Soviet Foreign Policy in a Changing World

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME -- I. ISSUES -- 1. The Soviet Union: Her Aims, Problems, and Challenges to the West -- 2. The Stalinist Legacy in Soviet Foreign Policy -- 3. The Nature of Soviet Power -- 4. The New Dynamics of the Soviet Empire: From Optimism to Pessimism -- 5. Soviet Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy -- 6. What Do Scholars Know about Soviet Foreign Policy? -- 7. Soviet Ideology, Risk-Taking, and Crisis Behavior -- II. POLICYMAKING AND IMPLEMENTATION -- 8. Anatomy of Policymaking -- 9. Soviet Perspectives on "The Scientific-Technological Revolution" and International Politics -- 10. The Foreign Policy Establishment -- 11. Decision Making for Arms Limitation in the Soviet Union -- 12. The CPSU Central Committee's International Department -- 13. "Active Measures" in Soviet Strategy -- III. MILITARY POWER -- 14. Soviet Perspectives on Security -- 15. Military Power and Political Purpose in Soviet Policy -- 16. The Satisfaction of Operational Objectives -- 17. Soviet Strategy toward Northern Europe and Japan -- 18. The Soviet-Afghan War: The First Four Years -- IV. THE UNITED STATES -- 19. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1976 -- 20. The Sources of American Conduct: Soviet Perspectives and Their Policy Implications -- 21. The Soviet Union and Strategic Arms -- 22. Selling the Russians the Rope? Soviet Technology Policy and U.S. Export Controls -- 23. U.S. and Soviet Agriculture: The Shifting Balance of Power -- 24. The New Soviet Challenge and America's New Edge -- V. WESTERN EUROPE -- 25. The USSR and Western Europe -- 26. Soviet Nuclear Weapons in Europe -- 27. Soviet Economic Policies in Western Europe -- 28. Capitalist Contradictions and Soviet Policy -- VI. EASTERN EUROPE -- 29. Soviet Policy toward Eastern Europe: Interests, Instruments, and Trends -- 30. The Soviet Union and the East European Militaries: The Diminishing Asset -- 31. The Political Economy of Soviet Relations with Eastern Europe -- 32. Soviet Empire: Alive but Not Well -- VII. THE FAR EAST -- 33. Asia in the Soviet Conception -- 34. Siberian Development: The Strategic Implications -- 35. Soviet Policy toward China -- 36. The Moscow-Beijing Detente -- VIII. THE THIRD WORLD -- 37. Soviet Geopolitical Momentum: Myth or Menace? Center for Defense Information -- 38. Soviet Arms Trade with the Noncommunist Third World -- 39. The USSR and the Third World: Economic Dilemmas -- 40. The Correlation of Forces and Soviet Policy in the Middle East -- 41. The Soviet Union and the Peace Process since Camp David -- 42. Soviet Options and Opportunities in Southern Asia -- 43. New Trends in Soviet Policy toward Africa -- 44. The Soviets and Latin America: A Three Decade U.S. Policy Tangle -- IX. THE FUTURE -- 45. Can the Soviet Union Reform? -- 46. The Changing Soviet Union and the World -- 47. Socialist Stagnation and Communist Encirclement -- 48. Soviet Global Power and the Correlation of Forces -- 49. KAL 007: Perceptions and Politics -- 50. What the Russians Really Want: A Rational Response to the Soviet Challenge -- 51. The Future of Yalta -- 52. Managing the U.S.-Soviet Relationship over the Long Term