Gorbachevs Agenda
An
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gorbachevs agenda : changes in Soviet domestic and foreign policy /
edited by Susan L. Clark : with an introduction by Robbin F. Laird.
p. cm. (Westview special studies on the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8133-7774-9
1. Soviet UnionPolitics and government1985 2. Soviet Union
Foreign relations19853. Soviet UnionMilitary policy.
4. Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931.I. Clark, Susan L.,
1959. II. Series
DK288.G6661989
947.854dc20
89-37752
CIP
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01328-8 (hbk)
To Mom
Contents
, Robbin F. Laird
PART I
GORBACHEVS REFORM EFFORTS AND EMERGING OPPOSITION
Astrid von Borcke
Elizabeth Teague
, Nieves Bregante
PART II
ECONOMIC AND TRADE REFORM
, Hans-Hermann Hhmann
, Marie Lavigne
Heinrich Vogel
PART III
THE MILITARY CHALLENGE
, Timothy Colton
, Christopher Donnelly
PART IV
THE EUROPEAN AGENDA
, Robbin F. Laird
, Roy Allison
, Herv Coutau-Bgarie
PART V
REGIONAL ISSUES
, Theodore Friedgut
, Gerald Segal
, Susan L. Clark
, Kenneth Maxwell, Susan L. Clark and Betsy A. Jacobs
Guide
Above all, I am grateful to the people who made this book possible and made it a pleasure to produce--the contributors themselves. I am also deeply indebted to Robbin Laird and Bert Salter for their critical role in developing the project that made many of these chapters possible. To the people at the Institute for Defense Analyses who have supported this effort, particularly General William Y. Smith, William Schultis and Victor Utgoff, I owe many thanks. In addition, Betsy Jacobs and Kathleen OBoyle offered invaluable assistance in the preparation and editing of the manuscript, while Erika Tildon and Carole Hrabosky provided superb typing and administrative support. I have also been very lucky to work with Susan McEachem, whose professionalism and kindness has been much appreciated. Finally, I would like to thank my family and friends for being so patient and supportive.
It should also be noted that this book does not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute for Defense Analyses or the U.S. government.
Susan L. Clark
Susan L. Clark is a Research Staff member in the Strategy, Forces and Resources Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, VA. Ms. Clarks other publications include: coauthor (with Robbin F. Laird), The USSR and the Western Alliance (Boston, MA: Unwin & Hyman, 1989); Who Will Staff NATO? ORBIS , Fall 1988; Japans Role in Gorbachevs Agenda, The Pacific Review , Fall 1988; and co-author (with Robbin F. Laird), Britains Security Policy: The Modern Soviet View. Occasional Paper No. 31 (London: Institute for European Defence & Strategic Studies, 1987).
Roy Allison is a Lecturer in Soviet defense policy and international security at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. Dr. Allisons publications include: co-editor (with Phil Williams), Superpower Competition and Crisis Prevention in the Third World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989); The Soviet Union and the Strategy of Non-Alignment in the Third World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988); and Current Soviet Views on Conventional Arms Control in Europe, Arms Control , September 1988.
Nieves Bregante has been at the Spanish Ministry of Defense since 1983. Ms. Bregante is assigned to the Soviet Studies Department where she is in charge of domestic policy in the Soviet Union.
Timothy Colton will be a Research Fellow at the Russian Research Center at Harvard University effective September 1989. Dr. Colton has previously taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His publications include: The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union (New York; Council on Foreign Relations, 1986); co-editor (with Thane Gustafson), The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in the Soviet Union (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1989, forthcoming); and What Ails the Soviet System? in Erik P. Hoffmann, ed., The Soviet Union in the 1980s (New York: Academy of Political Science, 1984).
Herv Coutau-Bgarie is a judge, lawyer, and one of Frances leading naval strategists. Among the books Dr. Coutau-Bgarie has published are: Geostrategie du Pacifique (Paris: Institut Francais des Relations Internationales-Economica, 1987); La puissance maritime. Castex et la strategie navale (Paris: Fayard, 1985); and La puissance maritime sovietique (Paris: Institut Francais des Relations Internationales-Economica, 1983).
Christopher Donnelly is Head of the Soviet Studies Research Center at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. In 19891990 Mr. Donnelly will also serve as NATOs Sovietologist in Residence. He has published numerous articles on Soviet military affairs, as well as Red Banner: The Soviet Military System in Peace and War (Surrey: Janes Information Group, 1988).
Theodore Friedgut is an Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Dr. Friedgut has published on Soviet domestic and foreign policy, Soviet activity in the Middle East, and Soviet policy toward the Jewish minority in the USSR. He is the author of Iuzovka and Revolution (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989) and Political Participation in the USSR (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979).
Hans-Hermann Hhmann is an analyst at the Bundesinstitut fur ostwissenschaftliche und Internationale Studien in Cologne. Dr. Hhmann is the co-author (with Hannes Adomeit) of Die Sowjetunion als Militarmacht (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1987) and co-editor (with Heinrich Vogel and Alec Nove), Economics and Politics in the USSR: Problems of Interdependence (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986).
