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Cold war patriot and statesman, Richard M. Nixon

edited by Leon Friedman and William F. Levantrosser ; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University

(Contributions in political science, no. 312)

Greenwood Press, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The only apparent consensus about the Nixon Presidency is that his accomplishments in the foreign policy area far outshadowed those in the domestic arena. The advances for which he was responsible--in particular, the opening to China--brought the most significant improvement in foreign relations among the great powers in decades. The Nixon diplomacy worked, while many of his domestic programs failed. This was true, the editors of this Hofstra-sponsored volume maintain, because there was more of a sense of realism and caution in his dealings with foreign governments and a willingness to compromise and accommodate their interests--a tolerance he often lacked in the domestic area. This volume outlines the main components of the Nixon foreign policy, beginning with the significant effort to bring China into the world community. The manner in which the Vietnam war was ended is examined, as are the evolution of American policy in the Middle East and the efforts at detente. With essays and observations from scholars and participants in the making of that policy, this volume is significant reading for all students of American foreign policy and the presidency.

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Preface Foreign Policy Initiatives Overall Assessment The Nixon Foreign Policy by Henry A. Kissinger, Introduced by Han Xu The Opening to China President Nixon and Sino-U.S. Relations by Han Xu The Asian Balance and Sino-American Rapprochement during the Nixon Administration by Robert G. Sutter Discussant Jerome A. Cohen Ending the Vietnam War The American Withdrawal from Vietnam: Some Military and Political Considerations by William M. Hammond Secret Commitments in President Nixon's Foreign Policy: The National Security Council and Nixon's Letters to South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu by Nguyen Tien Hung and Jerrold L. Schecter Discussants Frances FitzGerald Guenter Lewy Robert Miller Detente and the Soviet Union The Rise and Stall of Detente, 1969-1974 by Robert D. Schulzinger Discussants Aleksandr M. Belonogov Hedrick Smith Helmut Sonnenfeldt The Middle East and Energy Policy Peace or Oil: The Nixon Administration and Its Middle East Policy Choices by Gideon Doron Discussants Alfred L. Atherton Hermann Frederick Eilts Jo-Ann Hart Dale R. Tahitnen The Foreign Policy Process Defense and National Security The Defense Policies of the Nixon Administration: A Decade of Neglect or Prudent Readjustment? by Lawrence J. Korb The Making of the All-Volunteer Armed Forces by Martin Anderson Discussants Martin Binkin Adam Yarmolinsky Foreign Policy Development The Nixon Doctrine as History and Portent by Earl C. Ravenal Richard Nixon as Summit Diplomat by Elmer Plischke Continuities and Contradictions in the Nixon Foreign Policy by Kenneth Thompson Discussants Lloyd S. Etheredge Roger Morris The War Powers Resolution Nixon vs. the Congress: The War Powers Resolution, 1973 by Philip J. Briggs The War Powers Resolution: An Intersection of Law and Politics by Nathan N. Firestone Discussants Harold H. Koh Burt Neuborne

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