Interviews originally broadcast, in 1973-75, over Radio Free Europe.

Includes index.

The moral factor in the conduct of foreign affairs / Bruno Pittermann -- Sovereignty, appeasement and detente / Sir William Hayter -- Cultural exchange and the prospects of change in the Soviet Union / Francois Bondy -- Can culture survive cultural agreements? / Robert F. Byrnes -- Why world stability requires the stability of the Soviet system / Claus D. Kernig -- Security as mutual education / Johan Jrgen Holst -- Finlandization / Wolf H. Halsti -- Detente and reciprocity / Richard Pipes -- The French paradox / Alfred Grosser -- Why the status quo in Eastern Europe is a threat to Soviet security / Adam Ulam -- Europe without a unifying adversary / George W. Ball -- Co-existence without sanctimony / Dean Rusk -- From Cold War to cold peace / Zbigniew Brzezinski -- Rival perspectives / Fran�cois Duch�ene and Leopold Labedz.

Based on Interviews originally broadcast, in 1973-75, over Radio Free Europe, this book comprises thirteen dialogs and a three-cornered conversation on the question of East-West d�etente. The four 'baskets' discussed at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe are analyzed, but the scope of the book extends beyond this to provide an overview of East-West relations in the mid-1970s, from the perspective of that era.