ISBN: 026268022X 
Godina izdanja: 1973
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Robin Alison Remington - The Warsaw Pact: Case Studies in Communist Conflict Resolution
MIT Press, 1973
268 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro, signed by the author

This book was written for general students of international relations as well as students of communism in a style intended to be readable. The research was based on the assumption that efficiency in the operation of any political alliance, indeed any institution, whether it be a school board, the US Supreme Court, the United Nations, or the Catholic Church, depends upon an accurate assessment of the adjustments that must be made and the ability to make them.

The Warsaw Pact is a study of how a Communist regional defense alliance responded to conflict among its member states. It has been written with an awareness that, given the nature of Communist ideology, much of the relationship between Communist states depends upon party activities rather than joint institutions.

Robin Remington analyses the changing role of the Warsaw Pact-a Communist regional institution during the period from its formation in 1955 to early in 1969 to provide information necessary for future comparative analyses of regional coalitions. Rather than systematically exploring Soviet-East European relations, the book focuses on conflict situations and challenges to Soviet authority-specifically, Rumania and Czechoslovakia.
Soviet-Rumanian differences were contained without resort to military intervention. What went wrong in Czechoslovakia? The answer to that question is important for understanding the nature of Com-munist East Europe and for analysing current possibilities for all-European cooperation. In exploring the question, the book emphasizes problems that apply to Communist and non-Communist alliances alike: (1) In what way was the institution of the alliance itself involved in these instances of conflict among its member states? (2) Did this differ from the role played during earlier crises? The cases in question are the Polish October and Hungarian uprising of 1956 and Albanian defiance dating from 1960. (3) What effect did the conflict have on the superpower`s perception of the coalition? Did it change either the obligations or the expectations of the smaller mem-ber state? (4) Did actual changes result in the institutional form of the alliance? The book deals primarily with the role played by the Warsaw Pact in Soviet policy toward other Communist states in East Europe, and it is particularly useful in its exploration of the Pact`s increasing Importance to the Soviet Union as an instrument for containing intrablock conflict. The author suggests that, despite reassertion of Soviet authority in East Europe through armed intervention in Czechoslovakia, Moscow has grown more dependent on the Pact as a device to legitimize application of the Brezhnev doctrine. (Interestingly enough. Dr. Remington notes that at the time of the Invasion of Czechoslovakia, Soviet attitudes and policy toward the Warsaw Pact swung full circle back to Molotov`s 1954 formula.) In addition, the book treats the Pact as a multilateral instrument for furthering Soviet hegemonial and security interests in East Europe and considers its role in Soviet policy toward the Western half of Europe.
The Warsaw Pact is a volume in the series MIT Studies in Communism, Revisionism, and Revolution.

CONTENTS
List of Tables and Charts
Preface
Chronology of Warsaw Pact Meetings, 1955-1970
1. Introduction
2. Origin of the Warsaw Pact
The Importance of the CPSU Innerparty Struggle Treaty Text and Organizational Structure Military Considerations
PCC Prague Meeting
3. Hungary and Albania: Invasion versus Exclusion
The Impact of De-Stalinization
The Polish October
Soviet Rationale
The Bilateral Treaties
Hungarian Uprising and the Declaration of October 30, 1956 Initiatives from Peking Content Analysis of Warsaw Pact Documents, 1955-1958 The CPSU 22nd Congress and Thereafter
WTO Reaction
Comparison with the Cominform The Soviet-Albanian Break
De Facto Exclusion, 1962-1963
4. Rumania: A Case for Containment
The Importance of Hungary in 1956
Manoeuvring in the Late 1950s: The Issue of Soviet Troops The Moscow 1957 Meeting
Journey to Peking
The May 1958 PCC Meeting: Soviet Troops Go Home Expanding Economic Tensions The Problems of Supranational Planning Interaction of Maneuvers within CMEA and the WTO, 1962-1963 The July 1963 Conference Sino-Soviet-Rumanian Polemics 1964: Lack of Progress in `Perfecting` the WTO The New Collective Leadership: Brezhnev and Kosygin January 1965 PCC Meeting Rising Soviet Pressure East European Reaction May 1966: The Rumanian Red-Herring July 1966: The Bucharest Meeting Recognition of West Germany Spring and Summer 1967 The New WTO Commander-in-Chief A Temporary Balance
5. Czechoslovakia: Multilateral Intervention
Sofia and Dresden The May-June Maneuvers Prchlík and the Warsaw Letter Confrontation: Čierná-Bratislava Invasion The Brezhnev Doctrine October Treaty
6. Postinvasion Normalization: 1969
The Budapest Appeal Westpolitik: A Problem of Strategy The Moscow Summit: A Compromise Solution The GDR Draft Treaty Reorganization of the Joint Armed Forces
7. East Germany: The Politics of Persuasion The Politics of Inter-German Talks The Role of the Enemy: Escalating Sino-Soviet Polemics The Soviet-Czechoslovak Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance
The 15th Anniversary of the Warsaw Pact Kassel and the SED 13th Central Committee Plenum
Budapest Revisited
The Sino-Soviet-Rumanian Triangle Bonn-Moscow Agreement: August 1970 The Berlin Talks Polish-West German Treaty and the roth MSZMP Congress Warsaw Pact Meeting in East Berlin
8. Conclusions
The Political Balance Sheet On the Military Side Summary The Comparative Focus Santo Domingo and Prague
DOCUMENTS
1. The Warsaw Treaty
2. Session of Political Consultative Committee of Warsaw Treaty States Communiqué
3. Bucharest Declaration on Strengthening Peace and Security in Europe
4. In the Interests of European Security
5. Communiqué of the Conference of the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact States
6. Statement on the Nonproliferation Treaty of the Warsaw Pact States
7. The Budapest Appeal: Message from Warsaw Pact States to All European Countries
8. Statement of the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Warsaw Pact Member-States
9. Moscow Summit Meeting of the Leaders of the Fraternal Countries
10. Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Aid between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
11. `Combat Fraternity`
12. Communiqué of the Conference of Foreign Ministers of Warsaw Pact Member-States
13. Memorandum on Questions Related to the Convocation of an All-European Conference
14. Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Aid between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Socialist Republic of Rumania
15. Statement on Questions of the Strengthening of Security and the Development of Peaceful Cooperation in Europe
Postscript
Bibliography
Index


Nonfiction, Political Science