
Reaching Out to Moscow
From Confrontation to Cooperation
Praeger Publishers Inc
Published on 30. December 1991
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-275-94073-7 (ISBN)
Description
Developments in the Soviet Union necessitate a radical restructuring of U.S.-Soviet relations and the security system that underpins them. Marshall Brement succinctly and masterfully chronicles the history of this relationship and offers a prescription for change in this important book. The United States can influence the power struggle within the USSR by holding out the prospect of going beyond the wary cooperation that our government espouses, to a relationship that embodies comprehensive partnership. It is only through such a relationship that we can achieve a genuine new world order guaranteeing security for decades to come and at the same time sloughing off the burden of excessive defense costs that this nation can no longer afford. The new grand strategy outlined here would demand much of the Soviets, but also offers much. It has a nuclear component, a conventional arms component, an economic component, a Third World component, and a Western Europe component. It sets out clear benchmarks and a method for moving ahead.
Past Soviet and American security policies are so interrelated that they must be changed together, not separately or in sequence. To accomplish this change, the fear doctrine of nuclear deterrence that underlies our entire defense philosophy must be abandoned. The sophistication and power of modern conventional weapons makes it possible for both sides to reduce, even eliminate, nuclear weapons. While establishing a program to eliminate nuclear weapons, we must concurrently lay down benchmarks as to what exactly will be required from both Moscow and Washington to make such a transformation possible, restructure our armed forces to make them less threatening to each other, and engage in a broad-ranging program of economic investment and cooperation in solving critical global problems. These proposals are radical, even visionary. Nevertheless, only through a comprehensive program can a fundamentally different U.S.-Soviet relationship be achieved. This book is addressed not only to the specialist in Soviet and security affairs, but also to a general audience of informed citizens.
Past Soviet and American security policies are so interrelated that they must be changed together, not separately or in sequence. To accomplish this change, the fear doctrine of nuclear deterrence that underlies our entire defense philosophy must be abandoned. The sophistication and power of modern conventional weapons makes it possible for both sides to reduce, even eliminate, nuclear weapons. While establishing a program to eliminate nuclear weapons, we must concurrently lay down benchmarks as to what exactly will be required from both Moscow and Washington to make such a transformation possible, restructure our armed forces to make them less threatening to each other, and engage in a broad-ranging program of economic investment and cooperation in solving critical global problems. These proposals are radical, even visionary. Nevertheless, only through a comprehensive program can a fundamentally different U.S.-Soviet relationship be achieved. This book is addressed not only to the specialist in Soviet and security affairs, but also to a general audience of informed citizens.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
479 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-94073-7 (9780275940737)
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Persons
MARSHALL BREMENT is currently Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the National Defense University. He also is a Resident Consultant to the Center for Naval Analyses and a member of the Department of Defense's Special Operations Policy Advisory Group. Fluent in Russian and seven other languages, Brement has served two tours in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and has been the President's Senior Advisor on Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council Staff. He is the author of a study for the Rand Corporation, Organizing Ourselves to Deal with the Soviets, A former Ambassador to Iceland, Brement is the translator and editor of two books of modern Icelandic poetry.
Content
The Challenge The Four-Stranded Rope The Soviet Quest for Perfect Security The New Thinking The Case for Caution The Need for Action Meeting the Challenge Testing the USSR--The Seventeen Points Testing the United States--The Nuclear Con Game Restructuring Conventional Forces The European Dimension The Open-End Game--Superpower Cooperation in a Post-Perestroika World The Economic Dimension The United States Government--A Mystery Wrapped in a Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma The Common European Home Bibliography Index