The Soviet Union and the Strategy of Non-Alignment in the Third World

by Roy Allison

• ISBN13: 9780521102506
• ISBN10: 0521102502
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This study investigates the overall Soviet conception of non-alignment in the Third World and assesses Soviet policy in relation to this issue. The author argues that official Soviet encouragement for the policy of non-alignment and Soviet support for the programme of the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1960s and 1970s have been part of a broad Soviet strategy aimed at weakening and ultimately supplanting Western military and political ties with Third World states. Soviet officials have been reluctant, therefore, to view neutrality, nuetralism or non-alignment as concepts or policies which denote an intermediate status between the blocs. This study assesses the implications of such perceptions for Soviet policy and considers how far Soviet leaders have accepted the independent foreign policy aspirations of non-aligned states.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Soviet view of non-alignment in the international order

The Soviet Union and the search for international security by the non-aligned states

Soviet policy and neutralisation in the Third World

Soviet policy and military alignment in the Third World

Conclusion

Notes

Select bibliography

Index

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