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Strategic Vulnerability of a Multinational State: Deterring the Soviet Union
Gary L. Guertner examines the multinational structure of the Soviet state and its resulting vulnerability in the context of the Soviet-American mutual deterrence relationship. He argues that geopolitical and ethnographic variables are as important as weapons characteristics in maintaining the stability of the strategic balance.
Three Images of Soviet Arms Control Compliance, Gary L. Guertner
Will the Non-Russians Rebel? State, Ethnicity, and Stability in the USSR, Alexander J. Motyl Reviewed by Gary L. Guertner
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