Soviet National Security Policy Under Perestroika

Soviet National Security Policy Under Perestroika
Author: George E. Hudson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000280446

This book, first published in 1990, examines the nature and causes of the changes to Soviet national security policy under Gorbachev. Changes in leadership and institutional arrangements, economic policy, ideology and military involvement all fostered new patterns of cooperation and competition. Authors look at the historical, economic and cultural contexts of change and proceed to a discussion of change agents, such as modernization, technology and domestic politics. Specific components of foreign and military policy, such as arms control and relations with Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact and the Third World, are also examined.

Perestroika and Soviet National Security

Perestroika and Soviet National Security
Author: Michael MccGwire
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In this major new book, Michael MccGwire, author of Military Objectives in Soviet Foreign Policy, describes the radical rethinking of soviet national security that, together with the decision to democratize Soviet politics, prompted these developments. MccGwire was among the first to recognize the shift and foresee the implications. He masterfully places the redefinition of Soviet security requirements in the broader context of worldwide foreign policy and traces the implications for the United States.

Military Objectives in Soviet Foreign Policy

Military Objectives in Soviet Foreign Policy
Author: Michael MccGwire
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2010-12-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780815718482

This study concentrates on the military roots of Soviet policy. It concentrates on how planning for the contingency of a world war shapes and distorts Soviet policy while producing a military posture and structure of forces that appear to the West as being far in excess of any legitimate defense needs. The focus is on the military-technical aspects of doctrine, which is the responsibility of the military to implement. The study does not dwell on the decisions that the Soviet political leaders would face in the course of a war except to note how the hierarchy of objectives would influence those decisions.

Russian National Security

Russian National Security
Author: Michael H. Crutcher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2001
Genre: National security
ISBN:

This is an anthology of papers presented at a conference titled "Russian National Security: Perceptions, Policies, and Prospects" conducted from 4-6 December 2000. The book organizes the papers into six sections - The Russian National Security Community, Russia and Europe, Russian Policy Towards the Caucasus and Central Asia, Russia and Asia, Russia and the United States, and Russia's Military Transformation.

Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking

Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking
Author: Derek Leebaert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521407694

This book, first published in 1991, analyses the unprecedented changes, as well as the troubling continuities, that characterized Soviet military thinking during the early 1990s.

Soviet Foreign Economic Policy and International Security

Soviet Foreign Economic Policy and International Security
Author: Eric A. Stubbs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

More than half a decade has passed since Gorbachev launched his "prerestroika" programme to reform the Soviet Union, but the struggle between reformers and conservatives continues to rage while the final outcome, and even the goals of the programme, remains a mystery. Whatever the outcome of this transformation, its impact will reverberate well beyond the borders of the USSR to shape US security and commercial policies into the next century. This edited volume brings together original essays by US-Soviet relations scholars and international business and security experts to explore the many complex and critical issues that the United States must confront in developing its commercial and security policies for the next decade.

The Soviet Challenge in the Gorbachev Era

The Soviet Challenge in the Gorbachev Era
Author: Aspen Strategy Group (U.S.)
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

An analysis of western attitudes towards Gorbachev's reforms and a discussion of the policies that should be adopted by the US and Europe. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR