The Making of Détente : Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam / / Keith L. Nelson.

• Author: Nelson, Keith L.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 217 pages))
• Notes: Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1995.

In 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...