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Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976

Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976

by Robert S. Litwak
Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976

Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976

by Robert S. Litwak

Overview

Although many volumes have been written on the Nixon–Kissinger foreign policy, this book provides the first sustained treatment of the Nixon Doctrine. Enunciated by President Nixon in July 1969, the Nixon Doctrine established the basis not only for the subsequent American withdrawal from Vietnam, but also, more broadly, for US security policy towards the Third World. Along with US–Soviet detente, it stood as one of the two central elements of the Nixon–Kissinger diplomatic strategy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521338349
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 08/29/1986
Series: LSE Monographs in International Studies
Pages: 244
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. America as the night-watchman state, 1947–1968; 2. Charting the Nixon-Kissinger strategy; 3. The Nixon-Kissinger strategy: 1. Defining the 'limited adversary relationship', 1969–1973; 4. The Nixon-Kissinger strategy: 2. The limits of politico-military retrenchment; 5. The Nixon-Kissinger strategy: 3. Detente and the dilemmas of strategic management, 1973–1976; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
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