The popular story of Reagan “winning the Cold War” also ignores that Reagan adopted many of the practices of detente in his second term. To the extent that Reagan was successful in his ...

The Collapse of Detente, 1975-1983, Islamism, the Iranian Revolution, and the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan, European Integration and Cold War, Detente in Europe, 1962-1975, Cold War and the ...

Détente helped the superpowers reduce spending on the arms race and fighting the Cold War. Instead they could focus on problems in their own respective countries. The USA had suffered from ...

Drawing on newly declassified documents that reveal the central role of energy in the unraveling of détente, Guy Laron explores how escalating energy crises in the 1970s transformed US-Soviet energy ...

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The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

This is a turning point in a troubled century of US-Russia ties, with only a few previous instances where a similar window ...