BEYOND CONTAINMENT ALTERNATIVE AMERICAN POLICIES TOWARD THE SOVIET UNIONPDF电子书下载

I. Introduction 1

1. CONTAINMENT: INDISPENSABLE YET UNSATISFACTORY 3

II. Background 9

2. DILEMMAS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY 11

Keeping Score 12

The Dilemma of Motives 15

The Dilemma of Defensiveness 17

The Dilemma of Deterrence 21

3. THE SOVIET SYSTEM 25

Structure 29

Privileges 30

Control 32

4. REINSPECTING CONTAINMENT 39

Kennan's Vision 40

The Idea of "Balance" 42

Détente as Therapy 44

The Original Debate 47

The Hope of Soviet "Collapse" 52

Stark Alternatives 57

III. Policy Alternatives 61

5. CONTAINMENT AND THE SEARCH FOR ALTERNATIVES: A CRITIQUE 63

The Reagan Record 64

Disparity Between Words and Actions 66

Reagan vs. Carter 67

The Defense Program 69

Alternatives to Containment 70

Desire for Decisive Outcome 83

Exaggeration of Dilemmas 86

Implications of Recent Events 89

6. ON HEDGING BETS: SELECTIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE SOVIET UNION 93

Toward a Strategy of Selective Engagement 94

A History of Changing Moods 96

Strategies for Dealing with the Soviet Union 99

What Do the Soviets Want? 103

Does Our Ignorance of Soviet Motives Matter? 110

Why the United States Can No Longer Dominate 114

Aspects of Selective Engagement 117

7. CONTAINMENT PLUS PLURALIZATION 125

The Theory: Change Abroad to Prevent Change at Home 126

The Practice: Pluralizing the Soviet Union 131

Counterarguments 139

8. EXTENDED CONTAINMENT 147

Mirror-Imaging vs. Power-Maximizing 149

Reversing Expansion of the Soviet Empire 153

Extending Containment 156

Extending Containment in the Economic Realm 161

Pluralism and Extended Containment 167

9. DYNAMIC CONTAINMENT 169

The Soviet Problem 170

Soviet Prospects and Dangers 174

Fundamentals of Soviet Foreign Policy 175

The Nature of the Threat 179

Dynamic Containment 181

The War of Ideas 184

Communism and the War of Ideas 187

Political Action 191

Strategic Nuclear Forces 191

A Different Direction for Arms Control 197

10. FOREIGN POLICY FOR AN IMPULSIVE PEOPLE 201

Limiting the Danger of War 202

Human Rights 209

The Opposition to Containment 211

Toward a Policy of Rhetorical Simplicity 216

Improving Persuasion: An Illustration 219

Objections to a Policy of Rhetorical Simplicity 221

"Speaking Out" vs. Rhetorical Simplicity 224

The President's Role 226

IV. Conclusion 229

11. FROM MINIMAL TO MAXIMAL CONTAINMENT 231

NOTES 241

CONTRIBUTORS 253

INDEX 255