The Soviet Union and the Strategy of Non-Alignment in the Third World (Ford/Southampton Studies in North/South Security Relations)
Cambridge University Press, 6/1/2009
EAN 9780521102506, ISBN10: 0521102502
Paperback, 308 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English
This study investigates the overall Soviet conception of non-alignment in the Third World and assesses Soviet policy in relation to this issue. The author argues that official Soviet encouragement for the policy of non-alignment and Soviet support for the programme of the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1960s and 1970s have been part of a broad Soviet strategy aimed at weakening and ultimately supplanting Western military and political ties with Third World states. Soviet officials have been reluctant, therefore, to view neutrality, nuetralism or non-alignment as concepts or policies which denote an intermediate status between the blocs. This study assesses the implications of such perceptions for Soviet policy and considers how far Soviet leaders have accepted the independent foreign policy aspirations of non-aligned states.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Soviet view of non-alignment in the international order
2. The Soviet Union and the search for international security by the non-aligned states
3. Soviet policy and neutralisation in the Third World
4. Soviet policy and military alignment in the Third World
Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.