Choice Review

This collection of essays by noted American and Japanese scholars not only illustrates the benefits of cross-cultural academic collaboration and fills a considerable gap in the literature, but it also represents one of the very best efforts made thus far in an edited volume to understand Soviet domestic and foreign policy reforms under Gorbachev. The authors cover the linkage between the Gorbachev regime's efforts to produce and manage fundamental change in the economic realm, the reform movement in the USSR, the impact of ideology on reform, recent foreign policy initiatives, as well as the consequences of reform on Soviet military thinking and Moscow's posture in Asia and the Pacific. The book is handsomely produced and, although it lacks a bibliography, has a good index and excellent references. Very useful for graduate courses in contemporary Soviet domestic or foreign policy, and promises to be a very interesting supplement in upper-level undergraduate courses. R. L. Moses Carnegie-Mellon University