Triangular politics

NYT, 27 November 1968, p. i. This is discussed at greater length in the next chapter, in relation to triangular politics. 

This is consistent with Schurmann s argument that the key objective of triangular politics was to regain a position of leadership and centrality for the United States in international politics. See Schurmann, Foreign Politics of Richard Nixon, p. 2,. 

TRIANGULAR POLITICS, JUNE I972 TO FEBRUARY I973 FORMER ENEMY TO TACIT ALLY ... 

A good appraisal of the complexities of triangular politics can be found in Ross, ed., China, the Vnited States, and the Soviet Union. See especially Stephen Sestanovich, US Policy Toward the Soviet Union, 1970-1979 The Impact of China, which argues that improved U.S.-PRC relations had relatively little effect on U.S.-Soviet relations during the 1970S and in fact failed to restrain Moscow s adventurism, which culminated in the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. 

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