ABSTRACT
Richard Pipes assumes that the reforms will restrain Soviet expansion by allowing citizens preoccupied with domestic concerns to increase their influence over foreign policy. Edward Luttwak, Pipes, and Zbigniew Brzezinskifind different roots of the danger from the Soviet Union and offer different prescriptions for how to cope with it. Turning from goals to strategy and tactics, Luttwak, Brzezinski, and Pipes agree that Moscow pursues a "grand strategy" combining military intimidation, the sowing of political divisions in the West, and vigorous attempts to subvert and destabilize the Third World. For Luttwak, the clash between Russian and non-Russian nationalism within the USSR itself is the most threatening develop-mint facing the Soviet leaders. Soviet fear of threats from the West—a favorite explanation of more dovish Western analysts—is conspicuously missing from the sources of Soviet aggressiveness noted by Luttwak, Pipes, and Brzezinski. A, "internal" source of Soviet expansionism is seen in the nature of the Soviet system itself.
