ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to map some of the contours of the linkages between major domestic and foreign policy areas under perestroika. It discusses linkages under three broad headings: resources, policy thinking and domestic politics. The chapter is concerned with policy approaches and frameworks of analysis as well as policy values, common norms and perspectives shaping strategy and tactics. Resource-based linkages provide the most direct and palpable connection between domestic and foreign policy since they self-evidently involve basic questions of allocation of priorities between guns and butter, or more accurately between developing different dimensions of security and economic capabilities. A less dramatic yet in the long term arguably a more important resource linkage involves Soviet external economic relations. If one part of the perestroika argument is that Soviet development has been diverted and handicapped by excessive military contest with the United States, another is that the USSR has been weakened by insufficient contact and economic competition with the advanced industrial world.
