1. For a good general overview of Soviet foreign policy, see Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Russia and the World, 1917–1991 (London: Arnold, 1998). On the rise and fall of détente, see Raymond L. Garthoff, Détente and Confrontation: Soviet—American Relations From Nixon to Reagan (revised edn, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994); Mike Bowker and Phil Williams, Superpower Détente: A Reappraisal (London: Sage, 1988); and Harry Gelman, The Brezhnev Politburo and the Decline of Détente (Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 1984). For the Soviet perspective, see Georgi Arbatov, Cold War or Detente? The Soviet Viewpoint (London: Zed Books, 1983). There are also two useful internet sites, the Cold War International History Project which can be found at ; and .