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Initiative and Response in Soviet Foreign Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Richard J. Barnet
Richard J. Barnet
Affiliation:
Director of the Office of Political Research
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Extract

IT is a commonplace in the West to think of Soviet foreign policy in terms of a grand strategy. Yet the subject has more often than not intimidated scholars into taking the route of specialization. Problems of obtaining source materials as well as the desire to avoid complexity and controversy have frequently discouraged Sovietologists from approaching foreign policy in other than small pieces. During the past year, however, several new books have been added to the small number which both offer detailed analysis of an extended historical period and approach the development of general theory. Each of the books covers a broad period and each uses the technique of focusing on a particular instrument of Soviet foreign policy.

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World Politics , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , October 1963 , pp. 173 - 187
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1963

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References

1 Djilas, Milovan, Conversations with Stalin, trans, by Petrovich, Michael B. (New York 1962), 114Google Scholar; cited in Shulman, 283.

2 Churchill, Winston S., Triumph and Tragedy (Boston 1953), 636Google Scholar.

3 Vladimirov, S., “Disarmament and the Plans for Establishing an International Police Force,” International Affairs, No. 4 (1960), 47Google Scholar; cited in Dallin, 238.