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The Superpowers and Regional Tensions: The USSR, the United States, and Europe

William E. Griffith
Reviewed by Robert E. Osgood
Spring 1982
The Superpowers and Regional Tensions: The USSR, the United States, and Europe
William E. Griffith
Lexington Books
1982
135 pp.
$18.95
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A knowledgeable overview of East-West relations as of mid-1981, with a particular focus on Europe, East and West. Griffith believes, quite correctly, that the Western alliance is now in a long-term crisis of a new magnitude.

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