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Seweryn Bialer, The Soviet Paradox: External Expansion, Internal Decline. London: Tauris, 1986. Pp.390; $26.95.
Robbin F. Laird and Erik P. Hoffmann (eds.), Soviet Foreign Policy in a Changing World. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1986. Pp.xxiv + 969; DM 178; DM 98.
Carl Jacobsen (ed.), The Soviet Defence Enigma. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp.xvii + 189; £22.50/$42.50.
Richard K. Betts, Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1987. Pp.xi + 240; $30 (hardback); $11 (paperback).