Soviet Decisionmaking for National Security

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ICBM Force
ICBM Launcher
Krasnaia Zvezda
Main Military Council
Military force
Military Industrial Commission
military intervention analysis
Military Representatives
Minuteman III
risk aversion theory
Salt Ii
Salt Ii Treaty
Salt Negotiation
Soviet Decision
Soviet foreign policy
Soviet Foreign Policy Decisionmaking
Soviet ICBM
Soviet Military
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Soviet Perceptions
Soviet Policymaking
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Strategic Actor Model
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Supreme Soviet
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780367621346
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Jan 2021
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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This book, first published in 1984, analyses the critically important Cold War issue of the Soviet national security decision-making process dealing with weapons acquisition, arms control and the application of military force. It conceptualises Soviet decision-making for national security from Stalinist antecedents to 1980s modes, and examines the problems of decision-making concerning weapons development, defence research and development and SALT negotiations. It also focuses on the decision-making processes which led to the use or threatened use of military force in Czechoslovakia (1968), the Middle East (1973) and Afghanistan (1979).

Jiri Valenta and William C. Potter