U.S.-Soviet Relations in the Era of Détente,
1969-1976
Schedule
Monday, October 22, 2007:
- 9:00-9:55: Registration
- 9:55-10:00: Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Dr. Marc J. Susser, The
Historian, U.S. Department of State
- 10:00-10:20: Keynote Address by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
[Transcript and Video]
- 10:25-12:00: Roundtable Discussion of Former Government Officials
[Transcript]
- Chair: Dr. Marc Susser, The Historian, U.S. Department of State
- Dr. Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor, 1969-1975; Secretary of
State, 1973-1977
- General Alexander Haig, Jr., U.S. Army (ret.), Military Assistant to the
National Security Advisor, 1969-1970; Deputy National Security Advisor,
1970-1973; White House Chief of Staff, 1973-1974; Secretary of State,
1981-1982 (Unable to attend)
- Dr. James Schlesinger, Director of Central Intelligence, 1973; Secretary
of Defense, 1973-1975
- Question and Answer
- 12:00-2:00: Lunch
- 2:00-2:20: Welcome and Introduction of Joint Volume: Dr. Marc J. Susser,
The Historian, U.S. Department of State and Ambassador Konstantin Provalov,
History and Records Department, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- 2:20-3:50: Scholarly Interpretations of the Joint Volume and
Détente
- Chair: Dr. Edward Keefer, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of
State
- Dr. Sergey M. Rogov, Director of the USA and Canada Institute of the
Russian Academy of Sciences (Unable to attend)
- Professor Robert Schulzinger, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Professor Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Professor Vladislav Zubok, Temple University
- 4:00-6:00: Reception (by invitation only)
Tuesday, October 23, 2007:
- 8:15-8:55: Registration and Breakfast - Enter from Virginia Avenue and
21st Street
- 8:55-9:00: Welcome
- 9:00-10:30: Panel 1 - Détente and Europe: Transnational
Perspectives
- Chair/ Commentator: Professor Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt
University
- "Recognizing the Soviet Sphere of Influence? U.S.-Soviet Détente and
Eastern Europe, 1969-1976," Professor Douglas Selvage, Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University
- "Operation Hullabaloo: Henry Kissinger, British Diplomacy, and the
Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War," Dr. Stephen Twigge, Foreign and
Commonwealth Office
- "The 'Confidential Channel': Documenting the Secret Diplomacy of Détente,
1969-1972," David C. Geyer, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of
State
- 10:30-10:45: Break
- 10:45-12:15: Panel 2 - Selling the End of the Cold War at Home
- Chair/ Commentator: Professor David Engerman, Brandeis University
- "Voices from Below: Public Opinion and U.S.-Soviet Dialogue, 1969-1973,"
Professor Andrey Edemskiy, Slavic Studies Institute, Russian Academy of
Sciences
- "The Legitimation of the Nixon-Kissinger Grand Design and Grand Strategy,"
Professor Dan Caldwell, Pepperdine University
- "National Security Centrism and the Politics of Détente, 1969-1976,"
Professor Julian Zelizer, Princeton University
- 12:15-1:45: Lunch
- 1:45-3:15: Panel 3 - Détente in Theory and Practice
- Chair/ Commentator: Dr. Bernd Schaefer, German Historical
Institute/Woodrow Wilson Center
- "A Sea of Confusion: The US, the USSR, and the Mediterranean, 1969-1974,"
Dr. Effie G. H. Pedaliu, University of West England-Bristol
- "Détente, Entente, or Linkage? The Helsinki CSCE in U.S.-Soviet
Relations," Professor Angela Romano, University of Florence
- "Vietnam as an Irritant to U.S.-Soviet Détente and Sino-American
Rapprochement, 1971-1973," Professor Lorenz L-thi, McGill University
- 3:15-3:30: Break
- 3:30-5:00: Panel 4 - Détente by Other Means: Science, Culture, and Human
Rights
- Chair/ Commentator: Dr. Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center
- "The Politics of Détente-Era Cultural Texts, 1969-1976," Professor
Kathleen Parth, University of Rochester
- "The Cold War as a Science Race: Examining the Consequences of the
Biological Revolution on Détente, 1969-1975," Professor Shelley Hurt, Vassar
College
- "Human Rights, Détente, and the Making of the Helsinki Final Act,"
Michael Morgan, Yale University