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Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals): The USSR confronts Global Interdependence

Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals): The USSR confronts Global Interdependence

Clemens, Walter

Paperback

Series: Routledge Revivals

International RelationsRussian HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0415508266
ISBN13: 9780415508261
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 12 2013
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

First published in 1989, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West relations from a zero-sum struggle to a state of peaceful competition and mutual security.

In order to answer this question, the author compares advances and setbacks in arms control and security affairs with co-operation on less politically salient issues such as environmental degradation. He finds that in the nearly seventy years preceding Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power, the Kremlin relied on several basic approaches to foreign relations. These policies isolated the Soviet Union from those nations whose co-operation it needed to cope with the escalating interdependencies of the time. Gorbachev, Clemens argues, was the first Soviet leader to recognise both the problems and potential benefits of global interdependence and to explore the possibilities for co-operation between East and West to advance mutual security.

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