Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Khenry and Anatol
  • Precedents and back-channel games, 1968-1970
  • At a crossroads: Cienfuegos, SALT, and Germany-Berlin
  • Playing a game, finding a lever: back channels and Sino-American rapprochement
  • Divergent channels: a watershed on the subcontinent
  • Vietnam in U.S.-Soviet back channels, November 1971-April 1972
  • Cancellation crises
  • Conclusion: at the summit, achieving détente.