Soviet Foreign Policy in Transition

by Roger E. Kanet (Editor), Deborah N. Miner (Editor), Tamara J. Resler (Editor)

Overview

This volume presents a wide range of papers on Soviet foreign policy relations by leading scholars both in the West and in developing countries. They cover Soviet relations with Eastern Europe and Scandinavia as well as the question of Soviet neutrality and the new political thinking. A substantial part of the study analyzes the effects of recent changes in Soviet foreign policy on developing countries. This makes the volume most unusual and, as such, it will be widely read by students and specialists of Soviet studies and international relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521413657
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/02/1992
Series:	International Council for Central and East European Studies
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.29(h) x 1.18(d)

Table of Contents

List of tables; Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Soviet Union and the International Political System: 1. Soviet reform in international perspective; Part II. The Soviet Union And Europe: 2. The changing Soviet-East European relationship; 3. Soviet-Nordic relations in the era of perestroika and new thinking; 4. Soviet signals to the mordic countries during the Lithuanian crisis of 1990; 5. Neutrality and new thinking; Part III. The Soviet Union and the Developing World: Global Trends: 6. From new thinking to the fragmentation of consensus in Soviet foreign policy: the USSR and the developing world; 7. Soviet new thinking on national liberation movements: continuity and change; Part IV. The Soviet Union and the Developing World: Regional and Country Case Studies: 8. Soviet policy in Central America during the Gorbachev period; 9. The Soviet reassessment of socialist orientation and the African response; 10. Soviet policy in the Middle East: Gorbachev's imprint; 11. The implications of perestroika for the Third World, particularly Asia; 12. The Soviet Union and Indochina; 13. Gorbachev's Southeast Asia policy: new thinking for a new era?; 14. The impact of Gorbachev's new thinking on Soviet policy toward South Korea; Part V. Conclusion: 15. The paradox in new political thinking in Soviet foreign policy; Index.