Openness and Foreign Policy Reform in Communist States

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 7
PREFACE......Page 8
INTRODUCTION: DEFINING REFORM AS OPENNESS......Page 10
DEFINING TERMS......Page 11
Political sector......Page 14
Societal and cultural sector......Page 15
COUNTRIES AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 17
The Soviet Union......Page 18
China......Page 19
Vietnam......Page 20
Divided countries: the GDR and North Korea......Page 21
THE INTERNATIONAL IMPACT OF OPENNESS......Page 22
LOOKING AHEAD......Page 25
1 FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY......Page 28
THE DOMESTIC DIMENSION......Page 30
Decision-making......Page 31
REGIONALISM......Page 36
Learning about reform......Page 42
Foreign direct investment......Page 49
Foreign trade......Page 56
MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS......Page 62
CONCLUSION......Page 67
2 DEFENCE AND SECURITY POLICY......Page 70
Civil-military relations......Page 72
DEMILITARIZING THE ECONOMY......Page 75
DEMILITARIZATION OF SOCIETY......Page 82
DECISION-MAKING......Page 85
REGIONALISM......Page 88
PROFESSIONALISM......Page 90
THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM......Page 95
The threat of war......Page 96
Arms transfers......Page 100
Peaceful settlement of disputes......Page 103
Conventional weapons......Page 108
Nuclear weapons......Page 112
ALLIANCES......Page 116
CONCLUSION......Page 117
3 CULTURE AND COMMUNICATIONS POLICY......Page 120
The freedom to organize......Page 122
REFORM OF THE MEDIA......Page 135
THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CULTURE......Page 147
REFORM OF RELIGIOUS POLICY......Page 156
TOURISM AND EMIGRATION......Page 161
THE IMPACT OF DOMESTIC POLITICS......Page 169
THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM......Page 174
CONCLUSION......Page 180
4 FOREIGN POLICY IDEOLOGY......Page 184
THE COURSE OF REFORM......Page 189
National security......Page 191
Development and interdependence......Page 205
THE ROLE OF DOMESTIC FACTORS......Page 215
THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM......Page 221
CONCLUSIONS......Page 226
NOTES......Page 230
INDEX......Page 254