While the academic literature examining detente approaches the status of an industry, very little transcends the descriptive or polemical. The best analyses, in both historical and theoretical terms, remain those of Philip Windsor, Germany and the Management of Détente (London : Chatto and Windus, 1971); and Robert Hunter, Security in Europe, rev. ed. (London: Paul Elek Ltd., 1972). More recent, but more uneven, is Nils Andren and Karl Birnbaum (eds.), Beyond Détente: Prospects for East-West Co-operation and Security in Europe (Leiden : Sijthoff, 1976).
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The comparison between the Peace of Westphalia and detente is instructive. While the former agreement represented an attempt to erect a normative framework for international order, this rested on a structure of consensual values as to the legitimacy of the existing order, and the illegitimacy of the pursuit of transcendent values. Moreover, violent change was not delegitimated, but sanctioned as a proper means of policy, limited to the sovereign state. For an analysis of the implications of Westphalia for the international system, see James Mayall, "International Society and International Theory" in Michael Donelan (ed.), The Reasons of State (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1978).
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Henry Kissinger, A World Restored (New York: Universal Library, 1964), p. 6.
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For a lucid analysis of the " game of measurement " which has accompanied this renewed interest in strategic advantage, see Lawrence Freedman, "Balancing Acts " in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 162-172.
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Concerns over the (non) transfer of cruise missile technology, as well as the neutron bomb controversy, both temporarily decided against the interests of the European allies, may be added here.
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For recent developments in the Warsaw Pact, see L.T. Caldwell, " The Warsaw Pact: Directions of Change," Problems of Communism, September-October 1975; and N. Jangotch, "Alliance Management in Eastern Europe," World Politics, April 1975. For analysis of recent integration efforts in Eastern Europe see T. Rakowska-Harmstone , " Socialist Internationalism," Survey, Autumn 1975-Winter 1976.
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An interesting further illustration is provided by a comparison of Soviet policy with respect to Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. The latter broadcasts critical analyses of internal developments in the Eastern bloc—and is jammed; the former primarily presents world and American news—and is left relatively untouched. In a rather homely way, this may indicate the primacy of the internal status quo in Soviet relations with the West.
