Foreign Relations of the United States: 1969-1976, V. 1: Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1969-1972Government Printing Office NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE --Significantly reduced list price while supplies last This volume is part of a subseries of volumes of the Foreign Relations series that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administration of Richard M. Nixon. The subseries will present a documentary record of major foreign policy decisions and actions of President Nixon's administration. This volume documents the intellectual assumptions underlying the foreign policy decisions made by the administration. President Nixon had a strong interest in foreign policy and he and his assistant for National Security Affairs, Henry Kissinger managed many of the more important aspects of foreign policy from the White House. Nixon and Kissinger shared a well-defined general perception of world affairs. The editors of the volume sought to present a representative selection of documents chosen to develop the primary intellectual themes that ran through and animated the administration's foreign policy. The documents selected focus heavily upon the perspectives of Nixon and Kissinger but also include those of Secretary of State Rogers, Secretary of Defense Laird, Under Secretary of State Richardson and others. High school students and above may be interested in this volume for research on U.S. foreign policy and the Richard Nixon administration. Additionally, political scientists, and international relations scholars may also be interested in this volume. High School, academic, and public libraries should include this primary source reference in foreign policy, social studies, and U.S. history collections. |
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... relationship or of a major issue . A measure of the departure of this vol- ume from previous volumes in the Foreign Relations series is the extent to which it draws upon the published record of speeches , press releas- es , press ...
... relationship to the objectives likely to be in dispute . The paradox of contemporary military strength is that a gargantuan increase in power has eroded its relationship to policy . The major nuclear powers are capable of devastating ...
... relationships grew up based on the proposition that deterrence of aggression required the largest possible grouping of powers . This system of alliances was always in difficulty outside the Atlantic area because it tried to apply ...
... relationship for the senior partner , but it is demoralizing in the long run . It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other . In any event , the United States could not expect to ...
... relationships in yet another way . For understandable reasons , the superpowers have sought to make the nuclear environment more predictable - witness the nuclear test ban treaty and the nonpro- liferation treaty . But the blind spot in ...