Potsdamski dijalog Istok-Zapad
The Potsdam East-West Dialogue

Summary/Abstract: The Seventh Annual Conference of the Institute for East-West Security studies in New York took place in the Democratic German Republic — thus, for the first time, in a member state of the Warsaw Treaty. The high scientific, political, diplomatic, military and economic reputation of the 170 participants from 18 countries as well as the favourable state and growth of international political relationships offered a favourable basis for the success of the Conference. The topics dominating the conference are indicators of a new trend in the relationship between the superpowers that could be named 'neodetante': 1. Reforms in the socialist world and their becoming part of world developments; 2. the connection of the relationship between super-powers with the global problems of the international community; 3. problems of disarmament and of the reduction of war danger; 4. economic relationships between East and West and the revitalization of socialist economies; and 5. the direction and quality of integrative European developments. The conference has successfully contributed to the strengthening of the spirit of responsibility and of ways to ensure peace and security in the world.

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