Analysis and Evaluation of Potential Competition of Interest Among the Major Powers. Volume III. Analysis of Soviet Patterns of External Interests.
Abstract
This is Volume III of the final report on the research project entitled Analysis and Evaluation of a Potential Competition of Interest Among the Major Powers. This report presents a comprehensive analysis of the scope and character of the Soviet interest as manifested in observable patterns of external involvement. Although the Soviet Union constitutes only one of the five major foreign international actors being examined, the importance of its worldwide role in U.S. defense planning justified a more extensive analytic treatment than has been accorded to the other four powers, i.e., France, Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany. A systematic analysis of the phenomenon of international competition, using empirical data to the fullest extent feasible, requires an interlocking series of conceptual and methodological building blocks. One of the most crucial steps is the operationalization of the concept of the national interest so that it may be measured and subjected to systematic analysis. This study operationalized the Soviet interest abroad as the observable network of military, political, and economic activities that combine to express the scope and character of Soviet foreign involvement.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 30, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA104061
Entities
People
- J. S. Breemer
- M. E. Miller