Soviet risk-taking and crisis behavior: A theoretical and empirical analysis (Studies of the Russian Institute)

Politics & Social Sciences

Adomeit, Hannes

Politics & Government

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Soviet Risk Taking and Crisis Behavior: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Unwin Hyman

This volume contains a collection of essays concerning Soviet perspectives on Western Europe and NATO organized substantively around the concept of Gorbachev's "anti-coalition strategy". There is an emphasis on the impact of arms control agreements and new policies under Gorbachev.

USSR and the Western Alliance

Laird, Robbin F.

Clark, Susan L.

<p><p>Soviet Risk-Taking and Crisis Behavior, first published in 1982, examines the question: for what purposes and under what conditions were Soviet leaders prepared to take risks in international relations? The first part of the book sets out to define the concept of risk and to examine its analytical relevance for foreign policy, its measurement and its relation to the dynamics of crisis. The second part consists of in-depth analysis of Soviet behavior in the Berlin crises of 1948 and 1961. The third and last part compares Soviet policy in the two crises, and the actions of the two different leaderships, as well as relating it to Soviet behavior in other geographical areas.</p></p>

Soviet Risk-Taking and Crisis Behavior (Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Foreign Policy)

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Routledge

This book focuses on the dynamics which led to the division of Germany - a process that occurred by default rather than design; the role played in that process by the Soviet Union under Stalin; the reasons why his successors, from Khrushchev to the Communist Party general secretaries Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, stubbornly clung to the division of Germany for almost half a century; their increasing realisation of the 'costs of an empire'; the failure of their attempts to stop East Germany's increasing dependence on West Germany; and, finally, the reasons why Gorbachev accepted the dissolution of the Soviet empire, abandoned his 'strategic ally' and consented to the unified Germany's membership of NATO. The Soviet Union, the book concludes, had overextended itself in its attempt to maintain imperial control by the constant application of 'hard power'. The lesson for today is obvious, but Putin appears set to repeat the fateful course pursued by his Soviet predecessors.

Imperial overstretch: Germany in Soviet policy from Stalin to Gorbachev : an analysis based on new archival evidence, memoirs, and interviews (Internationale Politik und Sicherheit)

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft

Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev: an Analysis Based on New Archival Evidence, Memoirs, and Interviews ... (Internationale Politik Und Sicherheit, 48)

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co

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