http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/detente Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:39:13 -0400 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:39:13 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1439/detente-studies-in-cold-war-international-history-questions-unmarked By Jittipat Poonkham - Détente is generally understood as a relaxation of international tension. However, there are many conceptions and characteristics of détente: superpower détente (such as ‘Nixinger's, Leonid Brezhnev's or Mao Zedong/ Zhou Enlai's détente), European détente (such as Charles de Gaulle's détente and Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik) and, to a lesser extent, small powers' détente. Détente connotes different things to different states (and statesmen) at different time. That is, it is one concept with many interpretations. The article examines the... Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1439/detente-studies-in-cold-war-international-history-questions-unmarked