Gorbachev's Agenda

Introduction -- Gorbachev’s Reform Efforts and Emerging Opposition -- Gorbachev’s Perestroika: Can the Soviet System be Reformed? -- Perestroika: Who Stands to Gain, Who Stands to Lose? -- Nationalist Unrest in the USSR and the Challenge to the Gorbachev Leadership -- Economic and Trade Reform -- Soviet Perestroika and Systemic Change in Eastern Europe: Challenges, Interdependencies, Patterns of Response -- Prospects for Soviet Foreign Trade Reform -- The Gorbachev Challenge: To Help Or Not to Help?1 -- The Military Challenge -- Gorbachev and the Soviet Military1 -- Future Trends in Soviet Military-Technical Policy -- The European Agenda -- Soviet Strategy Toward Western Europe: Implications for the Post-INF Environment -- Gorbachev’s New Program for Conventional Arms Control in Europe -- The Soviet Naval Presence in the Mediterranean -- Regional Issues -- Two Parallel Lines Do Not Intersect: Soviet-Israeli Relations, 1988–89 -- Soviet Options in the Pacific1 -- Japan: Gorbachev’s Partner in a Reluctant Detente1 -- Soviet Relations with Latin America