Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policies II - (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society) by Robert M Cutler (Paperback)

About the Book

This collection of studies investigates the political economy of international relations between the Soviet bloc and West European countries, both individually and cohering as the European Economic Community / European Communities. It spans the entire post-Stalin era, focusing on the 1970s and 1980s.

Book Synopsis

This collection of studies investigates the political economy of international relations between the Soviet bloc and West European countries, both individually and cohering as the European Economic Community / European Communities. It spans the entire post-Stalin era, focusing on the 1970s and 1980s. The works examine international trade patterns in East-West relations; Soviet views of West European integration and their influence on practice, also for the bloc as a whole; and reciprocal effects on Soviet domestic politics and foreign policy more under Gorbachev and in historical perspective.
Extensive references make this volume a handbook which is of interest not only to researchers, but also to university students and the general public.

Review Quotes

Cutler's path-breaking work has consistently shown that the only effective way to address post-Soviet realities is consciously to combine case studies with theoretical approaches.

--Professor of political science and former Associate Director of The Harriman Institute, Alexander J. Motyl, Rutgers University-Newark

These carefully researched works well advance our understanding of Soviet-bloc international relations during the Cold War.

--Former Cummings Memorial Professor of International Affairs Allen Lynch, Department of Politics, University of Virginia

About the Author

Dr. Robert M. Cutler, educated at MIT and The University of Michigan, is a Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, Director (and Senior Research Fellow) of the Energy Security Program at the NATO Association of Canada, and a Practitioner Member of the University of Waterloo's Institute for Complexity and Innovation. He has been IREX Fellow at Moscow State University, Post-doctoral Fellow at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, and Gallatin Fellow at the University of Geneva. He has taught and worked elsewhere in Canada, France, Switzerland, and the United States, notably as Senior Researcher at the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies of Carleton University. Cutler is editor of The Basic Bakunin (Prometheus 1992) and the author of How Soviet Foreign Policy Failed (ISCE 2013). His research articles have been published in, among other journals, International Affairs (London), International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of International Affairs, Problems of Communism, Soviet Studies, and World Politics.