Between Realism and Liberalism: American Foreign Policy in the 1970s

Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution

Description

Plenary lecture which reviews patterns in the development of American diplomacy during the 1970s: from moves to extricate US troops from Vietnam and to reduce the costs of the Cold War, via the unravelling of the detente and trllateral strategies pursued by the Nixon and Carter administrations respectively, to the renewed Cold War stance adopted by the incoming Reagan administration at the start of the following decade.
Period10 Aug 1995
Event titleNordic Association for American Studies conference: The United States and the World
Event typeConference
LocationOslo, NorwayShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • United States
  • diplomacy
  • 1970s
  • Vietnam
  • detente
  • Richard Nixon
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Trilateralism