Part I: Introduction and Historical Context Chapter 1: Introduction: The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History, Gunter Bischof, Stefan Karner, Barbara Stelzl-Marx Chapter 2: Summitry in the Twentieth Century: An Overview, David Reynolds Part II: Contextualizing the Vienna Summit United States, France, and Great Britain Chapter 3: The First Test of [. . .] Detente Will Be the Berlin Negotiation: Berlin, Disarmament, and the 1960 Paris Summit, Richard D. Williamson Chapter 4: Vienna, a City that is Symbolic of the Possibility of Finding Equitable Solutions: John F. Kennedy and His European Summitry in Early June 1961, Gunter Bischof and Martin Kofler Chapter 5: Great Britain and the Vienna Summit of June 1961, Anne Deighton Chapter 6: Paris as Beneficiary of the Unsuccessful Vienna Summit, Georges-Henri Soutou Soviet Union Chapter 7: Soviet-American Relations in the Early 1960s, Vladimir Pechatnov Chapter 8: Between Pragmatism and Ideology: The U.S. -Soviet Negotiating Process in the Khrushchev Era, Ol'ga Pavlenko Asia and Africa Chapter 9: Casting a Long Shadow over Vienna: The Chinese Factor in the Vienna Summit, Michail Prozumenshchikov Chapter 10: Laos and the Vienna Summit, Lawrence Freedman Part III: The Summit Chapter 11: Two Days of Drama: Preparation and Execution of the Vienna Summit, Barbara Stelzl-Marx Chapter 12: A Difficult Education: John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev in Vienna, Timothy Naftali Chapter 13: Summit Ladies: Gender Arrangements, Media Staging, and Symbolic Scenes of the 1961Vienna Summit Talks, Ingrid Bauer Chapter 14: Moral Masculinity: Gender, Power, and the Kennedy-Khrushchev Relationship, Jennifer Lynn Walton Chapter 15: On the Significance of Austrian Neutrality for Soviet Foreign Policy under Nikita S. Khrushchev, Peter Ruggenthaler Chapter 16: The Personal Recollections of a Presidential Adviser in Vienna, Ted Sorensen Chapter 17: The Personal Recollections of Khrushchev's Interpreter in Vienna, Viktor Sukhodrev Part IV: The Berlin Crisis Chapter 18: Khrushchev, the Berlin Wall, and the Demand for a Peace Treaty, 1961-1963, Gerhard Wettig Chapter 19: The Vienna Summit and the Construction of the Berlin Wall, Manfred Wilke Appendices Appendix 1: Soviet Kennedy Profile Appendix 2: CIA Profile of Krushchev in Kennedy's Briefing Papers Appendix 4:Krushchev's Presidium Statement before the Vienna Trip Appendix 3-1:Memorandum of Conversation, Vienna, 3 June 1961, 12:45 p.m. Appendix 3-2:Memorandum of Conversation, Vienna, 3 June 1961, 3 p.m. Appendix 3-3:Memorandum of Conversation, Vienna, 4 June 1961, 10:15 a.m.