Abstract:
To examine the adjustment of the Gorbachev regime toward the Third World, the International
Research Council of CSIS, headed by Quarterly Editor Walter Laqueur, convened a meeting on the issue. Presented as
a roundtable, the views of some commentators provide a glimmer of what lies in store in the coming years for Soviet
foreign policy in the Third World.
As regularly as clockwork, a new Soviet leadership goes through a process of reevaluation toward the Third World.
Over the horizon, but constantly on their agenda, the less-developed regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America beckon
the Soviets into geopolitical hazards and opportunities to score against the West.
