liana Kass examines Soviet foreign policy formulation and the activities of policy-relevant groups in the stages preceding and following the formal adoption of decisions. Soviet involvement in the Middle East in the crucial period 1966–1973 is used as a case study.
Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, this text aims to compare and contrast the historical roots, goals, strategies, organizational structures and current activities of Palestinian and Israeli opponents of any mutual compromise.
This book focuses on four official groups close to the locus of Soviet decision making—the CPSU, the governmental bureaucracy, the military, and the trade union—and examines the attitudes of these groups toward the Soviet involvement in the Middle East.