The Other Side of Arms Control; Soviet Objectives in the Gorbachev Era

xviii, [2], 325, [7] pages. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed on the fep by the author. Inscription reads To Nelson Ledsky With best wishes Alan Sherr 12/88. Cover has some wear and soiling. Alan B. Sherr is an American lawyer, specializing in the field of Intellectual Property, International Corporate Law, Russian Corporate Law, Administrative Law. Nelson C. Ledsky was the director of National Democratic Initiative (NDI)'s Eurasia programs for many years and a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service who retired with the rank of ambassador. Upon his retirement from the State Department in 1992, Ambassador Ledsky joined NDI, where he took over the reins of the Institute's nascent democratic development program in Eurasia and built it into an operation with activities and partners in more than a dozen countries and a first-rate reputation for navigating challenging political environments. He served in the White House from 1987 to 1989 as a special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for European and Soviet Affairs, and held numerous other State Department posts, including principal deputy director of the policy planning staff, U.S. minister in Berlin, deputy assistant secretary for congressional relations and director for Southern Europe. He was also director of the State Department's Olympic Boycott Office in 1980 - 1981 and had postings in Bonn, Germany; Enugu, Nigeria; and Georgetown, Guyana. How does the Soviet Union view the costs and benefits of nuclear arms control? What factors motivate Soviet negotiations with the Western world on this crucial issue? And what, precisely, does the Soviet Union hope to accomplish through nuclear arms control? Originally published in 1988, The Other Side of Arms Control provides an in-depth examination of this too infrequently discussed aspect of the arms race and the ongoing negotiations to halt it. In The Other Side of Arms Control, Alan B. Sherr argues that the time is now right for significant substantive progress to be made on nuclear arms control: the Soviet leadership under Mikhail Gorbachev has demonstrated greater flexibility and willingness to compromise on a number of difficult issues, including verification. But more important, circumstances within and outside the Soviet Union now make progress on arms control crucial to Soviet political and economic goals as well as foreign policy objectives. Written in accessible, nontechnical language, The Other Side of Arms Control will be of historical interest to students, teachers, policymakers, and others concerned with the future of nuclear arms control.…