On the European side, engineering a new spirit of détente will be tough.

It is difficult to know where this uneasy transatlantic détente of 2008 will lead.

Nixon, a vitriolic anti Communist, opened relations with Mao s China and started détente with the Soviet Union.

While I was foreign minister of the Republic of Korea, my Government and I strongly advocated détente with the North.

The first was held in 1994 in Budapest, the year the group transformed itself into a new, post détente organization.

The talks with the FARC evolved as regional détente was followed by an ambitious initiative to address the root causes of the Colombian conflict.

The establishment of more nuclear weapon free zones would encourage détente and reduce political room for manoeuvre for the United States and its allies.

That commitment is also a sign of the beginning of a process of détente and of an improvement in the situation in the best interests of all.

Détente helped to keep the competition from spilling over into conflict as it exposed the Communist world to Western ideas of freedom and capitalism along with their benefits.

CAMBRIDGE Last month s terrorist assault in Mumbai targeted not only India s economy and sense of security. Its broader goal was to smash the India Pakistan détente that has been taking shape since 2004.

In that connection, we welcome the actions undertaken by the coalition Government and the local authorities in the framework of the process of détente and of improvement in the socio economic situation of the inhabitants of Kosovo.

If this assessment is accurate, the obvious next question is how much further Abe and Xi can move toward détente, thereby appeasing their business sectors, without losing the backing of nationalists, who tend to view the bilateral relationship as a zero sum game.

As the Soviet Union continued to maintain tight control over its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, the Cold War gave way to Détente and a more complicated pattern of international relations in the 1970s in which the world was no longer clearly split into two clearly opposed blocs.

His was the age of Ostpolitik and détente, of the first global oil crisis, of economic recession, stagflation, and the return to Europe of mass unemployment. His generation confronted the scourge of domestic terrorism and witnessed revolution in Iran, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the rise of Solidarity in Poland.