ABSTRACT
The Soviet-US summits in Geneva and in Reykjavik, meetings at the ministerial and experts levels, the attempts to ease progress to a settlement of disputes, gave rise to the hope that the international atmosphere would change for the better before the decade ends. The easiest way would be to write that a crisis or conflict is engendered by a policy which is based on the use or threat of force as the main means of settling international disputes. The seeming simplicity of the causes which engender international crises with all the ensuing grievous consequences should not mislead anyone. An international crisis is a situation which has grown in the soil of real contradictions and has resulted from the impossibility to reconcile them and which, therefore, quickly leads the confronting sides to military conflict. The said measures helped to stabilise international relations and safeguard them against crises involving nuclear powers.
