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Two models of East-West détente dominated the West during the late 1960s and the early 1970s. While the United States gave priority to a military détente and negotiated arms limitation measures with Moscow, France favored political, economic, and cultural détente, as Paris thought it was the only way to facilitate the end of the bipolar order. According to President Georges Pompidou, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe was a good opportunity to implement Gaullist principles of “détente, entente, cooperation” and to work on European reunification by fighting the US–USSR hegemony. Although Washington was not interested in the CSCE at first, the events of 1973–1974 convinced Henry Kissinger that the United States could also benefit from the Helsinki process.