Abstract
Much like the Cold War’s rise, the thaw in Cold War tensions in the late 1960s introduced a foreign-policy imperative that disturbed established political alignments in the Federal Republic. But as a national profile analysis will show, the controversy over Ostpolitik also created an opportunity for new interest coalitions to form.
We want to be a nation of good neighbors and will be at home and abroad.
—Chancellor Brandt
Opening Bundestag Address
October 28, 1969
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Patton, D.F. (1999). Détente and Democracy. In: Cold War Politics in Postwar Germany. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299613_4
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