Gorbachev's Eurasian Strategy: The Dangers of Success and Failure
Abstract
'There is great disorder under heaven, and the situation is excellent,' goes the Chinese version of dialectic. Four years and countless surprises after his ascendance to power, there is now little doubt that Mikhail Gorbachev aims to modernize Soviet society and to de-ideologize Moscow's foreign relations. Clearly, the world has been dazzled by the brutal candor with the Soviets have exposed the systemic crisis of communism and the stunning scope and pace of Gorbachev's 'new thinking.' Too dazzled, perhaps. Glaringly absent from the normative debate about perestroika is a sober assessment of how 'new thinking' contributes to the attainment of Soviet strategic objectives or whether the path of Soviet foreign policy will, as widely assumed, lead to a more stable world.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA228411
Entities
People
- Hugh De Santis
- Robert A. Manning
Organizations
- RAND Corporation