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Richard Nixon
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Nixon and His Key Foreign Policy Adviser
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Whoops

• Nixon and Henry Kissinger

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Nixon-Kissinger Decision Making

• NSC Process

• RN-HAK Process

President
Nixon
Depts
NSC
Depts
Kissinger
NSC Staff
NSC Staff
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Why Détente?

• Strategic parity
• Sino-Soviet Split
• Viet Nam Syndrome

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Strategic Parity

• Stockpiles

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Stalin (and Twin)
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Soviet LeadersGeneral Secretary of the CPSU

• Nikita Khrushchev Leonid Brezhnev
• 1956-1964 1964-1982

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Sino-Soviet Split

• Mao Zedong
• Chairman of CCP

• Zhou Enlai
• Premier and FM

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Prague Spring 1968
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Soviet-Chinese Border Crisis 1969

• Amur River
• Ussuri River Khabarovsk

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Viet Nam Syndrome

• Nixon recognizes this
• Nixon Doctrine
• Remarks July 25, 1969 (see Q and A)
• Address to the nation, Nov. 3, 1969

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Detente

1. Still containment
2. New Goal Change USSR behavior
3. Old-school Balance of Power

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Détente Policies Mutual Deterrence

• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
• Interim Agreement on Offensive Arms
• Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

US
USSR
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May 1972 Summit in Moscow
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Détente Policies Triangular Diplomacy

• US
• USSR PRC

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Kissinger to China, July 1971
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Nixon-Mao Summit in China, February 1972

• Shanghai Communique

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China and Taiwan
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Views of Israel/Palestine
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Post-1967
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Detail of 1990s