ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the changes and their likely bearing on future Soviet Third World policy. Up to the early 1980's, the top Soviet leadership had invariably singled out for broad official endorsement one of the positions articulated during periods of controversy over the USSR's Third World policy. The "pro-military school" presses for cooperation that will render the countries at issue dependent on the USSR in a military sense. In keeping with the stress on ties with "revolutionary-democratic" regimes, this school of persuasion urges that the USSR try to build long-term structural relationships with the states that these regimes run. In the opinion of subscribers to the viewpoint, the rulers of many "capitalist-oriented" Third World countries want to develop a "nationalist" type of capitalism in their domains, while the "imperialist" Western powers strive to foster a "dependent" form of capitalism there.
