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Simon, E. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1174-8650 and Simon, A.,
2017.
The Soviet use of the Moscow–Washington hotline in the Six-Day War.
Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 15 (3), pp. 284-305.
ISSN 1479-4012
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Abstract
This article examines the role the Moscow–Washington Hotline played in the 1967 Six-Day War, focusing on the Soviet side. We argue that the Soviet Union used the Direct Communication Link much more broadly than had been intended when the Hotline was agreed on in 1963 mainly because Moscow did not assign the Hotline any special diplomatic significance. We also show that the Hotline is a poor channel for crisis negotiations, and its efficacy as a communication tool is compromised if regular diplomatic channels cannot match its speed. Finally, we challenge the existing debate in the historiography of the Six-Day War, arguing for the importance of studying the implications of Soviet behaviour rather than Soviet intentions.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of Transatlantic Studies | ||||
| Creators: | Simon, E. and Simon, A. | ||||
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||
| Date: | 2017 | ||||
| Volume: | 15 | ||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||
| ISSN: | 1479-4012 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||
| Date Added: | 13 Aug 2019 10:18 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2019 10:18 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/37260 |
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