Assume that a nation is pursuing a given foreign policy and that we
are concerned with the way in which it will act in the future. We
may want to make a forecast--but then to what extent is the present
policy of a nation a valid guide to its future behavior? Or we may
want to influence the nation to change its course--can we succeed?
In other words, will the policy change or persist in the face of
new conditions or negative feedback? Kjell Goldmann identifies the
factors that may have an impact on whether a specific foreign
policy is likely to endure or to change and develops them into a
theory of foreign policy stability. He then uses this theory to
explore the reasons why West German-Soviet detente during the 1970s
proved to be more enduring than the improvement in relations
between the United States and the Soviet Union. Finally, he
outlines a hypothetical scenario for a fully successful process of
detente stabilization and examines the extent to which this
scenario is realistic. The book ends with some thought about how to
conduct a policy aimed at stable detente with an adversary.
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