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This book focuses on the nature of the Soviet-East European relationship in the Gorbachev era and on the prospects for the adaptation of that relationship to changing conditions in today's world, examining trends and tendencies in Soviet-East European relations.
List of contents
Preface -- Introduction -- Soviet Perspectives -- Soviet Political and Ideological Perceptions and Policies Toward Eastern Europe -- Soviet Efforts to Restructure the CMEA: The Cose of Regional Energy Relations -- Soviet Military Concerns and Prospects in Eastern Europe -- East European Concerns -- East European Political and Ideological Perceptions and Concerns -- Reforms in the USSR and Eastern Europe: Is There a Link? -- The Lesser Allies’ View: Eastern Europe and the Military Relationship with the Soviet Union -- Lands In-Between: The Politics of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Eastern Europe -- Dilemmas and Prospects -- On Reform, Perceptions, Misperceptions, Trends, and Tendencies -- Epilogue
About the author
"Aurel Braun is Professor of International Relations at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. His works include The Warsaw Pact: Change and Modernization (forthcoming, Westview), Small-State Security in the Balkans (1983); Romanian Foreign Policy Since 1965: The Political Military Limits of Autonomy (1978); The Middle East in Global Strategy (editor) (Westview, 1987); and Ceausescu: The Problems of Power (1980). He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Soviet-East European relations, the Warsaw Pact, the CMEA, and strategic issues. His articles have appeared in Obis, Problems of Communism, The International Journal, Millennium, and Sudosteuropa.
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