POL 532A Russian Foreign Policy, 1968 - 2008
The purpose of this course is to stimulate students' thinking about Russian perspectives on what the Cold War was about and why it ended the way it did and to offer Russian perspectives on the world order since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. With regard to the Gorbachev reforms that contributed to the end of the Soviet regime, the emphasis will likewise be on the internal dynamics that undermined the communist order.