42. Soviet Options and Opportunities in Southern Asia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. INTRODUCTION XIII
4. CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME XXIII
5. I. ISSUES
6. 1. The Soviet Union: Her Aims, Problems, and Challenges to the West 3
7. 2. The Stalinist Legacy in Soviet Foreign Policy 16
8. 3. The Nature of Soviet Power 29
9. 4. The New Dynamics of the Soviet Empire: From Optimism to Pessimism 49
10. 5. Soviet Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy 66
11. 6. What Do Scholars Know about Soviet Foreign Policy? 84
12. 7. Soviet Ideology, Risk-Taking, and Crisis Behavior 99
13. II. POLICYMAKING AND IMPLEMENTATION
14. 8. Anatomy of Policymaking 111
15. 9. Soviet Perspectives on "The Scientific-Technological Revolution" and International Politics 125
16. 10. The Foreign Policy Establishment 141
17. 11. Decision Making for Arms Limitation in the Soviet Union 159
18. 12. The CPSU Central Committee's International Department 180
19. 13. "Active Measures" in Soviet Strategy 207
20. III. MILITARY POWER
21. 14. Soviet Perspectives on Security 219
22. 15. Military Power and Political Purpose in Soviet Policy 246
23. 16. The Satisfaction of Operational Objectives 266
24. 17. Soviet Strategy toward Northern Europe and Japan 285
25. 18. The Soviet-Afghan War: The First Four Years 305
26. IV. THE UNITED STATES
27. 19. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1976 325
28. 20. The Sources of American Conduct: Soviet Perspectives and Their Policy Implications 349
29. 21. The Soviet Union and Strategic Arms 369
30. 22. Selling the Russians the Rope? Soviet Technology Policy and U.S. Export Controls 387
31. 23. U.S. and Soviet Agriculture: The Shifting Balance of Power 414
32. 24. The New Soviet Challenge and America's New Edge 422
33. V. WESTERN EUROPE
34. 25. The USSR and Western Europe 443
35. 26. Soviet Nuclear Weapons in Europe 457
36. 27. Soviet Economic Policies in Western Europe 471
37. 28. Capitalist Contradictions and Soviet Policy 503
38. VI. EASTERN EUROPE
39. 29. Soviet Policy toward Eastern Europe: Interests, Instruments, and Trends 531
40. 30. The Soviet Union and the East European Militaries: The Diminishing Asset 549
41. 31. The Political Economy of Soviet Relations with Eastern Europe 570
42. 32. Soviet Empire: Alive but Not Well 601
43. VII. THE FAR EAST
44. 33. Asia in the Soviet Conception 623
45. 34. Siberian Development: The Strategic Implications 648
46. 35. Soviet Policy toward China 671
47. 36. The Moscow-Beijing Détente 681
48. VIII. THE THIRD WORLD
49. 37. Soviet Geopolitical Momentum: Myth or Menace? Center for Defense Information 701
50. 38. Soviet Arms Trade with the Noncommunist Third World 713
51. 39. The USSR and the Third World: Economic Dilemmas 731
52. 40. The Correlation of Forces and Soviet Policy in the Middle East 758
53. 41. The Soviet Union and the Peace Process since Camp David 774
54. 42. Soviet Options and Opportunities in Southern Asia 789
55. 43. New Trends in Soviet Policy toward Africa 806
56. 44. The Soviets and Latin America: A Three Decade U.S. Policy Tangle 824
57. IX. THE FUTURE
58. 45. Can the Soviet Union Reform? 855
59. 46. The Changing Soviet Union and the World 869
60. 47. Socialist Stagnation and Communist Encirclement 890
61. 48. Soviet Global Power and the Correlation of Forces 907
62. 49. KAL 007: Perceptions and Politics 932
63. 50. What the Russians Really Want: A Rational Response to the Soviet Challenge 937
64. 51. The Future of Yalta 949
65. 52. Managing the U.S.-Soviet Relationship over the Long Term 957