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Gorbachev’s ‘New Thinking’ About East—West Relations: Causes and Consequences

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Gorbachev has made the call for ‘new thinking’ the centrepiece of his foreign policy programme. The phrase ‘new thinking’ (novoe myshlenie? occupies the same exalted place in his discussion of international politics that perestroik? and glasnos? have assumed in his domestic policy. Over and over again, he has stressed the necessity of discarding old approaches in favour of new policies more appropriate to the urgent realities and dangers of our times.

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  1. An earlier version of this article appeared in Current Histor?, October 1988. The author would like to thank the Donner Canadian Foundation for the research support provided through its grant to the research project on International Regimes of the Institute of International Relations of the University of British Columbia.

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  2. Quote in ‘Will the Cold War Fade Away?’, Tim?, 27 July 1987, p. 32.

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  4. Cautiously optimistic analyses of the ‘new thinking’ are contained in Alexander Dallin, ‘Gorbachev’s Foreign Policy and the “New Political Thinking” in the Soviet Union’, in Peter Juviler and Hiroshi Kimura (eds) Gorbache?’s Reform?, Hawthorne, New York, Aldine de Gruyter, 1988, pp. 97–113; Raymond Garthoff, ‘New Thinking in Soviet Military Doctrine’, The Washington Quarterl?, vol. 11, no. 3. Summer, 1988, pp. 131–58; Robert Legvold, ‘Gorbachev’s “New Thinking”’, in Gorbache?’s Foreign Polic?, Foreign Policy Association Headline Series, no. 284, 1988, pp. 7–30; Paul Marantz, From Lenin to Gorbachev: Changing Soviet Perspectives on East-West Relation?, Ottawa, Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security, 1988, Occasional Paper no. 4, pp. 59–88.

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  5. Gorbachev’s speech to the Twenty-Seventh Party Congress in February 1986 contains the most comprehensive statement of the central principles of the ‘new thinking’, Kommunis?, 1986, no. 4, pp. 5–80.

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  11. Ibid. Also see the equally hard-hitting interview with Dashichev published in Komsomolskaya pravd?, 19 June 1988, p. 3.

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  13. Ibid.

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  14. Ibid., p. 54.

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  1. Institute of Soviet and East European Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Carl G. Jacobsen (Director-designate, Head) (Director-designate, Head)

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Marantz, P. (1989). Gorbachev’s ‘New Thinking’ About East—West Relations: Causes and Consequences. In: Jacobsen, C.G. (eds) Soviet Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11341-5_2

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