Soviet Military Policy Paperback by edited by Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Steven E. Miller, and Stephen Van Evera

Product Details

• Publisher: The MIT Press (1989-08-11)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 388 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780262620666
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Soviet military policy has been one of the most important and perplexing issues confronting the United States since 1945. Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign policy innovations have focused renewed attention on these vital questions. In this timely reader, ten experts on the Soviet Union offer their perspectives on Soviet military strategy and defense policy, covering the foreign policy context, nuclear weapons, conventional forces, and force and Soviet diplomacy.

Contributors: Jack Snyder, Franklyn Griffiths, Stephen M. Meyer, Raymond L. Garthoff, Fritz W. Ermarth, Dimitri K. Simes, Donald MacKenzie, Matthew A Evangelista, and Richard Ned Lebow

About the Author

Sean M. Lynn-Jones is Editor of International Security, the International Security Program's quarterly journal. He is also series editor of the Belfer Center Studies in International Security, the Program's book series that is published by MIT Press.

Steven E. Miller is director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center.

Stephen Van Evera is Ford International Professor in the MIT Political Science Department.