NEWS
# shame to the legal profession (16-11-2020)
# IRRESPONSIBLE COMPLICITY (12-11-2020)
# TRAGEDY OF THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. (07-11-2020)
# US SUPREME COURT NEW JUSTICE (29-10-2020)
# BELORUSSIA: END VIOLENCE (26-10-2020)
# EU and Belarus: Shame! (12-09-2020)
# Navalny Poisoning Case (09-09-2020)
# Trump and Russia (04-09-2020)
# "Trump First" and his collaborateurs (03-06-2020)
# Followers and Amnesiacs, 75 years later (27-01-2020)
# TRUMP vs. IRAN (05-01-2020)
# PUTIN DOES NOT WANT PEACE (11-12-2019)
# US CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS(2) (06-11-2019)
# US CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS (02-11-2019)
# Dead End Road of Global Britain (23-07-2019)
# A RUSSIAN GRAND STRATEGY? (04-07-2019)
# NOT CHINA BUT CORPORATE GREED (28-05-2019)
# AMERICA AND CHINA (21-05-2019)
# POISONOUS BREXIT (09-04-2019)
# Can a Puzzle unravel? (12-02-2019)
# A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL! (07-02-2019)
# BREXIT: endless blundering (30-11-2018)
# AMERICA FIRST: Standing with murder? (24-11-2018)
# REFLECTIONS ON AN ARMISTICE (11-11-2018)
# THE NEED FOR CIVIL COURAGE (29-10-2018)
# murder and money (21-10-2018)
# premeditated murder (20-10-2018)
# BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE (05-08-2018)
# WHAT HELSINKI AGREEMENTS? (20-07-2018)
# THE GREAT RUSSIAN DIS-INFORMATION CAMPAIGN (17-07-2018)
# DANGERS OF A NUCLEAR CRISIS (27-05-2018)
# ISRAEL AT 70. (13-05-2018)
# END OF THE IRAN DEAL (09-05-2018)
# IS RUSSIA AT WAR WITH THE WEST? (27-03-2018)
# Russian disdain (19-03-2018)
# extremely lethal nerve agent (18-03-2018)
# disruptive, dangerous Russia (17-03-2018)
# Frederick Douglas (20-02-2018)
# Unpresidented (12-01-2018)
# FIRE AND FURY! (05-01-2018)
# nuclear arms-control? (13-12-2017)
# ICAN Nobel Peace Prize 2017 (11-12-2017)
# Jerusalem (1) Capital of Israel (07-12-2017)
# Jerusalem (2) Capital of Israel (07-12-2017)
# Recklesness First (10-10-2017)
# Kurdistan (30-09-2017)
# North Korea and Russia (06-09-2017)
# GARBLED PRESIDENCY (28-07-2017)
# Absurd Theater: G20 (17-07-2017)
# UNNECESSARY AND HARMFUL (03-06-2017)
# NO LONGER RELIABLE (01-06-2017)
# HOW TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY (19-03-2017)
# Donald Trump's Russian connections (05-03-2017)
# FAKE NEWS made in the White House (05-03-2017)
# POLICIES OF WRATH; EXECUTIVE DISORDERS (31-01-2017)
# BUILDING A CULTURE OF LIFE (31-01-2017)
# FROM ATLANTIC CHARTER TO AMBREXIT (23-01-2017)
# CONTRAST AND KOMPROMAT (13-01-2017)
# Learning from History (06-12-2016)
# U.S.Elections: shocking third debate. (20-10-2016)
# United States and Russia (15-10-2016)
# Armistice in Syria? (12-09-2016)
# Palestinian problem (30-08-2016)
# EUROPEAN NEWS:SEE EUROPEAN UNION (01-08-2016)
# CRISES IN THE WESTERN ALLIANCE (22-07-2016)
# THE IRAQ INQUIRY (13-07-2016)
# The Obama Doctrine (22-03-2016)
# A Hundred Years Ago (12-01-2016)
# Scars of War (12-01-2016)
# Israel and Iran (04-08-2015)
# Turkish Cynicism (04-08-2015)
# JPCOA or Iran Nuclear Deal (17-07-2015)
# ARMENIAN GENOCIDE:new evidence (26-04-2015)
# The Armenian Genocide (21-04-2015)
# WHY ISLAM MUST CHANGE TO JOIN THE MODERN WORLD (16-04-2015)
# MIDDLE EAST WARS (29-03-2015)
# the greatest geopolitical catastrophy.. (21-03-2015)
# Failing American leadership (21-03-2015)
# REMEMBER AND LEARN (27-01-2015)
# Another shocking story (01-10-2014)
# SHOCKING STORY (20-09-2014)
# Wake up call for NATO (16-09-2014)
# NOT AN ERROR BUT TERROR (29-07-2014)
# The criminal downing of Flight MH17 (21-07-2014)
# Back to Soviet propaganda (18-03-2014)
# WHEN THE FOX PREACHETH... (16-09-2013)
# IMPORTANT BREAKTHROUGH (16-09-2013)
# A Common European Foreign and Security Policy? (22-06-2011)
# NATO's New Strategic Concept (22-11-2010)
# Report of the Group of Experts. (22-11-2010)
# Defence Spending (22-11-2010)
# Missile Defence and relations with Russia. (22-11-2010)
# A World Without Nuclear Weapons? (26-04-2010)
# The Katyn Massacre (19-04-2010)
# A New Strategic Concept for NATO? (15-02-2010)
Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau
- Cultural Diplomacy: Waging war by other means?
- The Illusions of Détente,
- Western Cooperation
- Sporen van de Twintigste Eeuw
- European Unification into the twenty first Century...
- De geest van Christus leeft in Europa
- Neither Justice nor Order
The Illusions of Detente
Footprints of the 20th Century - Third EditionDescription
Since 1989, we refer to the whole post-war period as the “Cold War Era”. Such was not the case in 1968. At the time, the Cold War – in our perception – was behind us. We no longer felt to be in the midst of it. Europeans on the Western side of the Iron Curtain0 felt relatively at ease with Europe’s division. The era of Détente as we called it, was0 considered to be a fairly stable and long-lasting political condition, even after Soviet tanks crushed Dubcek’s socialism with a human face in Pragu