Document No. 84: National Security Directive (NSD) 23, “United States Relations with the Soviet Union”, September 22, 1989
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Soviet Union, Eastern Europe international relations Cold War diplomacy notes speeches conferences' transcriptions History Political Science Public Admin. & Development HIS010010 POL011010 HBJD JPSDSujets proches
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Svetlana Savranskaya et al., « Document No. 84: National Security Directive (NSD) 23, “United States Relations with the Soviet Union”, September 22, 1989 », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.ezbtme
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This National Security Directive, representing the formal expression of U.S. foreign policy at the highest levels, was apparently drafted as early as April 1989, and its conclusions duly reflect how divorced U.S. policy in this period is from the radical transformations occurring in Eastern Europe. Among the document’s hesitant predictions: “[t]he character of the changes taking place in the Soviet Union leads to the possibility that a new era may be now upon us. We may be able to move beyond...