Review by Choice Review
This collection of 15 chapters primarily by European authors was written mostly in late 1987 and updated to May 1989. The emphasis is on foreign policy; only the first three chapters deal with domestic politics, and these are rather schematic. The remaining chapters cover many aspects of Soviet foreign policy, from reforms in the foreign trade system to regional issues from Japan to the Middle East. No chapter deals directly with US-Soviet relations. The book will be useful for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Soviet foreign policy, but the best general introduction to this topic remains Gorbachev's Russia and American Foreign Policy, ed. by S. Bialer and M. Mandelbaum (CH, Jan'89). The rapid developments in Soviet external relations have made collections of conference papers such as this volume less attractive than articles in quarterly journals or the annual Foreign Affairs survey America and the World. -P. Rutland, Wesleyan University
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Review by Choice Review
