Beyond the Soviet Union

Upheavals within the Soviet Union in the last decade have ended the Cold War balance of terror and forced an attempt to create market economies and democratic policies in the Western ideological mould. But now new instability has revived fears of armed conflict in Europe, emphasised by a strife in former Yugoslavia and Nagorno-Karabakh. New regimes are even now dominated by the old communist nomenklatura sporting nationalist colours and the peripheral states are still dependent on the Russian core.The 10 chapters of this book, reprints of Conflict Studies between 1989 and 1994, deal with particular internal issues within the former Soviet Union and its successor states, with their relations with each other and with their neighbours in Europe. They include changes between civil and military authorities, especially in Russia and the Ukraine and to implications for nuclear and conventional disarmament as well for foreign policy in general.