The limits of soviet power in the developing world

Review

Articles

LAWRENCE B. STOI.LAR*

Recent Writings Abundant

Roy

Harvest,

The Soviet

Allison,

(Cambridge, Edward

UK:

A. Kolodziej

Carol

Union

and Roger

Johns

and the Stratem

University E. Kanet,

Hopkins

of Non-Alignment

Press,

Saivetz,

Press,

1989). CO:

Westview,

1987).

The Soviet Union in the Third World (Boulder,

ed.,

World

The Limits of Soviet Power in the Developing

eds.,

University

in the Third

1988).

Vietnam and the Soviet Union (Boulder,

Pike, R.

Much Fine Fruit

Cambridge

World (Baltimore: Douglas

on the USSR and Third World:

CO:

Westview,

1989). Peter

The Soviet Union and Cuba, Chatham

Shearman,

Routledge

and Kegan

Richard

H. Shultz,

Ramesh

Thakur

Over that

was,

for some

recently,

and Latin The raise

Papers,

time, place

No.

38 (London:

studies

the province

foreign

1988).

The Soviet Union as an Asian Pacific Power.

eds.,

world

in the developing

that Soviet policy

in Moscow’s

Press,

Vladivostok Initiative (Boulder,

the Soviet

policy

Institution

A. Thayer,

1986

few years

the central

administration’s

Hoover

and Carlyle

on the USSRs

reflects more

(Stanford:

of Gorbachev’s

the past

writings

House

1987).

The Soviet Union and Revolutional-y Warfare: Principles, Practices, and

Jr.,

Regional Comparisons

Implications

Paul,

of a relative

actions

and

has

world.

Asia,

that

of new

in an area

undoubtedly

occupied

changes

and South

crop

interest

of specialists

World

1987).

a bumper

increased

handful

in the Third

to East

: Westview,

enjoyed The

the extraordinary

approach

CO

in the Reagan

have

the Middle

taken East,

place, Africa,

America.

dynamic numerous

developments

“whither

Gorbachev?”

Moscow’s

withdrawal

other

regional

Israel,

South

in Moscow’s

questions,

conflicts, Korea,

the To

from

what

and

ends

Afghanistan,

and their South

policy

broadest

in the Third

of which have

the

may

be

World

remarkable

the Soviets’

diplomatic

overtures

Africa-taken

place?

under

characterized

simply

changes-among

contribution to former Do these

Gorbachev

to the settlement “pariah shifts

as

them states”

indicate

of like

funda-

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