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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... past , measures to increase readiness signaled the mounting seriousness with which an issue was viewed.2 But such measures have become less obvious and more dangerous when weapons are always at a high state of readi- ness - solid - fuel ...
... past , a country would carry out a com- mitment because , it could plausibly be argued , the consequences of not doing so were worse than those of coming to the ally's assistance . This is no longer self - evident . In each of the last ...
... past , the United States has often defeated its purposes by committing itself to one particular form of European unity — that of federalism . It has also complicated British membership in the Common Market by making it a direct ...
... past , every period of détente has proved stillborn . There have been at least five periods of peaceful coexistence since the Bolshevik seizure of power , one in each decade of the Soviet state . Each was hailed in the West as ushering ...
... past , it may be well to learn some of its lessons : we should not again confuse a change of tone with a change of heart . We should not pose false inconsistencies between allied unity and détente ; indeed , a true relaxation of ...