Table of Contents:
  • Overview / Grayson Kirk and Nils H. Wessell
  • The global military balance / Paul H. Nitze
  • The strategic debate in the United States / Barry E. Carter
  • Sino-Soviet relations / Jonathan D. Pollack
  • An evaluation of the Soviet navy / G.E. Miller
  • The Soviet Union and conventional arms control / Edward C. Luck
  • Eastern Europe and the Soviet threat / Andrzej Korbonski
  • Yugoslavia and Soviet policy / Duncan Wilson
  • Southern Africa : testing détente / Richard E. Bissell
  • The United States and the Soviet Union in the Middle East / O.M. Smolansky
  • The European military balance / John Erickson
  • Soviet economic capabilities and defense resources / John P. Hardt
  • Human rights and détente / Dimitri K. Simes
  • Eurocommunism : a threat to Soviet hegomony? / Bogdan D. Denitch
  • Détente and Soviet domestic polities / Peter H. Juviler and Hannah J. Zawadska
  • The reality of the Soviet threat / Maxwell D. Taylor.