Contents

pp vii-viii

List of tables

pp ix-ix

List of contributors

pp x-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-6

Part I - The Soviet Union and the international political system

pp 7-8

1 - Soviet reform in international perspective

pp 9-28

Part II - The Soviet Union and Europe

pp 29-30

2 - The changing Soviet–East European relationship

pp 31-48

3 - Soviet–Nordic relations in the era of perestroika and new thinking

pp 49-69

4 - Soviet signals to the Nordic countries during the Lithuanian crisis of 1990

pp 70-99

5 - Neutrality and new thinking

pp 100-118

Part III - The Soviet Union and the developing world: global trends

pp 119-120

6 - From new thinking to the fragmentation of consensus in Soviet foreign policy: the USSR and the developing world

pp 121-144

7 - Soviet new thinking on national liberation movements: continuity and change

pp 145-160

Part IV - The Soviet Union and the developing world: regional and country case studies

pp 161-162

8 - Soviet policy in Central America during the Gorbachev period

pp 163-179

9 - The Soviet reassessment of socialist orientation and the African response

pp 180-195

10 - Soviet policy in the Middle East: Gorbachev's imprint

pp 196-216

11 - The implications of perestroika for the Third World, particularly Asia

pp 217-235

12 - The Soviet Union and Indochina

pp 236-255

13 - Gorbachev's Southeast Asia policy: new thinking for a new era?

pp 256-274

14 - The impact of Gorbachev's new thinking on Soviet policy toward South Korea

pp 275-296

Part V - Conclusion

pp 297-298

15 - The paradox in new political thinking in Soviet foreign policy

pp 299-305

Index

pp 306-308