Nixon's Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Détente

by Richard A. Moss and James G. Stavridis

Most Americans consider d?tente--the reduction of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union--to be among the Nixon administration's most significant foreign policy successes. The diplomatic back channel that national security advisor Henry Kissinger established with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin became the most important method of achieving this thaw in the Cold War. Kissinger praised back channels for preventing leaks, streamlining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813167876
• ISBN13: 9780813167879
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary