The Domestic Context of Soviet Foreign Policy
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Studies of the Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University Seweryn Bialer, Series Editor
The Domestic Context of Soviet Foreign Policy
edited by Seweryn Bialer
This collective volume highlights those aspects of Soviet internal dynamics that influence foreign policy and international relationships. The authors almost uniformly reflect a growing awareness of the importance of internal factors as a critical determinant shaping not only the Soviet Unions position in the international arena, but also the making and effectiveness of Soviet foreign policy. A central premise of this volume is that both the range of options in Soviet foreign policymaking and the predispositions among the policymakers toward the selection of particular options are influenced and circumscribed by the dynamics of Soviet social, economic, and political development.
Seweryn Bialer is a professor of political science and director of the Research Institute on International Change at Columbia University. He is a specialist in Soviet domestic politics, with emphasis on contemporary Soviet elites. His publications include Stalin and His Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II and Stalins Successors: Leadership, Stability, and Change in the Soviet Union.
First published 1981 by Westview Press
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Contents
, Adam Ulam
, Franklyn Griffiths
, Hannes Adomeit
, Grey Hodnett
, Timothy J. Colton
, Jeremy Azrael
, Walter D. Connor
, Herbert S. Levine
, Warren W. Eason
, Morris Bornstein
, Arcadius Kahan
, Paul Marer
, Andrzej Korbonski
, Alexander Dallin
, Seweryn Bialer
This volume grew out of a project that the Research Institute on International Change at Columbia University undertook for the Department of State. I hereby acknowledge the help received from the State Department in making this volume possible.
Because of space limitations, a number of original papers prepared for the State Department project could not be included. I gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the authors of these papers: Abraham Brumberg, Dissent and Soviet Foreign Policy; Ben Fischer, The Soviet Political System and Foreign Policy-Making in the Brezhnev Era; Edward Keenan, Muscovite Political Folkways: Some Prolegomena to the Study of Great Russian Political Culture; Robbin Laird, The Scientific-Technical Revolution and Soviet Ideology; and Boris Rabbot, Soviet Travelling Professionals: An Inside View. I also acknowledge the advice and contributions of those who participated in two meetings organized for the project: Vernon Aspaturian, Coit Blacker, George Breslauer, Lawrence Caldwell, Paul Cocks, Arnold Horelick, Jerry Hough, Gail Lapidus, Robert Legvold, Harry Rigby, Alvin Rubinstein, Morton Schwartz, Dimitri Simes, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Jan Triska, Jiri Valenta, and Donald Zagoria.
Throughout the preparation of this volume I received invaluable help from Alexander Dallin, who, aside from contributing one of the summary chapters, always offered sound advice and counsel. Finally, I thank those whose roles were crucial in editing this volume: Richard Coffman, Michael Klecheski, Cynthia Roberts, and Penny Yee, without whose efforts, hard work, and patience this volume would never have been finished. Cynthia Roberts and Michael Klecheski did the bulk of the original editing of the chapters; Richard Coffman and Michael Klecheski reviewed all of the copy editing and the page proofs of the book. Their work is deeply appreciated and their expertise and solidness in Soviet affairs is deeply admired. I am quite fortunate to be able to rely on the help of students of such caliber.
Seweryn Bialer
Hannes Adomeit, of the Siftung Wissenschaft und Politik, specializes in Soviet foreign policy.
Jeremy Azrael, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, specializes in Soviet politics and comparative Communism.
Seweryn Bialer is director of the Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University. He is a specialist in Soviet domestic policies, with emphasis on contemporary Soviet elites.
Morris Bornstein, professor of economics at the University of Michigan, specializes in the Soviet and East European economies.
Timothy J. Colton is a professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, whose field of specialty is Soviet military developments.
Walter D. Connor, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, is also affiliated with the East European-USSR Studies of the Foreign Service Institute in the State Department. He has written on social stratification and political change.
Alexander Dallin, professor of political science and history at Stanford University, specializes in Soviet and Russian foreign policy.
Warren W. Eason is professor of economics at Ohio State University. His specialties are the Soviet economy and Soviet population and manpower.
Franklyn Griffiths, professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, specializes in Soviet politics.
Grey Hodnett, professor of political science at York University, Canada, is on leave at the Central Intelligence Agency. His fields of specialty are current Soviet politics and nationality policies.
Arcadius Kahan, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, specializes in agricultural economics and the economic history of Russia and Europe.
Andrzej Korbonski, professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializes in comparative politics of East Central Europe.
