Main description:
Superpower Detente is an outstanding assessment of the highs and lows in the relationship between the two superpowers in the 1970s, and the prospects for a continuing detente between them in the 1980s.
This thorough examination of the 1970s reminds us that improvements early in that decade gave way to stalemate and the demise of detente. The early 1970s saw the most far reaching moves toward detente since the inception of the Cold War. But, Bowker and Williams suggest, the coincidence of interests between the superpowers hid divergent conceptions of what detente was and what kind of behaviour it required.
Table of contents:
Differing Interpretations of Detente
From Cold War to Detente
Superpower Interests in Detente
The Substance of Detente
Detente and the Middle East War of 1973
Superpower Detente and Competition in the Third World
American Domestic Politics and Detente
Soviet Domestic Policies and Detente
Arms Control, the Strategic Balance and the Demise of Detente
Afghanistan and the Return to Cold War
Conclusion
Superpower Detente is an outstanding assessment of the highs and lows in the relationship between the two superpowers in the 1970s, and the prospects for a continuing detente between them in the 1980s.
This thorough examination of the 1970s reminds us that improvements early in that decade gave way to stalemate and the demise of detente. The early 1970s saw the most far reaching moves toward detente since the inception of the Cold War. But, Bowker and Williams suggest, the coincidence of interests between the superpowers hid divergent conceptions of what detente was and what kind of behaviour it required.
Table of contents:
Differing Interpretations of Detente
From Cold War to Detente
Superpower Interests in Detente
The Substance of Detente
Detente and the Middle East War of 1973
Superpower Detente and Competition in the Third World
American Domestic Politics and Detente
Soviet Domestic Policies and Detente
Arms Control, the Strategic Balance and the Demise of Detente
Afghanistan and the Return to Cold War
Conclusion