The West and the Soviet Union : politics and policy

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The West and the Soviet Union : politics and policy

edited by Gregory Flynn with Richard E. Greene ; foreword by Thomas L. Hughes

Macmillan in association with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1990

  • : pbk

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Includes index

Soviet Military Doctrine and Western Policy (editor)

Public Images of Western Security (co-author)

Nato's Northern Allies: The National Security Policies of Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway (editor)

The Public and Atlantic Defense (co-editor)

The Internal Fabric of Western Security (co-author)

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ISBN 9780333534991

内容説明

This book is a comparative study of the role that domestic factors play in shaping the form and content of Western policy toward the Soviet Union. It demonstrates that these factors are at the heart of many of the Allied conflicts in security policy over the past few years and are likely to remian so as the West seeks to coordinate its approach to Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The opening chapter explores the general relationship between domestic politics and the evolution of postwar Western attitudes towards the Soviet Union. It demonstrates how the ideological character of the Soviet adversary helped to create an absolute image of the Soviet threat, and how this gave rise to a very special consensus during the Cold War - one that helped determine which political forces would govern in the West and what kinds of issues could be legitimately debated. As the Soviet threat became more relative with time and changing strategic conditions, political controversy over policy has once again emerged. This has made the coordination of policy more difficult at both the national and alliance levels. Indeed, it has made harmony in the Western approach to the Soviet Union very much a function of how compatible the domestic political necessities of different allies are, above all those of the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. Six country studies follow on Great Britain, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. The decision to have a Japanese study was based on that country's importance and the conviction that more needs to be understood about the factors influencing Japanese policy, despite the fact that there are few parallels between the evolutions that have taken place in Japan and the other countries. Each of the country studies examines the evolution of policy toward the Soviet Union in light of changing domestic contexts. Although the emphasis varies according to national peculiarities, the chapters concentrate in analyzing the same two clusters of factors: images, that is the origins of assumptions that inform policy; and process, how domestic political structures influence the formulation of policy. The analysis of images concentrates on how countries perceive the various elements of the security policy equation: the evolution of self-image; images of their allies and their positions in the Western Alliance; images of the Soviet Union, the threat it poses, and how both have changed over the years; and the image of the means to security in light of changes in all these variables. The analysis of process focuses on the domestic factors which have been important to formulating policy toward the Soviet Union and how their influence has been brought to bear.

目次

  • Politics and policies, Gregory Flynn
  • Anglo-Soviet relations - a world order problem, Michael Clarke
  • between adjustment and ambition - Franco-Soviet relations and French foreign policy, Dominque Moisi and Gregory Flynn
  • the Federal Republic of Germany - the case of a reluctant latecomer, Karl Kaiser
  • Italo-Soviet relations - the changing domestic agenda, Marta Dassu
  • Japanese-Soviet relations - on the frontier, Hiroshi Kimura
  • systematic problems - American policy toward the Soviet Union, Joseph S.Nye, Jr
  • western security policy toward the Soviet Union - problems of unity and diversity, Robbin Laird and Phil Williams.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780333535004

内容説明

This book is a comparative study of the role that domestic factors play in shaping the form and content of Western policy towards the Soviet Union. The countries whose policies are featured are Great Britain, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States.

目次

  • Politics and policies, Gregory Flynn
  • Anglo-Soviet relations - a world order problem, Michael Clarke
  • between adjustment and ambition - Franco-Soviet relations and French foreign policy, Dominque Moisi and Gregory Flynn
  • the Federal Republic of Germany - the case of a reluctant latecomer, Karl Kaiser
  • Italo-Soviet relations - the changing domestic agenda, Marta Dassu
  • Japanese-Soviet relations - on the frontier, Hiroshi Kimura
  • systematic problems - American policy toward the Soviet Union, Joseph S.Nye, Jr
  • western security policy toward the Soviet Union - problems of unity and diversity, Robbin Laird and Phil Williams.

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