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    Neue Ostpolitik (German for "new eastern policy"), or Ostpolitik (German: [ˈɔstpoliˌtiːk] ) for short, was the normalization of relations between the...
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    cooperate with the Italian Socialist Party. In international affairs, his Ostpolitik engaged in dialogue with the communist countries of Eastern Europe. He...
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    policy of Ostpolitik aimed at improving relations with Eastern Europe. Brandt was controversial on both the right wing, for his Ostpolitik, and on the...
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    policy of Ostpolitik aimed at improving relations with Eastern Europe. Brandt was controversial on both the right wing, for his Ostpolitik, and on the...
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    West Germany were reduced in the late 1960s by Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. In 1989, Hungary decided to dismantle the Iron Curtain and open its border...
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    received world-wide attention. More broadly, the gesture came to symbolise Ostpolitik, Brandt's ultimately successful policy of diplomatically reconciling West...
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    normalise relations with East Germany and the Eastern Bloc, a policy known as Ostpolitik. The party achieved its best ever result of 45.8 per cent in 1972, one...
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    University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-85824-3, pp. 125‒56, 223‒26. "Ostpolitik: The Quadripartite Agreement of September 3, 1971". U.S. Diplomatic Mission...
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    same time, but Norwegian voters rejected membership in a referendum. The Ostpolitik and the ensuing détente led to establishment of a first truly pan-European...
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    Soviets – that recognized East German sovereignty. In the early 1970s, the Ostpolitik ("Eastern Policy") of "Change Through Rapprochement" of the pragmatic...
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  • time, an abandonment of West Germany's Hallstein Doctrine in favor of Ostpolitik. After the entry into force of the Four-Power Agreement from 1971, the...
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  • after the West German policy of Ostpolitik ("Eastern Policy") towards the then communist East Germany, although the Ostpolitik was aimed directly at a normalization...
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    Economic System Economic System of Socialism Legacy Ulbricht Doctrine Ostpolitik Erich Honecker Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde Family Lotte Ulbricht Beate...
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  • reduce friction, Brandt's Ostpolitik was intent on holding to its concept of "two German states in one German nation". Ostpolitik was opposed by the conservative...
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    in 2022, Germany's previous foreign policy towards Russia (traditional Ostpolitik) has been severely criticized for having been too credulous and soft....
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  • of the Ukraine crisis: A new Ostpolitik?." Europe-Asia Studies 68.4 (2016): 665-677. Forsberg, Tuomas. "From Ostpolitik to ‘frostpolitik’? Merkel, Putin...
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    Germany German question Hallstein Doctrine Drang nach Osten Lebensraum Ostpolitik Adjacent countries Territorial evolution of France Territorial evolution...
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    Sarotte, M. E. (2001). Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Détente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4915-6....
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    countries would live mutually. These developments coincided with Bonn's "Ostpolitik" policy formulated by the West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, an effort...
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    Stiftung. Ahonen, Pertti (1998). "Domestic Constraints on West German Ostpolitik: The Role of the Expellee Organizations in the Adenauer Era". Central...
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    very small majority he and Willy Brandt sat by the controversial New Ostpolitik. This policy was within the FDP quite controversial, especially since...
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    – Litovsk and Europe's Twentieth Century. Chernev 2017, pp. 12–40, 1. Ostpolitik Meets World Revolution. Chernev 2017, pp. 3–11, Introduction: A Forgotten...
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    (2018). "Foreign Policy Doctrine of the Holy See in the Cold War Europe: Ostpolitik of the Holy See". The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations. 49...
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    (2005). Germany's Foreign Policy Towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik Revisited. Oxon: Routledge. pp. 30. ISBN 978-0-415-36974-9. Gerlach, Christian...
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    government of Willy Brandt extended a qualified recognition under its Ostpolitik initiative. Allied-occupied Austria History of East Germany Bizone Trizone...
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    strained, although they improved after Chancellor Willy Brandt launched the Ostpolitik. In 1990, Germany reunified and it confirmed the Polish-German border...
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    Germany German question Hallstein Doctrine Drang nach Osten Lebensraum Ostpolitik Adjacent countries Territorial evolution of France Territorial evolution...
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    Conferences, which became mandatory after Vatican II. Others questioned his Ostpolitik and contacts with Communism and the deals he engaged in for the faithful...
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    recognition, Springer was unyielding. He condemned the accommodationist Ostpolitik pursued from 1969 by Brandt. Springer's hostility to the SED regime was...
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    the vote to Barzel 344 to 174. In April 1972, in the light of Brandt's Ostpolitik, the CDU aimed to depose Brandt and his government in a constructive vote...
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