Gorbachev's Military Policy in the Third World (Praeger Security International) - Hardcover

"Mark Katz's highly readable and useful overview of Soviet military interest in the Third World will be an important resource for anyone doing research in this field."-Francis Fukuyama Deputy Director for East-West Relations Policy Planning Staff U.S. Department of State "In his timely and thoughtful assessment of Gorbachev's evolving military policy, Mark Katz cautions against concluding that Moscow has lost interest in retaining and acquiring positions of influence in areas such as Angola, the Arab world, Ethiopia, and Central America. By detailing for us the new thinking' in Moscow, and the new policies that it has spawned in the USSR's Third World Policy, he has made a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate about the challenge that Gorbachev poses to the United States."-Alvin Z. Rubinstein Professor of Political Science University of Pennsylvania "This perceptive study persuasively argues that the Soviet need for capital and technological assistance from the West has dictated a new approach to East-West relations, including competition in the Third World. Hence, Gorbachev ordered the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and has assisted in attempts to settle the Angolan and Cambodian conflicts. Nevertheless, the USSR has also engaged in efforts to undermine the Western positions in the Third World, and Dr. Katz cautions the West not to lose sight of this aspect of Gorbachev's policy."-Oles M. Smolansky University Professor of International Relations Lehigh University

MARK N. KATZ is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University. He is the author of The Third World in Soviet Military Thought (Johns Hopkins, 1982) and Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula (Johns Hopkins, 1986), plus several journal and newspaper articles on Soviet relations with the Third World.