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Although a realistic appraisal of Soviet defense efforts is crucial to strategic planning and foreign policy analysis, knowledge in this area is limited to incomplete Soviet figures and unsatisfactory U.S. estimates. Using newly available sources of economic, scientific, and technical military information, an international team of defense authorities here reviews the current knowledge of Soviet defense expenditure, and introduces the most recent and original alternative methods of understanding and appraisal. What emerges is a fascinating account of what is perhaps the single most important...

This book looks at the new themes and directions that have characterised Soviet foreign policy during the "first" Gorbachev era. Various aspects are studied in detail, such as the shift of attention away from relations with America as being their prime foreign policy concern.