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Author Buszynski, Leszek

Title Gorbachev and Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)
Published Oxon : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (433 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Orginal Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; 1 Change and adjustment in Soviet foreign policy; Foreign policy change, 1985-7; The turning point, 1987-8; 'New Political Thinking' -- an assessment; 2 Conflicting interests in Soviet policy towards Southeast Asia, 1985-6; Gorbachev's Asia-Pacific agenda; Dilemmas in Gorbachev's policy -- Vietnam; Dilemmas in Gorbachev's policy -- ASEAN; 3 Turning point -- the Soviet Union and Southeast Asia, 1987-8; Indochina in Soviet policy
ASEAN in Soviet policy4 Cambodia and beyond; 5 The future; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary First published in 1992, this book examines Soviet foreign policy towards Southeast Asia in the context of the transformation of the perestroika era in the Soviet Union. The discussion begins in 1985 and ends in 1989 with the Soviet partial withdrawal from Cam Ranh Bay. Buszynski considers Gorbachev's effort to disengage from the Cambodian problem, the weakening of the Soviet alliance with Vietnam and the real effort to overcome old hostilities with growth areas in ASEAN such as Thailand and Singapore. This is a fascinating and relevant title, of particular value to students with an
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Subject Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022
SUBJECT Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022 fast
Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations
SUBJECT Southeast Asia -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1985-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88007999
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Southeast Asia
Subject Southeast Asia
Soviet Union
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134480579
1134480571
1306584523
9781306584524