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This chapter examines the demise of détente during the Ford administration. In moral terms, this accommodation with the Soviet Union begun by the Nixon administration was condemned as legitimizing a status quo untenable to various Cold War warriors. It was attacked as being strategically imprecise and too amenable to Moscow's ambitions. Crucial in mounting these attacks were the neoconservatives,...
This article analyzes détente as an attempt to engage new international dynamics that limited the exercise and impact of both U.S. and Soviet power by the advent of the Nixon Administration. Efforts by the superpowers to find a modus operandi were continuously eroded by inherent contradictions in the policy's goals and ideological tensions from the outset. This piece explores the Nixon administration's...
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