The Soviet Union and the Strategy of Non-Alignment in the Third World

by Roy Allison and Allison Roy

Book Overview

This study investigates the overall Soviet conception of non-alignment in the Third World and assesses Soviet policy in relation to this issue. The author argues that official Soviet encouragement for the policy of non-alignment and Soviet support for the programme of the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1960s and 1970s have been part of a broad Soviet strategy aimed at weakening and ultimately supplanting Western military and political ties with Third...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521102502
• ISBN13: 9780521102506
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"