This book provides an insider’s account of the negotiations behind the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), one of the most important diplomatic efforts of the Cold War. Written by Strobe Talbott, a prominent journalist and foreign policy analyst, the book details the political context, key personalities, and complex bargaining strategies involved in the U.S.–Soviet negotiations. It o…
A revelatory inside account of the Reagan administration's handling--to stalemate--of nuclear arms control details personality clashes, power struggles, and the ideological gamesmanship that have precluded productive negotiations
Every nation, of course, has its own peculiarities and distinctive facets. Down the ages, however, Russia has suffered more than most from attempts simply to superimpose Western values and to transplant Western experience into a country that has followed its own route, on the fringes of Europe and Asia, Christendom and Islam, ever since Prince Vladimir of Kievan Rus chose the Orthodox Church of…