ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the behavior of states in the Warsaw Pact by evaluating the interrelation between Soviet goals, purposes, and behavior on the one hand, and alliance aspirations regarding the military relationship with the Pact in general, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), on the other. It also examines the emerging new foreign policies of the Gorbachev era and the potential impact of the “new” policies on Soviet-East European external relations. The chapter addresses the thorny subject of “adaptation” in military relations with the USSR. Accordingly, there seem to exist basically two types of divergence. The first concerns issues that involve the domestic and the second the external aspects of the military relationship between Eastern Europe and the USSR. A lack of interest in further integration on the part of the Lesser Allies, and an expectation of greater cooperation on the part of the USSR, also can be observed regarding the formulation and operationalization of alliance policies.
