Power and protest review by Josh
Power and protest by Jeremi Suri
Review by Josh100/100Read February 1, 2005
Détente was the result of tacit agreement between the major powers to focus on controlling their own citizens.
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"Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest. Profoundly disturbed by increasing social and political discontent, Cold War powers united on the international front, in the policy of detente. Though reflecting traditional balance of power considerations, detente thus also developed from a common urge for stability among leaders who by the late 1960s were worried about increasingly threatening domestic social activism." "In the early part of the decade, Cold War…
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