ABSTRACT
A new European order is emerging on the horizon, free of a dangerous and very costly confrontation between the two military and political blocs. In April, 1989, George Kennan called for the radical reorganization of relations between the USA and the USSR on the principle of a complete rejection of political and military confrontation. The future of the new ideological and conceptual arsenal of Soviet foreign policy is regarded in the West as closely tied to the program for radical domestic transformation in the Soviet Union: transition from the state-monopolistic economy to a market-type economy, ruled-by-law, restoration of moral values in Soviet policy, etc. For the United States, the post-war status quo and confrontation of the military and political blocs in Europe are associated with a great risk to US territory in the event of any serious military and political conflict in Europe resulting in a mutually annihilating exchange of nuclear strikes.
