Table of Contents
Frontmatter — CONTENTS — INTRODUCTION — CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME — I. ISSUES — 1. The Soviet Union: Her Aims, Problems, and Challenges to the West — 2. The Stalinist Legacy in Soviet Foreign Policy — 3. The Nature of Soviet Power — 4. The New Dynamics of the Soviet Empire: From Optimism to Pessimism — 5. Soviet Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy — 6. What Do Scholars Know about Soviet Foreign Policy? — 7. Soviet Ideology, Risk-Taking, and Crisis Behavior — II. POLICYMAKING AND IMPLEMENTATION — 8. Anatomy of Policymaking — 9. Soviet Perspectives on "The Scientific-Technological Revolution" and International Politics — 10. The Foreign Policy Establishment — 11. Decision Making for Arms Limitation in the Soviet Union — 12. The CPSU Central Committee's International Department — 13. "Active Measures" in Soviet Strategy — III. MILITARY POWER — 14. Soviet Perspectives on Security — 15. Military Power and Political Purpose in Soviet Policy — 16. The Satisfaction of Operational Objectives — 17. Soviet Strategy toward Northern Europe and Japan — 18. The Soviet-Afghan War: The First Four Years — IV. THE UNITED STATES — 19. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1976 — 20. The Sources of American Conduct: Soviet Perspectives and Their Policy Implications — 21. The Soviet Union and Strategic Arms — 22. Selling the Russians the Rope? Soviet Technology Policy and U.S. Export Controls — 23. U.S. and Soviet Agriculture: The Shifting Balance of Power — 24. The New Soviet Challenge and America's New Edge — V. WESTERN EUROPE — 25. The USSR and Western Europe — 26. Soviet Nuclear Weapons in Europe — 27. Soviet Economic Policies in Western Europe — 28. Capitalist Contradictions and Soviet Policy — VI. EASTERN EUROPE — 29. Soviet Policy toward Eastern Europe: Interests, Instruments, and Trends — 30. The Soviet Union and the East European Militaries: The Diminishing Asset — 31. The Political Economy of Soviet Relations with Eastern Europe — 32. Soviet Empire: Alive but Not Well — VII. THE FAR EAST — 33. Asia in the Soviet Conception — 34. Siberian Development: The Strategic Implications — 35. Soviet Policy toward China — 36. The Moscow-Beijing Détente — VIII. THE THIRD WORLD — 37. Soviet Geopolitical Momentum: Myth or Menace? Center for Defense Information — 38. Soviet Arms Trade with the Noncommunist Third World — 39. The USSR and the Third World: Economic Dilemmas — 40. The Correlation of Forces and Soviet Policy in the Middle East — 41. The Soviet Union and the Peace Process since Camp David — 42. Soviet Options and Opportunities in Southern Asia — 43. New Trends in Soviet Policy toward Africa — 44. The Soviets and Latin America: A Three Decade U.S. Policy Tangle — IX. THE FUTURE — 45. Can the Soviet Union Reform? — 46. The Changing Soviet Union and the World — 47. Socialist Stagnation and Communist Encirclement — 48. Soviet Global Power and the Correlation of Forces — 49. KAL 007: Perceptions and Politics — 50. What the Russians Really Want: A Rational Response to the Soviet Challenge — 51. The Future of Yalta — 52. Managing the U.S.-Soviet Relationship over the Long Term
