Great Negotiations John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Adlai Stevenson; and Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, Anatoly Dobrynin, and Valerian Zorin. Describes the 1986 Reykjavík Summit and the United States' Ronald Reagan and Russia's Mikhail Gorbachev. Great Negotiations Great Negotiations: Agreements that Changed the Modern World is a 2010 book by Fredrik Stanton which presents narratives from modern diplomacy. Stanton's book "Great Negotiations: Agreements that Changed the Modern World" was published in 2010. The book was noted as unusual for focusing on negotiating content and the diplomatic process, rather than the direct major policy results or the diplomatic developments which resulted from the negotiations
Mikhail Gorbachev suspension of the deployment of SS-20 missiles in Europe as a move towards resolving intermediate-range nuclear weapons (INF) issues. Later that year, in September, Gorbachev proposed that the Soviets and Americans both cut their nuclear arsenals in half. He went to France on his first trip abroad as Soviet leader in October. November saw the Geneva Summit between Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan. Though no concrete agreement was made, Gorbachev and Reagan struck a personal relationship and decided to hold further meetings. January 1986 would see Gorbachev make his boldest international move so far, when he announced his proposal for the