Key Themes in Soviet Published Sources on the Federal Republic of Germany

Abstract

This paper examines Soviet assessments of the Federal Republic of Germany's (FRG) security policy during the Gorbachev period. In this context, the main issues discussed in the Soviet open-source literature are: nuclear weapons; West German defense cooperation with France; the FRG's role in NATO; Soviet-West German relations; the German question and revanchism; and arms control. Soviet assessments of the FRG have clearly become more positive in the past two years. In short, the Gorbachev leadership recognizes the fundamentally important role the FRG plays in the West and between East and West.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA214751

Entities

People

  • Susan L. Clark

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Arms Control
  • Central Europe
  • Europe
  • European Union
  • Germany
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Political Parties
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Western Europe

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.