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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... American design . Our deepest chal- lenge will be to evoke the creativity of a pluralistic world , to base order on political multipolarity even though overwhelming military strength will remain 24 Foreign Relations , 1969-1976 , Volume I.
... strength for effective political use ; every increment of power was — at least theoretically - politically effective . The minimum aim was to assure the impermeability of the territory . Until the Second World War , a state's strength ...
... strength ; major increases in power are possible entirely through devel- opments within the territory of a sovereign state . China gained more in real military power through the acquisition of nuclear weapons than if it had conquered ...
... strength existed . Then , indeed , it was impossible for one country to achieve dominance if several others com- bined to prevent it . But this was not the case in the era of the super- powers of the forties and fifties . Outside Europe ...
... strength by combining with states suffering similar disabilities . In these circumstances , SEATO and CENTO have grown moribund as instruments of collective action . Because the United States has often seemed more eager to engage in the ...