Summary
Description: Notes on future relations with the US including background notes on US introversion and social and economic problems resulting in a reduction of overseas commitments, the fragmentation of the monetary and trading relations between the industrial countries of the free world and the risk of a slide into protectionism. SALT and the Soviet Union achieving nuclear parity with the US as well as the increasing tendency for bilateral dealings between the US and the Soviet Union, the growth in Japanese economic strength and the strains in Japanese-US relations, the emergence of China, Soviet efforts to exploit the possible weakening of US determination to defend Western Europe, the enlargement of the European Community.
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The Nixon years, 1969-1974.