up Meeting, 1980-1983”
Discussant: Gottfried Niedhart, Universität Mannheim
11:00 Coffee Break
11:15 Second panel: The United States, the CSCE, and the Transnational Promotion of Human Rights
Chair: Mario Del Pero, Sciences Po/Sorbonne Paris Cité
- Carl Bon Tempo, University at Albany, State University of New York: “Helsinki at Home: NGOs, Helsinki, and Politics in the United States, 1975-1990”.
- Christian P. Peterson, Ferris State University, Big Rapids: “Seeing the Value of the Helsinki Accords: Human Rights, Peace and Transnational Debates about Détente, 1981-1988”.
- Elisabetta Vezzosi, University of Trieste: “The Committee of Concerned Scientists and the Helsinki Accords: "Refusenik" Scientists, Détente, and Human Rights”.
Discussant: Sarah Snyder, American University, Washington D.C.
12:45 Lunch for participants
14:00 Third panel: The Politics of the CSCE in Europe
Chair: Anne de Tinguy, INALCO & Sciences Po/Sorbonne Paris Cité
- Maximilian Graf, University of Vienna: “European Détente and the CSCE: TheCentral European Theatre in the 1970s and 1980s”
- Hamit Kaba, Center for Albanian Studies (Tirana): “The Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe: a lost chance for Albania”
- Frédéric Heurtebize, Université Paris Ouest La Défense: “The CSCE, Eurocommunism, and the Failure of Superpower Détente”
- Evgenia Obitchkina, MGIMO (Moscow): “La troisième corbeille: casse-tête ou outil de la diplomatie soviétique?”
Discussant : Marie-Pierre Rey, Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne
15:45 Coffee Break
16:00 Fourth panel: The Role of Dissidence
Chair: Kathy Rousselet, Sciences Po/Sorbonne Paris Cité
- Robert Brier, London School of Economics: “The Rise of Soviet and East European Dissent: How Important was the Helsinki Final Act?”
- Jacek Czaputowicz, Warsaw University: “The importance of the Helsinki Final Act for the Integration of the Opposition Groups in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Peace Movements in the 1980s”
- Douglas Selvage, Office of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records (Berlin): “The Limits of Repression: Soviet-Bloc Security Services vs. Transnational Helsinki Networks, 1976-1986”
Discussant: Sophie Coeuré, Université Paris Diderot/Sorbonne Paris Cité
17:30 End of day’s proceedings (dinner for participants at 19:45).
Saturday 12 December
09:30 Fifth panel: The CSCE and the End of the Cold War
Chair: Gottfried Niedhart, Universität Mannheim
- Mathias Peter, Institut für Zeitgeschichte Munich–Berlin: “Saving Détente. The Federal Republic of Germany and the CSCE in the 1980s”
- Oliver Bange, Centre for Military History and Social Sciences of the German Armed Forces (Potsdam): “Transformation by Linkage ? Arms Control, Human Rights and the Rift between Moscow and East Berlin in the late 1980s”
- Svetlana Savranskaya, George Washington University (Washington D.C.): “"A Beautiful Dream but just a Dream": Gorbachev and CSCE, 1985-1991”
Discussant: Anne-Marie Le Gloannec, Sciences Po/Sorbonne Paris Cité
11:00 Coffee Break
11:15 Projection : Ludmila Alekseeva : An Interview, presented by Elena Smirnova and Sophie Coeuré
11:30 Roundtable: What Helsinki Effect? Diplomacies, Societies, and the Reunification of the Continent
With John Maresca (Geneva), Pierre Morel (Paris), Wolfgang Schenk (Berlin), Eugeniusz Smolar (Warsaw)
Moderation: Anne-Marie Le Gloannec, Sciences Po/Sorbonne Paris Cité
13:00 Lunch for participants
Subjects
- History (Main category)
- Zones and regions > Europe > Central and Eastern Europe > Russian and former Soviet worlds
- Society > Political studies > Political history
- Society > Political studies > International relations
- Periods > Modern > Twenty-first century
- Zones and regions > Europe > Central and Eastern Europe
- Periods > Modern > Twentieth century > 1945-1989
Places
- Sciences Po - 13 rue de l'Université
Paris, France (75007)
Date(s)
- Friday, December 11, 2015
- Saturday, December 12, 2015
Attached files
Keywords
- guerre froide, intellectuel, dissident, droit de l'homme, OSCE, union soviétique, communisme
Contact(s)
- Sophie Coeuré
courriel : sophie [dot] coeure [at] univ-paris-diderot [dot] fr
Reference Urls
Information source
- Gabrielle Chomentowski
courriel : gabrielle [dot] chomentowski [at] inalco [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Helsinki 40 years later », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, December 01, 2015, https://doi.org/10.58079/txe
