The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the Third World

by Roger E. Kanet (Editor)

Overview

In this volume an international team of contributors examines various aspects of recent Soviet East European policy toward the Third World. The first group of essays are concerned with broad aspects of Soviet policy, including political relations, Soviet perceptions of insurgency and counter-insurgency, and the Soviet use of propaganda in the Third World. Part Two is concerned largely with economic affairs, and the concluding section includes specific case studies of Soviet relations with Syria and India.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521344593
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/23/1988
Series:	International Council for Central and East European Studies
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

List of figures; List of tables; Foreword R. C. Elwood; Preface Roger E. Kanet; Part I. The Third World In Soviet Foreign Policy: 1. The Soviet Union and the Third World from Khrushchev to Gorbachev: the place of the Third World in evolving Soviet global strategy Roger E. Kanet; 2. Revolutionary change in the Third World: recent Soviet reassessments Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier; 3. Anti-Soviet insurgencies: growing trend or passiing phase? Mark N. Katz; 4. The Soviet Union and the New World information order Paul Roth; 5. Soviet propaganda and the process of national liberation Roger E. Kanet; Part II. CMEA Economic Involvement in the Third World: 6. Soviet economic policy in the Third World Heintich Machowski and Siegfried Schultz; 7. Eastern Europe and the Third World: economic interactions and policies Laure Després; 8. The non-European members of the CMEA: a model for developing countries? Giovanni Graziani; Part III. The Soviet Union in the Middle East and South Asia: 9. Soviet policy towards Syria in the Andropov era Robert O. Freedman; 10. Indo-Soviet security relations Jyotirmoy Banerjie; Index.