The limits of détente
Subtitle: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1969-1973
By: Craig Daigle
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780300167139
Subjects: Cold War; Arab-Israeli conflict; Foreign relations
Description: In the first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis, but also from policies adopted in both Washington and Moscow.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From confrontation to negotiation, January-September 1969; title: The Rogers plan, October-December 1969; title: The first Soviet threat, January-May 1970; title: Crisis on the Suez, June-September 1970; title: Fighting for Sadat, October 1970-August 1971; title: The race to the summit, September 1971-May 1972; title: Bombshells and back channels, June 1972-February 1973; title: The contradictions of Leonid Brezhnev, March-October 1973; title: The crisis of détente, October 1973.