{"product_id":"the-making-of-detente-9781421436203","title":"The Making of Detente","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally 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 monographsand, especially, his own interviews with such key players as Dobrynin and Arbatovto present one of the most intelligent Kremlinolog\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Johns Hopkins Press has published another thought-provoking and well-written book that encourages international relations specialists to rethink key assumptions about the cold war . . . The study invites both more reflection and research. It is likely to prove a seminal work to diplomatic historians and international relations specialists alike in the years ahead.\u003cbr\u003e—Allan E. Goodman, \u003ci\u003eInternational History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is much to like in this book. It is written in a lucid and engaging style. The organization is good, with smooth and effective transitions between the American and Soviet sides of the story. The book is especially strong on the evolution of thinking in the Kremlin; relying on a number of post-Cold War memoirs and monographs, as well as interviews with former Soviet officials, Nelson effectively portrays Moscow's motives and tactics in opting for detente.\u003cbr\u003e—Fredrik Logevall, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Developing Confrontation \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Breakdown of Old Arrangements \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. New Military Parity and the Decline of Bipolarity \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Seeking America's Escape from Vietnam \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Finding America's Way to Detente \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Brezhnev and Squaring the Circle \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: From Detente to the Gorbachev Revolution \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408136053079,"sku":"9781421436203","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421436203.jpg?v=1730501717","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-making-of-detente-9781421436203","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}