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Nixon´s Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Detente
Richard A. Moss
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Description for Nixon´s Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Detente
Hardback. A trenchant analysis of U.S.-Soviet confidential channel diplomacy from President Richard Nixon's inauguration through the apex of detente Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy and Peace. Num Pages: 390 pages, 20 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 306 x 2. Weight in Grams: 756.
Most Americans consider detente - the reduction of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union - to be among the Nixon administration's most significant foreign policy successes. The diplomatic back channel that national security advisor Henry Kissinger established with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin became the most important method of achieving this thaw in the Cold War. Kissinger praised back channels for preventing leaks, streamlining communications, and circumventing what he perceived to be the US State Department's unresponsive and self-interested bureaucracy. Nixon and Kissinger's methods, however, were widely criticized by State Department officials left out of the loop and ... Read more
Most Americans consider detente - the reduction of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union - to be among the Nixon administration's most significant foreign policy successes. The diplomatic back channel that national security advisor Henry Kissinger established with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin became the most important method of achieving this thaw in the Cold War. Kissinger praised back channels for preventing leaks, streamlining communications, and circumventing what he perceived to be the US State Department's unresponsive and self-interested bureaucracy. Nixon and Kissinger's methods, however, were widely criticized by State Department officials left out of the loop and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy and Peace
Number of Pages
418
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813167879
SKU
V9780813167879
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About Richard A. Moss
Richard A. Moss, a former historian for the US Department of State, currently works for the Department of Defense as assistant professor of strategy and policy at the US Naval War College.
Reviews for Nixon´s Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Detente
This narrative is often quite gripping, with wonderfully revealing quotations from the key actors. The author puts the reader on the shoulders of these men and their Soviet counterparts as they maneuver through three years of negotiations, posturing, and policy activities. - Jeremi Suri, author of Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to ... Read more