The Rise and Fall of DTente

Jussi M. Hanhimki offers students and scholars a survey of the evolution of American foreign policy during a key period in recent history, the era of superpower dtente and global transformation in the 1960s and 1970s. Describing dtente as not only an era but also a strategy of waging the Cold War, Hanhimki examines the reasons that led to the rise of dtente, explores the highlights of the eras reduced East-West tensions, and explains the causes of dtentes demise.