Gorbachev's Third World Dilemmas (1989) examines the strategic, political and ideological criteria which shaped Soviet policies toward the developing world. It looks at the activist foreign policy that Gorbachev inherited, and explores the elements of change and continuity that Gorbachev and the Soviets faced.

Kurt M. Campbell and S. Neil MacFarlane

1. The Soviet Conception of Regional Security S. Neil MacFarlane 2. The Evolution of Brezhnev Doctrine Under Gorbachev Mark N. Katz 3. Soviet Arms Transfers and Military Aid to the Third World Mark M. Kramer 4. The Third World in Soviet Professional Military Thinking Eugene B. Rumer 5. The Soviet Union and Nuclear Nonproliferation Mitchell Reiss 6. Soviet Policy and a Crisis Prevention Regime for the Third World Bruce J. Allyn 7. The USSR and Crisis in the Caribbean Basin S. Neil MacFarlane 8. Soviet Policy in Southern Africa: Angola and Mozambique Kurt M. Campbell 9. Soviet Policy n Afghanistan Robert S. Litwak