Provocările destinderii Est-Vest: Richard Nixon și Europa
The Challenge of East-West Détente. Richard Nixon in Europe

Summary/Abstract: The eight days Richard Nixon’s European journey, at the beginning of 1969, had a double objective. On the one hand he evaluated the position of Western European governments toward the United States’ initiatives in international politics. On the other hand the United States wished for a normalisation of its rapports with the Soviet Union. At mid ‘60s, NATO believed that the “Eastern threat” was lowering and new plans for cooperation between the two military blocs could be drafted. The Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia and the Brezhnev doctrine changes NATO’s attitude toward the Soviet Union.

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