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Richard Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Détente - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Détente is a French term, meaning a relaxing or easing; the term has been used in international politics since the early 1970s. Generally, it may be applied to any international situation where previ...
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Kissinger and Nixon were pragmatic, flexible, sought order and stability, balance of power, and direct, controlling foreign policy from the White House and NSC rather than relying on bureaucracy ... detente with Russia and China, but local communist governments were challenged, else they upset the balance of power;
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Selected journalism and essays... ... By comparison with Nixon's awful Vietnam policy, his detente with the Soviets was positively shining. Yet Nixon's effort to reduce U.S.-Soviet tensions without abandoning containment, if no disaster, hardly deserves accolades.
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Nixon and Kissinger continued the containment policy they inherited from past administrations, and added China to the team, which gave the Russians a huge strategic problem had they ever planned any type of ground war against the opposing coalition.
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This dissertation presents Soviet analysis of the sources of Soviet policy towards the United States during the Brezhnev-Nixon years. ... The dissertation looks at the Soviet side of the detente equation through Soviet eyes: the rise of detente in the 1960s and early 1970s, its unprecedented peak in 1972-73, and,
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Preoccupied with his foreign policy debacle in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson made little progress toward détente, but his successor, Nixon, was keenly interested in improved East-West relations.
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