(Hardback)

This study is the first significant work to examine Soviet involvement with national liberation movements (NLMs) in Africa as a separate subcategory of Soviet foreign policy in the developing world.

(Paperback)

This work analyzes the emerging relationship between Moscow and the 15 successor states to the old USSR. These states have managed to stay largely intact and one explanation for this is the success of strategies of center-periphery relations. The book examines the cases of success and failure.