The Fall of Detente: Soviet-American Relations During the Carter Years

by Odd Arne Westad

The relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States at the end of the 1970s was dominated by a series of conflicts over arms control issues and interventions in the Third World. In the end, the sum of these conflicts destroyed the framework of relaxation of superpower tension known as detente and ushered in a period of renewed Cold war rivalry in the early 1980s. It is now possible to look more closely at what happened in the relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8200376710
• ISBN13: 9788200376712
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Scandinavian University Press
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 8.3"