Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991: Classic and Contemporary Issues

ISBN-13: 9781138533349 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 868 str.

Jr. Fleron

Opis

The purpose of this anthology is to deepen Western understanding of the sources and substance of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union

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