"The book addresses an important subject ('detente') and one in which there is considerable interest...It balances well politics, economics, and the personalities/mindsets of the principal figures (Brandt, Nixon, and Kissinger)." - Robert Mark Spaulding, University of North Carolina

Despite the consensus that economic diplomacy played a crucial role in ending the Cold War, very little research has been done on the economic diplomacy during the crucial decades of the 1970s and 1980s. This book fills the gap by exploring the complex interweaving of East-West political and economic...