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The Soviet Union and the Strategy of Non-Alignment in the Third World

Roy Allison author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:15th Dec '88

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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.

ISBN: 9780521355117

Dimensions: 236mm x 159mm x 24mm

Weight: 635g

308 pages