Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, and Moscow, 1985-8
Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, and Moscow, 1985-8
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev ushered in a new era for Soviet-American relations at four summits in 1985–8. Reagan’s efforts to re-engage the USSR led to the Geneva summit, where the two leaders ignited a spark of mutual trust. At Reykjavik their shared abhorrence of nuclear weapons brought them close to a radical arms reduction agreement. Although they pulled back from the brink in 1986, at the Washington summit the following year they signed the INF treaty, which not only addressed the issue of Soviet SS-20s but also abolished a whole category of nuclear weapons for the first time in the Cold War. Conservatives in the Reagan administration blocked conclusion of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) at the 1988 Moscow summit, but the president’s repudiation there of his ‘evil empire’ rhetoric was a turning point in transcending the ideological divide.
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Hunt, Jonathan
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Reynolds, David
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September 2016
Hunt, Jonathan
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Reynolds, David
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Hunt, Jonathan and Reynolds, David
(2016)
Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, and Moscow, 1985-8.
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Spohr, Kristina and Reynolds, David
(eds.)
Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990.
Oxford, GB.
Oxford University Press, .
(doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198727507.003.0007).
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Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev ushered in a new era for Soviet-American relations at four summits in 1985–8. Reagan’s efforts to re-engage the USSR led to the Geneva summit, where the two leaders ignited a spark of mutual trust. At Reykjavik their shared abhorrence of nuclear weapons brought them close to a radical arms reduction agreement. Although they pulled back from the brink in 1986, at the Washington summit the following year they signed the INF treaty, which not only addressed the issue of Soviet SS-20s but also abolished a whole category of nuclear weapons for the first time in the Cold War. Conservatives in the Reagan administration blocked conclusion of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) at the 1988 Moscow summit, but the president’s repudiation there of his ‘evil empire’ rhetoric was a turning point in transcending the ideological divide.
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Accepted/In Press date: 15 August 2016
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