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Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals): The USSR Confronts Global Interdependence book cover

1st Edition

Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals) The USSR Confronts Global Interdependence

By Walter Clemens Copyright 1990
414 Pages
by Routledge

414 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1989, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West relations from a zero-sum struggle to a state of peaceful competition and mutual security. In order to answer this question, the author compares advances and setbacks in arms control and security affairs... Read more

Part 1: Gorbachev’s Inheritance: Burden’s of the Past  1. The Need for Change: What has the Kremlin Achieved in Foreign Policy since 1917  2. Models for Change: Alternative Approaches, 1917-85  Part 2: Pressures for Change, 1917-85  3. Driving Forces in the Soviet Crucible: Arms Control Imperatives  4. Arms Control Imperatives in the Social Arena  5. The Third Rome Confronts the Club of Rome: "Globalistika"  6. "Life Itself" versus the Party Line on Global Issues  Part 3: Gorbachev’s New Thinking : Security with Interdependence  7. A Revolution in Soviet Ideology: Speaking the Unthinkable  8. Actions Louder than Words: Doing the Unthinkable  9. What Makes Arms Accords Possible? Necessary and Helpful Conditions  10. Can the Kremlin be Trusted? Can Washington?  Part 4. Creating the Future  11. Alterrnative Futures: Détente, Confrontation, Transformation?  12. Managing Soviet-US Relations: Challenges and Choices

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Walter Clemens

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