Demise of the Soviet Union

Jan Hallenberg, Dr, Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of Studies, Department of Strategic Studies, Swedish National Defence College, Sweden Education - Master of Economics and Business Administration, 1971, Gothenburg School of Economics and Business Administration - Political Science, 1972-1975, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University - Visiting Fellow, 1980-1981, Center of International Studies, Princeton University - Ph.D., 1985, Stockholm University - Visiting Fellow, 1987-1988, Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University - Visiting Scholar - Overseas Americanists, Autumn 1992, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California - Berkeley; - Guest Researcher, Institute for Security Studies, Western European Union, Paris, February - March 2000

’Professor Hallenberg’s original and careful investigation sheds new light not only on the analysis of foreign policy but also on the utility of social science scholarship for future-oriented purposes. His empirical study of the attempts of contemporary politicians, journalists, and academics in the West to come to grips with the implications of the Gorbachev phenomenon should be essential reading for people in all three categories.’ Kjell Goldmann, Professor of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden

• Contents: Introduction; The setting: relations with the Soviet Union, Sovietology and an historical outline; Official analysis of the Soviet Union 1985-1991; The analysis of Gorbachev’s foreign policy in eight elite newspapers; The Sovietologists; Conclusion: to analyze the collapse of a state; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.