A Foreign Policy in Transition: Moscow's Retreat from Central America and the Caribbean, 1985-1992. (book reviews)

What a pleasure it is to read a thoroughly researched and well-argued book by a single author that puts Gorbachev's reconstruction of Soviet foreign policy into a timely perspective. Dr. Adams' study does far more than outline the evolution of Soviet policy toward Central America from Stalin's hostility, through Brezhnev's aggressiveness, to Gorbachev's new political thinking. All along, the author keeps in mind several pertinent questions that retain their relevance, both practical and theoretical, beyond the narrower focus of Moscow's retreat from the Caribbean area. Three basic ...