2012-05-24T13:27:14Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS026.html 1991-12-31T21:00:00Z 1991-12-31T21:00:00Z

At this RAND/UCLA Center for Soviet Studies symposium held on May 20, 1992, participants examined the collapse of the Soviet Union.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS027.html 1991-12-31T21:00:00Z 1991-12-31T21:00:00Z

The disintegration of the USSR shifted the geographic and geopolitical epicenter of Russia to the East. Russia will undoubtedly become an important actor in the shaping of the political and military situation in the Asian and Pacific Region.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS024.html 1990-12-31T21:00:00Z 1990-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper, the text of a presentation at the Aspen Institute Conference on U.S.-Soviet-East European Relations held in Budapest, Hungary, August 23-31, 1991, was written and distributed three weeks before the failed coup of August 19-21.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS022.html 1990-12-31T21:00:00Z 1990-12-31T21:00:00Z

Explores the implications of some of the most widely discussed Soviet futures and examines the current Western debate on appropriate economic assistance policies for helping to shape a favorable Soviet outcome.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS023.html 1990-12-31T21:00:00Z 1990-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper, the text of testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 26, 1991, reviews the implications of post-August-coup changes in the former Soviet Union for U.S. economic assistance policy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS021.html 1990-12-31T21:00:00Z 1990-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper reports on the presentations made at a symposium on Soviet foreign policy in a new international environment, held May 1, 1991, at RAND.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS025.html 1990-12-31T21:00:00Z 1990-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper presents summaries of remarks made by participants in a symposium held at the University of California, Los Angeles, on October 1, 1991.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS013.html 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z

As the United States and the Soviet Union reach the threshold of a new era in their relations, their roles in shaping the post-cold war world will be different from those they played in managing the East-West conflict, but no less crucial.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS016.html 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z

The author accompanied Admiral William Crowe on a nine-day Soviet trip in March 1990. This paper documents his observations on individuals they met, institutions they visited, and issues that were discussed.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS018.html 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z

Describes the author's experience as the first American to fly the Soviet MiG-29 fighter and the first Westerner to fly any type of combat aircraft in Soviet airspace since World War II.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS019.html 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper reports on a symposium that examined the changes in Soviet party and governmental policymaking on two levels: (1) the fundamental level of who is in charge; and (2) the depth of change in relations among the party, the executive, and ...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS017.html 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper presents summaries of the proceedings of the RAND/UCLA Center for Soviet Studies' fourth annual conference, April 1990.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS020.html 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z 1989-12-31T21:00:00Z

The Cold War era, in which world politics was dominated by Soviet-American military-ideological confrontation has come to an end.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS011.html 1988-12-31T21:00:00Z 1988-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper, the text of a statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee, April 5, 1989, discusses the connection between recent change in the Soviet Union and U.S. strategy for managing Soviet-American relations.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS015.html 1988-12-31T21:00:00Z 1988-12-31T21:00:00Z

By 1987, the prospects that the Soviet army would ever be able to leave Afghanistan in the hands of a secure client communist regime were becoming more and more remote. But the costs of withdrawal seemed too great to contemplate.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS014.html 1988-12-31T21:00:00Z 1988-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper examines the impact of military institutions and procedures on Soviet crisis decisionmaking.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS010.html 1987-12-31T21:00:00Z 1987-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper is a reply to comments made by G. A. Trofimenko ("New Realities and New Thinking," USA, February 1987) on the authors' article, "Superpower Balancing Acts," which appeared in Foreign Affairs, Vol. 64, No. 3.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS008.html 1985-12-31T21:00:00Z 1985-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper reviews Soviet behavior in international crises to determine both the patterns of Soviet behavior and their underlying determinants.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS009.html 1985-12-31T21:00:00Z 1985-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper, reprinted from National Security Issues of the USSR (M. Feshbach, ed., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1987), considers Soviet foreign policy under Gorbachev.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers-soviet/OPS003-1.html 1985-12-31T21:00:00Z 1985-12-31T21:00:00Z

This paper, which is included as a chapter in U.S.-Soviet Relations: The Next Phase (Cornell University Press, 1986), analyzes the nuclear arms control dimension of U.S.-Soviet relations as it enters a new phase. It reviews the developments and force...