Radical Reform in Soviet Defence Policy

This is an edited collection of papers on military and strategic issues from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies. This book focuses on the change which Soviet defence policy and defence thinking underwent towards the end of the 1980s and the prospects for further reform in the early 1990s. Chapters assess Soviet debate on national security policy, the size of the Soviet defence budget, the impact of new military technologies, strategic nuclear arms, conventional force reductions and the options for European security. This book is edited by the author of "Finland's Relations with the Soviet Union", "The Soviet Union and the Strategy of Non-Alignment in the Third World" and "Superpower Competition and Crisis Prevention in the Third World". This book is designed to be of interest to students of politics, Soviet and East European studies, defence and international studies.