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
Presidency of Ronald Reagan negotiations with the United States over arms control. As his influence on domestic affairs waned during his second term, Reagan increasingly focused on relations with the Soviet Union. Reagan recognized the change in the direction of the Soviet leadership under Gorbachev, and shifted to diplomacy, with a view to encourage the Soviet leader to pursue substantial arms agreements. Reagan's personal mission was to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons, which according to Jack F. Matlock Jr., Reagan's ambassador to Moscow, he regarded as "totally irrational, totally inhumane, good for nothing but killing, possibly destructive of life on earth and