Publisher's Synopsis
Since the early 1950s, there has been widespread agreement in the United States concerning the desirability of improving relations with the Soviet Union. Policymakers have often disagreed, however, about what such improvement would require and how to best pursue it. From Eisenhower to Reagan, successive American administrations fluctuated between believing that the US had to transform the Soviet Union in order to live with it and believing that the US had to coexist with the Soviet Union as it was. This book is designed to appeal to students of politics and international relations.
