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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.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part One Introduction -- Chapter One Conceptualizing Change in Soviet National Security -- Part Two The Context of Change -- Chapter Two Military Crisis and Social Change in Russian and Soviet History -- Chapter Three The Soviet Debate over "New Thinking" and the Restructuring of U.S.-Soviet Relations -- Chapter Four The Soviet Economy: Growth, Decay, and Reform -- Part Three The Change Agents -- Chapter Five Modernization and the Military-Civil Competition for Resources: Gorbachev's Dilemma -- Chapter Six Technology and Soviet National Security -- Chapter Seven Domestic Politics and Gorbachev's Security Policy -- Chapter Eight Institutional Change and Soviet National Security Policy -- Part Four Change in the Elements of Soviet National Security -- Chapter Nine Gorbachev's Concept of Reasonable Sufficiency in National Defense -- Chapter Ten Changes in Soviet National Security Policy toward Western Europe under Gorbachev -- Chapter Eleven Changes in Soviet Security Policy toward Eastern Europe and the Warsaw Pact -- Chapter Twelve Changing Soviet National Security Policy in Relations with the Third World -- Chapter Thirteen Arms Control in Soviet National Security Policy under Gorbachev -- Part Five Conclusions and Implications -- Chapter Fourteen Toward an Explanation of Change in Soviet National Security Policy and Implications for the United States -- List of Contributors -- Index.