How can the United States best take advantage of the new atmosphere in US-Soviet relations to build a more durable co-operative relationship with their principal adversary? What lessons can be drawn from other experiments with detente? By what means, and with what restrictions, should they engage their Soviet competitors to exploit developing opportunities while minimizing attendant risks? And, specifically, what kinds of concrete American initiatives are likely to nourish the growing Soviet appetite for contact, cooperation, and inclusion with the West? These are some of the questions that were examined in a project launched by the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute School of Advanced International Studies, of which this volume is the end result.