Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991: Classic and Contemporary Issues

ISBN-13: 9780202241715 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 874 str.

Jr. Frederic J. Fleron; Erik P. Hoffmann; Robbin F. Laird

Opis

The purpose of this anthology is to deepen Western understanding of the sources and substance of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. Authoritative analysts here explore significant issues in Soviet foreign relations from the era of the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War to the period of reform that preceded the final collapse of the Soviet system. The volume is designed for courses in Soviet political history, diplomatic history, comparative foreign policy, and the mainstream of international relations.

Spis treści

I: Classic Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy; Introduction; I: History; 1: Soviet Foreign Policy Aims and Accomplishments from Lenin to Brezhnev*; 2: Soviet Perspectives on Security*; 3: The Soviet Conception of Détente*; II: Methodology; 4: Soviet Foreign Policy and World Politics*; 5: Science and Sovietology: Bridging the Methods Gap in Soviet Foreign Policy Studies*; 6: A Framework for Analyzing Soviet Foreign Policy*; 7: Perceptions and Behavior in Soviet Foreign Policy*; III: Ideology and Behavior; 8: Ideology and Power Politics: A Symposium*; 9: Anatomy of Policymaking*; 10: Soviet Ideology, Risk-Taking, and Crisis Behavior*; 11: Truth, Reality, and Power: The World through Soviet Eyes'*; IV: Prospect and Retrospect; 12: The Sources of Soviet Conduct*; 13: Sources of Soviet Foreign Conduct*; Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy; 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

Jr. Fleron