U.S. policy toward Latin Amerika over the pas 160 years has gone through a number of distinct phases and has shifted from neglect to intervention, from cooperation to conflict.
This volume examines the shifting relationship between the peoples and governments of the United States and China during the last century. By focusing on personalities and cultures as well as politics, the author explains the misperceptions that have driven the two countries together and apart.
A collection of essays, reviews, and speeches examining the changes in the world and in the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and Russia during the twentieth century.
The title of this volume suggests itself from Stevenson's own phrasing in an address at a dinner held in his honor and celebrating the creation of the Stevenson Foundation in the Herbert Lehman Institute of Ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Because of his lifetime search for such an ethic, Stevenson's statement is pertinent: "War is no longer rational, we say, yet the respon…
Anatoly Dobrynin arrived in Washington in 1962. He was only forty-three, the youngest man ever to serve as Soviet ambassador to the United States. Amazingly he remained in Washington through the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Dobrynin became the main back channel for the White House and the Kremlin to exchange ideas, negotiate in secret, and set up summit mee…