Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security

Who Killed Détente? The Superpowers and the Cold War in the Middle East, 1969–77

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  • Galen Jackson
| Winter 2019/20

Summary

The conventional wisdom that the Soviet Union was responsible for the demise of détente in the 1970s is deeply flawed. In the case of Middle East, for example, it was the United States, not the Soviet Union, that refused to cooperate to achieve an Arab-Israeli agreement, a decision that contributed to détente’s ultimate collapse.

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Galen Jackson, “Who Killed Détente? The Superpowers and the Cold War in the Middle East, 1969–77,” International Security, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Winter 2019/20), pp. 129–162, doi.org/10.1162/ISEC_a_00369.

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