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The Making of Détente : Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam /

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Historian Keith Nelson details the circumstances and traces the steps that led to the first significant accommodation and easing of tension between the superpowers during the Cold War. He shows that this occurred because historical developments combined in both countries to create a scarcity of the...

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Main Author: Nelson, Keith L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Edition:Open access edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
USA.
Sowjetunion
USA
Soviet Union.
United States.
URSS > Relations exterieures > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations exterieures > URSS.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Ontspanningspolitiek.
Vietnamkrieg
Detente.
Diplomatic relations.
Detente (Politique)
Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The developing confrontation
  • The breakdown of old arrangements
  • New military parity and the decline of bipolarity
  • Seeking America's escape from Vietnam
  • Finding America's way to detente
  • Brezhnev and squaring the circle
  • Epilogue : from detente to the Gorbachev revolution.

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