detente.
mid-1975, Tucker contends, Kissinger recognized that his detente policy had failed. Since then, he has backed higher military spending and tougher anti-Soviet policies. But, ironically, his Democratic suc- cessors accepted and extended Kissinger's original approach.
According to Tucker, Carter took office convinced that new condi- tions-chiefly, the nuclear stalemate and the West's economic depend- ence on the Third World-made the superpowers' military strength largely irrelevant. The...