Soviet Foreign Policy in a Changing World / / ed. by Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin F. Laird.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©1986
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:Reprint 2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME
  • I. ISSUES
  • 1. The Soviet Union: Her Aims, Problems, and Challenges to the West
  • 2. The Stalinist Legacy in Soviet Foreign Policy
  • 3. The Nature of Soviet Power
  • 4. The New Dynamics of the Soviet Empire: From Optimism to Pessimism
  • 5. Soviet Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
  • 6. What Do Scholars Know about Soviet Foreign Policy?
  • 7. Soviet Ideology, Risk-Taking, and Crisis Behavior
  • II. POLICYMAKING AND IMPLEMENTATION
  • 8. Anatomy of Policymaking
  • 9. Soviet Perspectives on "The Scientific-Technological Revolution" and International Politics
  • 10. The Foreign Policy Establishment
  • 11. Decision Making for Arms Limitation in the Soviet Union
  • 12. The CPSU Central Committee's International Department
  • 13. "Active Measures" in Soviet Strategy
  • III. MILITARY POWER
  • 14. Soviet Perspectives on Security
  • 15. Military Power and Political Purpose in Soviet Policy
  • 16. The Satisfaction of Operational Objectives
  • 17. Soviet Strategy toward Northern Europe and Japan
  • 18. The Soviet-Afghan War: The First Four Years
  • IV. THE UNITED STATES
  • 19. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1976
  • 20. The Sources of American Conduct: Soviet Perspectives and Their Policy Implications
  • 21. The Soviet Union and Strategic Arms
  • 22. Selling the Russians the Rope? Soviet Technology Policy and U.S. Export Controls
  • 23. U.S. and Soviet Agriculture: The Shifting Balance of Power
  • 24. The New Soviet Challenge and America's New Edge
  • V. WESTERN EUROPE
  • 25. The USSR and Western Europe
  • 26. Soviet Nuclear Weapons in Europe
  • 27. Soviet Economic Policies in Western Europe
  • 28. Capitalist Contradictions and Soviet Policy
  • VI. EASTERN EUROPE
  • 29. Soviet Policy toward Eastern Europe: Interests, Instruments, and Trends
  • 30. The Soviet Union and the East European Militaries: The Diminishing Asset
  • 31. The Political Economy of Soviet Relations with Eastern Europe
  • 32. Soviet Empire: Alive but Not Well
  • VII. THE FAR EAST
  • 33. Asia in the Soviet Conception
  • 34. Siberian Development: The Strategic Implications
  • 35. Soviet Policy toward China
  • 36. The Moscow-Beijing Détente
  • VIII. THE THIRD WORLD
  • 37. Soviet Geopolitical Momentum: Myth or Menace? Center for Defense Information
  • 38. Soviet Arms Trade with the Noncommunist Third World
  • 39. The USSR and the Third World: Economic Dilemmas
  • 40. The Correlation of Forces and Soviet Policy in the Middle East
  • 41. The Soviet Union and the Peace Process since Camp David
  • 42. Soviet Options and Opportunities in Southern Asia
  • 43. New Trends in Soviet Policy toward Africa
  • 44. The Soviets and Latin America: A Three Decade U.S. Policy Tangle
  • IX. THE FUTURE
  • 45. Can the Soviet Union Reform?
  • 46. The Changing Soviet Union and the World
  • 47. Socialist Stagnation and Communist Encirclement
  • 48. Soviet Global Power and the Correlation of Forces
  • 49. KAL 007: Perceptions and Politics
  • 50. What the Russians Really Want: A Rational Response to the Soviet Challenge
  • 51. The Future of Yalta
  • 52. Managing the U.S.-Soviet Relationship over the Long Term