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Nixon's Back Channel to Moscow : Confidential Diplomacy and Détente /

The changing international environment of the 1960s made it possible to attain detente, a relaxation of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Back-channel diplomacy - confidential contacts between the White House and the Kremlin, mainly between National Security Advisor Henry Kiss...

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Autor principal: Moss, Richard A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The changing international environment of the 1960s made it possible to attain detente, a relaxation of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Back-channel diplomacy - confidential contacts between the White House and the Kremlin, mainly between National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and the Soviet ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Dobrynin-transformed that possibility into reality. This work argues that although back-channel diplomacy was useful in improving U.S.-Soviet relations in the short term by acting as a safety valve and giving policy-actors a personal stake in improved relations, it provided a weak foundation for long-term detente.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (418 pages).
ISBN:9780813167886