Western Perceptions Of Soviet Goals

Preface -- Introductory Remarks: Mutual Perceptions of Long-Range Political Goals as an Obstacle to Trust Creation -- >>Perestroika<< of Ideology? -- Long Term Policy Goals as Elements of National Threat Perceptions: Some Remarks on Their Changing Role in the European Context -- A Cold War View of the U.S.S.R.: Konrad Adenauer's Perception of Soviet Politics -- Coping with the Prospect of Endless Conflict: Dilemmas of US Policies and the Salience of Long-Term Objectives -- The Nature and Patterns of Western Thought about the East-West Conflict -- Threat Perceptions and Shifts of Public Attitudes, 1960s-1980s -- Meaning and Perception Patterns: A Preliminary Logico-Semantic Analysis -- Fear of the Soviet Union: Individual and Cultural Perceptions -- The >>New Political Thinking<< on Soviet Foreign Relations -- The Rediscovery of Russian Culture: Its Social and Political Significance -- Confidence-Building Measures and Western Perceptions of Soviet Long-Range Goals -- Round-Table Discussion -- The World on the Road to the Year 2000: Comparison of Trends in Western and Soviet Society in the Coming 15 Years -- Theory of the >>Pugwash Process<< or: Possibilites and Impossibilities of Overcoming Ideological Differences -- Contrasting U.S. Perceptions of the Military Balance in Europe and the Management of Long-Term Competition with the Soviet Union -- The Strategic Dimensions of Soviet Economic Reform -- Long-Term Goals in Soviet Science and Technology Policy: Confrontation or Cooperation with the West? -- Ideology and Public Opinion: The Role of Soviet Education -- Appendix -- Expansionism and Secretive Decision-Making Two Key Problems of the Soviet System -- Soviet >>New Thinking<< on the World and Foreign Policy -- Developments in Soviet Political Thinking in Foreign Policy