Soviet foreign policy in a changing world / Robbin F. Laird and Erik P. Hoffmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laird, Robbin F., 1946- author.

Hoffmann, Erik P., 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1975-1985.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXIV, 969 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2021

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [1986]

Language Note:

In English.

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783112418109

3112418107

OCLC:

1243310978