The Domestic Sources of Soviet Foreign Policy

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“The importance of the domestic political roots of foreign policy is increasingly evident,” begins a editorial in Foreign Policy dealing with the United States. The domestic sources of foreign policy behavior have indeed come to attract the attention of various analysts, observers, and actors in international affairs. In the United States, the experience of Vietnam dramatized the impact of domestic sources on foreign policy and apparently has had a lasting effect on the process of foreign policy formation, for example, in the role of the legislative branch. Historically the most frequent has been a congruence between domestic and foreign strategies and orientations. The record of Soviet foreign policy is replete with remarkable successes and stupendous failures—both successes and failures having been due in part to Soviet perception and behavior and in part to factors beyond Soviet control.

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