Nixon in the World American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977

Name: Nixon in the World American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977
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ISBN: 9780195315363

ISBN-10: 0195315367

ISBN-13: 9780195315363

Edition: 2008

Authors: Fredrik Logevall, Andrew Preston

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In the 1970s, the United States faced challenges on a number of fronts. By nearly every measure, American power was no longer unrivalled. The task of managing America's relative decline fell to President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Gerald Ford. From 1969 to 1977, Nixon, Kissinger, and Ford reoriented U.S. foreign policy from its traditional poles of liberal interventionism and conservative isolationism into a policy of active but conservative engagement. In Nixon in the World, eighteen leading historians of the Cold War and U.S. foreign policy show how they did it, where they succeeded, and where they took their new strategy too far. Drawing on newly declassified materials, they…

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List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Fredrik Logevall is Professor of History at Cornell University.

Andrew Preston is University Lecturer in History and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University.



Contributors


Introduction: The Adventurous Journey of Nixon in the World




Parameters



An Elusive Grand Design




Nixon as Statesman: The Failed Campaign




Henry Kissinger and American Grand Strategy




Salesmanship and Substance: The Influence of Domestic Policy and Watergate




Openings



Nixon, Kissinger, and the Opening to China




Nuclear Nixon: Ironies, Puzzles, and the Triumph of Realpolitik




The Frailties of Grand Strategies: A Comparison of Dï¿½tente and Ostpolitik




The United States and the Making of the Helsinki Final Act




Closings



Waging War on All Fronts: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Vietnam War, 1969-1972




The End of the Vietnam War, 1973-1976




Flashpoints, Hotspots, and Allies



The Weight of Conquest: Henry Kissinger and the Arab-Israeli Conflict




The Danger of Geopolitical Fantasies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the South Asia Crisis of 1971




History from Below: The United States and Latin America in the Nixon Years




Nixon Shocks Japan, Inc.




Thanks for the Fish: Nixon, Kissinger, and Canada



Index