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Current thinking on arms control and disarmament has been dominated by the analysis of such "objective" factors as the number of weapons, their characteristics, technological developments and nuclear weapons deployment policies. Yet arms control negotiations have had little success so far. In this volume, Daniel Frei asserts that while such objective analysis is indeed indispensable, it needs to be supplemented by a careful, document-based description of Soviet and U.S. perceptions of one another and of the kind of assumptions that have thus far compelled their leaders to seek security in growing numbers of sophisticated weapons at ever-increasing cost.
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Dr. Laird provides the student of Soviet affairs, international security, and arms control with an understanding of the role of the Soviets in European security by examining the Soviet-French interaction. He first defines the general Soviet approach to European security issues and discusses it with specific reference to France. He identifies contem
Since Gorbachev came to power, the Soviet Union has adopted a dramatically new approach to arms control and disarmament. Based on cooperation rather than confrontation, this change in approach has contributed to a situation where both East and West now stand at the edge of radical arms reductions. This paper examines a number of fundamental principles which have guided the Soviet approach to conventional arms control issues over the past three years. The paper demonstrates that, though it was initially an idea with little substance, the principle of reasonable sufficiency and its corollaries have become central to Soviet thinking on arms control and disarmament.