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 ...

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 ...

The breakthrough with China and a detente with the Soviets soon followed ... of seeking international primacy at all costs. The Cold War broke out within a few years. Kennedy's international ...

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 ...

In the popular imagination, Jimmy Carter is associated with an idealistic “human rights agenda” for US foreign policy. In ...

Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?

This return to East-West tensions and the renewed prospect of nuclear war led this period to be referred to as a ‘Second Cold War’, comparable to the era that witnessed the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.