Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung

The year 2020 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Moscow Treaty and the thirtieth anniversary of the Two Plus Four Treaty. These anniversaries provide an occasion to dedicate the main focus of the Yearbook on Liberalism Research to the topic ‘Freedom, Security and De-escalation—Liberalism and the Cold War 1970–1990’. The contributions on this thematic focus examine liberal patterns of interpretation, concepts and policies of détente and, at the same time, explore the ambivalences and limits of liberal détente policies. Other contributions deal with French constitutional history, American populism, German emigrants to America, the connection between liberalism and Western Christianity, and the national liberal election campaign in the Bergisches Rhineland in 1907.