This survey of writings on the debates about and events relating to Soviet foreign policy concentrates on the Gorbachev period

Introduction; V: Perspectives and Policymaking; 14: The Revolution in Soviet Foreign Policy; 15: New Thinking or New Tactics in Soviet Foreign Policy?; 16: Changing Soviet Elite Views on the International System and Soviet Foreign Policy; 17: Inventing the Soviet National Interest; 18: Linkages between Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policy under Gorbachev; 19: The Role of the CPSU International Department in Soviet Foreign Relations and National Security Policy; 20: The KGB and Soviet Foreign Policy; 21: Is Gorbachev Changing the Rules of Defense Decision-Making?; VI: Policy and Performance; 22: The Soviet Military in Transition; 23: New Thinking on Security Issues; 24: The Soviet Union: A Player in the World Economy?; 25: Gorbachev's Foreign Policy: A Diplomacy of Decline *; 26: Gorbachev's Global Doughnut: The Empire with a Hole in the Middle; 27: Gorbachev and the West; 28: U.S.-Soviet Relations: Threshold of a New Era; 29: The New Soviet Approach to Europe *; 30: The Changing Role of the Soviet Union in the Pacific; 31: Moscow's Third World Strategy; 32: The USSR and the Third World in the 1980's; 33: Moscow's U.N. Policy; VII: Retrospect and Prospect; 34: The Gorbachev Revolution: A Waning of Soviet Expansionism?; 35: The Soviet Threat in the 1990s; 36: Idealpolitik; 37: Points of Mutual Advantage: Perestroika and American Foreign Policy; 38: The Gulf Crisis and the Future of Gorbachev's Foreign Policy Revolution; 39: The Evolution of Soviet Foreign Policy and the Future