Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev

ISBN-13: 9780202363264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 536 str.

Jr. Fleron; Erik Hoffmann; Robbin Laird

Opis

This survey of writings on the debates about and events relating to Soviet foreign policy concentrates on the Gorbachev period. Changes in Soviet theory and foreign policy decision making are covered in the first section. Twelve articles examine Gorbachevs policy towards a number of different geographic regions, and several more assess the permanence of Gorbachevs foreign policy changes.

Spis treści

Introduction; V: Perspectives and Policymaking; 14: The Revolution in Soviet Foreign Policy; 15: New Thinking or New Tactics in Soviet Foreign Policy?; 16: Changing Soviet Elite Views on the International System and Soviet Foreign Policy; 17: Inventing the Soviet National Interest; 18: Linkages between Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policy under Gorbachev; 19: The Role of the CPSU International Department in Soviet Foreign Relations and National Security Policy; 20: The KGB and Soviet Foreign Policy; 21: Is Gorbachev Changing the Rules of Defense Decision-Making?; VI: Policy and Performance; 22: The Soviet Military in Transition; 23: New Thinking on Security Issues; 24: The Soviet Union: A Player in the World Economy?; 25: Gorbachev’s Foreign Policy: A Diplomacy of Decline *; 26: Gorbachev’s Global Doughnut: The Empire with a Hole in the Middle; 27: Gorbachev and the West; 28: U.S.-Soviet Relations: Threshold of a New Era; 29: The New Soviet Approach to Europe *; 30: The Changing Role of the Soviet Union in the Pacific; 31: Moscow’s Third World Strategy; 32: The USSR and the Third World in the 1980’s; 33: Moscow’s U.N. Policy; VII: Retrospect and Prospect; 34: The Gorbachev Revolution: A Waning of Soviet Expansionism?; 35: The Soviet Threat in the 1990s; 36: Idealpolitik; 37: Points of Mutual Advantage: Perestroika and American Foreign Policy; 38: The Gulf Crisis and the Future of Gorbachev’s Foreign Policy Revolution; 39: The Evolution of Soviet Foreign Policy and the Future

O autorze

Erik Hoffmann