The Fall of Détente
Westad, Odd Arne:Full title: Soviet-American Relations during the Carter Years
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 détente and ushered the superpowers into a period of renewed Cold War rivalry in the early 1980s.
Now, for the first time, it is possible to look more closely at what happened in the relationship between Washington and Moscow in this period through declassified Soviet and American documents.
This volume contains a number of interpretative essays from leading Cold War historians as well as some of the more important documents from American and East European archives. It focuses on the SALT II negotiations, on conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, and Afghanistan, and on issues of trade and human rights.
This volume is very much part of the collective efforts of the Carter-Brezhnev Project, an international group of institutions, scholars, and former policymakers who during 1992-1995 organized conferences, interviews, and archival access related to the study of this period.
About the editor: Odd Arne Westad is director of research at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. His most recent book is The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe1945-1989 (1994).
Other contributors are Professor Dan Caldwell and John Lewis Gaddis, senior researcher Olav Njølstad, and Carol Saivetz, Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
Publisher: Scandinavian University Press 1997
ISBN: 82-00-37671-0
357 pages, hardback
Published in English
