Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev

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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 Gorbachev's policy towards a number of different geographic regions, and several more assess the permanence of Gorbachevs foreign policy changes. Contents Introduction • Erik P. Hoffmann V. Perspectives and Policymaking 14. The Revolution in Soviet Foreign Policy • Robert Legvold 15. New Thinking or New Tactics in Soviet Foreign Policy • John W. Coffey 16. Changing Soviet Elite Views on the International System and Soviet Foreign Policy • Allen Lynch 17. Inventing the Soviet National Interest • Stephen Sestanovich 18. Linkages between Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policy under Gorbachev • Alex Pravda 19. The Role of the CPSU International Department in Soviet Foreign Policy Relations and National Security Policy • Mark Kramer 20. The KGB and Soviet Foreign Policy • Amy W. Knight 21. Is Gorbachev Changing the Rules of Defense Decision-Making? • Condoleezza Rice VI. Policy and Performance 22. The Soviet Military in Transition • William E. Odom 23. New Thinking on Security Issues • Susan L . Clark 24. The Soviet Union: A Player in the World Economy? • Akio Kawato 25. Gorbachev’s Foreign Policy: A Diplomacy of Decline • Stephen Sestanovich 26. Gorbachev's Global Doughnut: The Empire with a Hole in the Middle • Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. 27. Gorbachev and the West • Pierre Hassner 28. U.S.-Soviet Relations: Threshold of a New Era • Arnold L . Horelick 29. The New Soviet Approach to Europe • F. Stephen Larrabee 30. The Changing Role of the Soviet Union in the Pacific • Donald S. Zagoria 31. Moscow’s Third World Strategy • Alvin Z. Rubinstein 32. The USSR and the Third World in the 1980’s • David E. Albright 33. Moscow’s U.N. Policy • Thomas G. Weiss and Meryl A. Kessler VII. Retrospect and Prospect 34. The Gorbachev Revolution: A Waning of Soviet Expansionism? • Jack Snyder 35. The Soviet Threat in the 1990s • Colin S. Gray 36. Idealpolitik • Stanley Kober 37. Points of Mutual Advantage: Perestroika and American Foreign Policy • James A. Baker, III 38. The Gulf Crisis and the Future of Gorbachev’s Foreign Policy Revolution • Robert Legvold 39. The Evolution of Soviet Foreign Policy and the Future • Robbin F. Laird Index