The Making of Détente

Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3620-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

Originally published in 1995. In the early 1970s, largely as a result of the debilitating struggle in Vietnam, the United States began to reassess and redefine its basic approach to East-West relations. At the same time, the Soviet Union was awakening to the liabilities that a continuing and unregulated state of hostility would impose on its own internal and external agenda. 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.

"In this important study, Keith Nelson explains the detente period in an imaginative, convincing, and impressively scholarly manner. Although there have been scores of books and memoirs on the subject, none have done the job quite like Nelson's. In particular, he has used post-glasnost Russian memoirs and monographs—and, especially, his own interviews with such key players as Dobrynin and Arbatov—to present one of the most intelligent Kremlinological studies I have ever seen." —Melvin Small, Wayne State University

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelson, Keith L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Developing Confrontation

Chapter 2. The Breakdown of Old Arrangements

Chapter 3. New Military Parity and the Decline of Bipolarity

Chapter 4. Seeking America's Escape from Vietnam

Chapter 5. Finding America's Way to Detente

Chapter 6. Brezhnev and Squaring the Circle

Epilogue: From Detente to the Gorbachev Revolution

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nelson, Keith L.
Keith L. Nelson is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on US-Europe relations in the twentieth century.