Soviet Foreign Policy in Transition

by Edited by Roger E. Kanet , Deborah N. Miner , Tamara J. Resler

• ISBN13: 9780521063418
• ISBN10: 0521063418
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of tables

Preface

Introduction

The Soviet Union and the International Political System

Soviet reform in international perspective

The Soviet Union And Europe

The changing Soviet-East European relationship

Soviet-Nordic relations in the era of perestroika and new thinking

Soviet signals to the mordic countries during the Lithuanian crisis of 1990

Neutrality and new thinking

The Soviet Union and the Developing World: Global Trends

From new thinking to the fragmentation of consensus in Soviet foreign policy: the USSR and the developing world

Soviet new thinking on national liberation movements: continuity and change

The Soviet Union and the Developing World: Regional and Country Case Studies

Soviet policy in Central America during the Gorbachev period

The Soviet reassessment of socialist orientation and the African response

Soviet policy in the Middle East: Gorbachev's imprint

The implications of perestroika for the Third World, particularly Asia

The Soviet Union and Indochina

Gorbachev's Southeast Asia policy: new thinking for a new era?

The impact of Gorbachev's new thinking on Soviet policy toward South Korea

Conclusion

The paradox in new political thinking in Soviet foreign policy

Index

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