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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (418 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780813167886 |