Soviet Military Policy Toward the Third World

Abstract

To examine the adjustment of the Gorbachev regime toward the Third World, the International Research Council of CSIS, headed by Quarterly Editor Walter Laqueur, convened a meeting on the issue. Presented as a roundtable, the views of some commentators provide a glimmer of what lies in store in the coming years for Soviet foreign policy in the Third World. As regularly as clockwork, a new Soviet leadership goes through a process of reevaluation toward the Third World. Over the horizon, but constantly on their agenda, the less-developed regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America beckon the Soviets into geopolitical hazards and opportunities to score against the West.