Date of Award
Fall 2013
Degree Type
Open Access Dissertation
Degree Name
History, PhD
Program
School of Arts and Humanities
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Janet Farrell Brodie
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
William Jones
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Joshua Goode
Terms of Use & License Information
Rights Information
© 2013 Daniel S. Stackhouse, Jr.
Keywords
Cold War, US-Soviet detente, backchannel, relationships, empathy, secrecy
Subject Categories
Arts and Humanities | Diplomatic History | European History | History | United States History
Abstract
This dissertation argues that through a secret backchannel, US National Security Adviser and later Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador to the US Anatoly Dobrynin formed a relationship which provided the empathy needed to bridge many of the ideological differences between their two countries. It examines transcripts of their telephone conversations from 1969-1977 when the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in detente, or a relaxation of tensions, during the Cold War. The dissertation concludes that the Kissinger-Dobrynin backchannel serves as a case study of the effectiveness of back channels in international diplomacy.
DOI
10.5642/cguetd/86
Recommended Citation
Stackhouse, Daniel S. Jr.. (2013). Detente or Razryadka? The Kissinger-Dobrynin Telephone Transcripts and Relaxing American-Soviet Tensions, 1969-1977.. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 86. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/86. doi: 10.5642/cguetd/86
