Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy
By: Erik Hoffmann
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 521
ISBN-13: 9781315080468
Subjects: Foreign relations; Diplomatic relations
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction; title: part V PERSPECTIVES AND POLICYMAKING; title: chapter 14 The Revolution in Soviet Foreign Policy; title: chapter 15 New Thinking or New Tactics in Soviet Foreign Policy; title: chapter 16 Changing Soviet Elite Views on the International System and Soviet Foreign Policy; title: chapter 17 Inventing the Soviet National Interest; title: chapter 18 Linkages between Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policy under Gorbachev; title: chapter 19 The Role of the CPSU International Department in Soviet Foreign Policy Relations and National Security Policy; title: chapter 20 The KGB and Soviet Foreign Policy; title: chapter 21 Is Gorbachev Changing the Rules of Defense Decision-Making?; title: part VI POLICY AND PERFORMANCE; title: chapter 22 The Soviet Military in Transition; title: chapter 23 New Thinking on Security Issues; title: chapter 24 The Soviet Union: A Player in the World Economy?; title: chapter 25 Gorbachev's Foreign Policy: A Diplomacy of Decline; title: chapter 26 Gorbachev's Global Doughnut: The Empire with a Hole in the Middle; title: chapter 27 Gorbachev and the West; title: chapter 28 U.S.-Soviet Relations: Threshold of a New Era; title: chapter 29 The New Soviet Approach to Europe; title: chapter 30 The Changing Role of the Soviet Union in the Pacific; title: chapter 31 Moscow's Third World Strategy; title: chapter 32 The USSR and the Third World in the 1980's; title: chapter 33 Moscow's U.N. Policy; title: part VII RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT; title: chapter 34 The Gorbachev Revolution: A Waning of Soviet Expansionism?; title: chapter 35 The Soviet Threat in the 1990s; title: chapter 36 Idealpolitik; title: chapter 37 Points of Mutual Advantage: Perestroika and American Foreign Policy; title: chapter 38 The Gulf Crisis and the Future of Gorbachev's Foreign Policy Revolution; title: chapter 39 The Evolution of Soviet Foreign Policy and the Future.