Nixon's back channel to Moscow : confidential diplomacy and détente / Richard A. Moss ; foreword by Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.).

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Moss, Richard A [author.]

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9780813167886
0813167884
9780813167893
0813167892
9780813167909
0813167906

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327.73047 23

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E183.8.S65

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Contents:

Introduction: Khenry and Anatol -- Precedents and back-channel games, 1968-1970 -- At a crossroads: Cienfuegos, SALT, and Germany-Berlin -- Playing a game, finding a lever: back channels and Sino-American rapprochement -- Divergent channels: a watershed on the subcontinent -- Vietnam in U.S.-Soviet back channels, November 1971-April 1972 -- Cancellation crises -- Conclusion: at the summit, achieving détente.

Summary: The changing international environment of the 1960s made it possible to attain détente, 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 détente.

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The changing international environment of the 1960s made it possible to attain détente, 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 détente.

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