ABSTRACT
The first is the emergence of the Soviet Union as a military power equal to the United States in strategic nuclear capacity, possessing local military superiority in Europe and established as a global, no longer merely a regional power, by its naval strength and capacity for military intervention in the Third World. There is a need to focus attention upon the emergent grand alliance against the Soviet Union, and raise certain questions about it. Earner Schilling's chapter shows the reader how far, in their absorption with the irrelevant issue of "parity", SALT negotiations were from promoting the classic goals of arms control, even when they were under way during the 1970s. The abortive intervention by Egypt in the attempt to relieve hostages a Larnaca in Cyprus is also of interest, in that it showed that the doctrine of a right to intervene to protect citizens abroad is no longer the monopoly of the Western powers.
