The Demise of the Soviet Union: Analysing the Collapse of a State Book

	List of Tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
	The Analysis of the Role of Perceptions in International Relations	8
	Explanation and Prediction in International Relations	14
	The Comparative Analysis of States: Five Hypotheses	29
	Choice of States to Analyse	31
	Operational Choices	32
	The Structure of the Book	37
Ch. 2	The Setting: Relations with the Soviet Union, Sovietology and an Historical Outline	39
	Relations with the Soviet Union in Four Countries	39
	Sovietology	52
	A Chronology of Soviet Affairs 1985-1991	56
Ch. 3	Official Analysis of the Soviet Union 1985-1991	66
	France	66
	Great Britain	76
	Sweden	80
	The United States	88
Ch. 4	The Analysis of Gorbachev's Foreign Policy in Eight Elite Newspapers	109
	The French Newspapers	110
	The British Newspapers	121
	The Swedish Newspapers	133
	The U.S. Newspapers	143
Ch. 5	The Sovietologists	160
	Sovietologists in the Four Countries	161
Ch. 6	Conclusion: To Analyse the Collapse of a State	252
	Foreign Policy Orientation	254
	The Role of Perceptions	259
	Explanation and Prediction	260
	The Use of Theories and Models for Empirical Analyses	266
	The Limits of Expertise: Analysing the Evolving European Security Structure	268
App. 1	The Sovietologists	274
App. 2	Empirical Material	276
App. 3	Important Speeches by the Politicians	293
App. 4	Quotes from the Sovietologists	302
App. 5	Official Foreign Policy Spokespersons Analysed	308
	Bibliography	310
	Index	317