LEADER 03848oam 22007094a 450 001 9910524844603321 005 20251104132449.0 010 $a0-8018-4883-0 010 $a1-4214-3620-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460906 035 $a(OCoLC)1127742919 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78520 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88983 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29138889 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29138889 035 $a(oapen)doab88983 035 $a(OCoLC)1549525523 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460906 100 $a20190926h20191995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Making of Détente$eSoviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam /$fKeith L. Nelson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 217 pages)) 300 $aOpen access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. 300 $aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License 300 $aOriginally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1995. 311 08$a1-4214-3621-3 311 08$a1-4214-3622-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index. 327 $a1. The Developing Confrontation -- 2. The Breakdown of Old Arrangements -- 3. New Military Parity and the Decline of Bipolarity -- 4. Seeking America's Escape from Vietnam -- 5. Finding America's Way to Detente -- 6. Brezhnev and Squaring the Circle -- Epilogue: From Detente to the Gorbachev Revolution. 330 $aIn The Making of Detente, historian 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. He shows that this occurred because historical developments combined in both countries to create a scarcity of the resources needed to maintain the existing activities of their societies, economies, and governments. Given ample means and apparent success, each nation would have almost certainly been inclined to continue established policies, even if these had meant perpetuation of the Cold War. But in the face of substantial shortages - deriving from setbacks with regard to domestic unity and morale, the performance of the economy, and relations with allies - realistically conservative leaders on both sides (those with little interest in transcendent change) found themselves irresistibly attracted by the possibility of an arrangement with their foreign opponent that would reduce the demands being put on them. 606 $aVietnamkrieg$2gnd$3(DE-588)4063516-8 606 $aOntspanningspolitiek$2gtt 606 $aDiplomatic relations$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01907412 606 $aDetente$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00891616 606 $aDetente 607 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union 607 $aSowjetunion$2swd 607 $aUnited States$2swd 607 $aUnited States$2fast 607 $aSoviet Union$2fast 607 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union 615 7$aVietnamkrieg. 615 10$aOntspanningspolitiek. 615 0$aDiplomatic relations. 615 0$aDetente. 615 0$aDetente. 676 $a327.73047 700 $aNelson$b Keith L$0675780 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524844603321 996 $aThe Making of Détente$92676741 997 $aUNINA