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Detente or Razryadka? The Kissinger-Dobrynin Telephone Transcripts and Relaxing American-Soviet Tensions, 1969-1977.
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This dissertation argues that through a secret backchannel, US National Security Adviser and later Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador to the US Anatoly Dobrynin formed a relationship which provided the empathy needed to bridge many of the ideological differences between their two countries. It examines transcripts of their telephone conversations from 1969-1977 when the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in detente, or a relaxation of tensions, during the Cold War. The dissertation concludes that the Kissinger-Dobrynin backchannel serves as a case study of the effectiveness of back channels in international diplomacy.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- History, PhD
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Open Access Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- School of Arts and Humanities
- Year dc:date.available
- 2013
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Stackhouse, Daniel S., Jr.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- William Jones
- Joshua Goode
Subjects
dc:subject × 11Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/86
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1087