Table Of ContentTHE SOVIET UNION AND THE THIRD WORLD
Also by E. J. Feuchtwanger
DISRAELI, DEMOCRACY AND THE TORY PARTY
PRUSSIA: MYTH AND REALITY
GLADSTONE
UPHEAVAL AND CONTINUITY: A CENTURY OF
GERMAN HISTORY (editor)
SOVIET MILITARY POWER AND PERFORMANCE
(editor with John Erickson)
THE SOVIET UNION AND
THE THIRD WORLD
Edited by
E. J. Feuchtwanger and Peter Nailor
Selection and editorial matter
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Chapters 1-9 inclusive
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Contents
Nares on rhe Conrribwors vii
Editors' Preface IX
PART I GENERAL ASPECTS
1 Introduction: Political and Ideological Aspects 3
Otto Pick
2 The New Military Instruments 12
Jonathan Alford
3 Soviet Trade with the Third World 30
Brian Pockney
4 The Commercial Policies of the Communist Third World 79
A. General: Peter Wiles and Alan Smith
B. Country Studies
Mozambique: Nicos Zafiris
Angola: Nicos Zafiris
Ethiopia: Barry Lynch
Somalia: Barry Lynch
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen: Yukimasa Chudo
PART II REGIONAL ASPECTS
5 The Soviet Union in the Middle East: Great Power
in Search of a Leading Role 117
Karen Dawisha
6 Colossus or Humbug? The Soviet Union and its
Southern Neighbours 137
Malcolm Yapp
7 The Soviet Union in South-East Asia 164
Michael Leifer
8 The Soviet Union and Africa: How Great a Change? 183
James Mayall
9 The Soviet Experience in the Horn of Africa 202
Christopher Clapham
Index 225
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Notes on the Contributors
Jonathan Alford is Deputy Director of the International Institute for
Strategic Studies,
Christopher Clapham is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics
at the University of Lancaster.
Karen Dawisha is Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the
University of Southampton.
E. J. Feuchtwanger is Reader in History at the University of
Southampton.
Michael Leifer is Reader in the Department of International Relations
at the London School of Economics.
James Mayan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International
Relations at the London School of Economics.
Peter Nailor is Professor of History at the Royal Naval College,
Greenwich.
Otto Pick is Professor of International Relations at the University of
Surrey.
Brian Pockney is Director of Russian Studies in the Department of
Linguistic and International Studies at the University of Surrey.
Peter Wiles is Professor of Russian Social and Economic Studies at
the London School of Economics. Yukimasa Chudo, Barry Lynch,
Alan Smith and Nicos Zafiris have been associated with him in a
major research investigation into Soviet and Communist Third
World commercial and trading policies.
Malcolm Yapp is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of the
Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London.
Editors' Preface
The choice of topics in this book has been governed by the aim of
shedding light on an important area of Soviet policy rather than by the
desire to cover comprehensively the relationships of all Third World
countries, if such could be precisely defined, with the Soviet Union.
Thus, besides military and strategic considerations, Soviet trade with
the Third World figures prominently. In addition to a general chapter
on Soviet trade with the Third World, there is a separate chapter by
Professor Wiles and his team of researchers dealing with the question
how far Third World countries which can be broadly defined as
Marxist-Leninist are being pulled into the Soviet orbit by their
commercial ties with the Eastern bloc. It is such economic dependence
which may well be the most enduring basis for Soviet influence in the
Third World. Political and military ties can be, as the case of Egypt
strikingly illustrates, short-lived.
In the second part of the book a number of case studies drawn from
various Third World regions highlight the course of Soviet policy in the
recent past. Some deal with countries contiguous to the Soviet Union
where there is often a long history of Russian influence and aspirations;
in other regions, such as Africa, it is the recent acquisition of a global
capability that has given the Soviet Union the option of projecting
influence.
The editors hope that the book makes a general contribution
towards illustrating the aims and intentions of Soviet foreign policy.
Part I General Aspects
