7. The Political Stabilization of Détente

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. LIST OF TABLES ix
5. PREFACE xi
6. ABBREVIATIONS xiii
7. Introduction xv
8. PART ONE. CHANGE AND STABILITY IN FOREIGN POLICY: A THEORETICAL SKETCH
9. 1. Foreign Policy Stability as a Research Problem 3
10. 2. Foreign Policy Stabilizers: An Inventory 26
11. 3. Policy Stabilization as a Process 70
12. PART TWO. DETENTE: EVALUATION OF AN EXPERIMENT
13. 4. The 1970s as an Experiment 81
14. 5. The International Stabilization of Détente 91
15. 6. The Cognitive Stabilization of Détente 117
16. 7. The Political Stabilization of Détente 134
17. CHAPTER 8. The Administrative Stabilization of Détente 173
18. 9. Evaluation of the Detente Experiment 187
19. PART THREE. THE STABILIZATION OF DETENTE: A SCENARIO
20. 10. Dtente in Anarchy 199
21. Appendix: A Note on the Utility of Weak Theory and Weak Tests 221
22. REFERENCES 227
23. INDEX 241