1st Edition

The United States And The Ussr In A Changing World Soviet And American Perspectives

By Andrei Bochkarev, Don L Mansfield Copyright 1992
412 Pages
by Routledge

412 Pages
by Routledge

412 Pages
by Routledge

As the Cold War draws to a close, new issues inevitably have begun to surface in U.S.-Soviet relations. This reader brings together Soviet and U.S. perspectives on the broad range of challenges that both nations now face. Within the context of a "debate" format that presents parallel U.S. and Soviet views, these timely readings illustrate areas of cooperation and conflict and weigh policy... Read more
Foreword -- Preface -- Copyright Information -- Introduction -- The Evolution of Soviet-American Relations in the Post-War Era -- The U.S.-Soviet Rivalry in Perspective -- Looking Back: The Long Peace -- The New Thinking and Soviet-American Relations -- The End of the Cold War -- Ending the Cold War -- The End of the Cold War, Not History -- Soviet and American Foreign Policies After the Cold War -- "New Thinking" in Superpower Foreign Policies -- The Policy of New Thinking in a Changing World -- Domestic and Economic Aspects of Gorbachev's Foreign Policy -- The Bush Foreign Policy -- The Role of Ideology -- Dateline Moscow: Burying Lenin -- Is an Ideological Concert Possible? -- National Security Issues -- Military Strategy and Doctrine -- How Much Defense Is Sufficient? -- Gorbachev's Strategy and Western Security: Illusions Versus Reality -- Arms Control -- Deep Reductions in Strategic Arms -- Arms Control and the Future of U.S.-Soviet Relations -- The Role of the United Nations -- Moscow's U.S. Policy -- The USSR's New Approach to the U.N. -- Economic Rivalry and Cooperation -- Trading with the Communists -- The Soviet Union Is Opening Itself to the World -- Europe After the Cold War -- Superpower Disengagement in Europe -- The New Soviet Approach to Europe -- The Problems of the USSR's European Policy -- Stability and Security in the New Europe -- NATO's Future in a New Europe: An American Perspective -- The Common European Home and Mutual Security -- Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War -- Arms Control in Europe -- Soviet Arms Control Objectives in Europe -- Is a "Third Zero" Attainable? -- Third World Issues -- Superpower Rivalry in the 1990s -- Reappraisal of USSR Third World Policy -- The Future of Soviet-American Relations -- Where Should We Go from Here? -- America Without the Cold War

Biography

Andrei G. Bochkarev, Don L. Mansfield