De la confruntare la negociere. Richard Nixon la Moscova, mai 1972
From Confrontation to Detente. Richard Nixon in Moscow, May 1972

Summary/Abstract: The “structure of peace” imagined by the Nixon Administration confronted the diplomacy of the 70s with a real challenge: harmonizing strategic and economic interests with the ideological barriers, very inflexible in the Soviet case and even more so in the case of China. The plans of the Nixon administration pursued mainly to restore the position of the USA as the prime mediator in the international arena. The SALT I agreement signed on May 26, 1972 certainly was one of the American president’s major diplomatic successes in Moscow. The two big powers seemed to find solutions also to the other issues on their agenda, except Vietnam. Thus the USSR obtained the most favored nation status. The agreements concluded in Moscow in May 1972 ushered in a new stage in international relations: coexistence prevailing over expansion.

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