This dissertation argues that through a secret backchannel, US National Security Adviser and later Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador to the US Anatoly Dobrynin formed a relationship which provided the empathy needed to bridge many of the ideological differences between their two countries. It examines transcripts of their telephone conversations from 1969-1977 when the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in detente, or a relaxation of tensions, during the Cold War. The dissertation concludes that the Kissinger-Dobrynin backchannel serves as a case study of the effectiveness of back channels in international diplomacy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1087 |
| Date | 01 January 2013 |
| Creators | Stackhouse, Daniel S., Jr. |
| Publisher | Scholarship @ Claremont |
| Source Sets | Claremont Colleges |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | CGU Theses & Dissertations |
| Rights | © 2013 Daniel S. Stackhouse, Jr., default |
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