ABSTRACT
Garthoff (1994) is another detailed and brilliant account, this time of Soviet and American foreign policies in the 1980s. A less comprehensive alternative to Garthoff is Oberdorfer (1992). Succinct summaries of Gorbachev’s foreign policy may be found in Brown (1996) and White (1990), which also deal extensively with his domestic policies. Gorbachev’s memoirs (Gorbachev, 1996) are much less revealing than you would expect. Far more rewarding are the speeches and articles in Gorbachev (1988) which convey a sense of the feeling as well as the ideas behind his New Thinking on Soviet foreign policy.
