Capsule Review Spring 1984 Issue

Beyond Containment: Alternative American Policies Toward the Soviet Union

Edited by Aaron Wildavsky
Reviewed by Gaddis Smith

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Beyond Containment: Alternative American Policies Toward the Soviet Union

Edited by Aaron Wildavsky
Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1983
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Several authors in separate essays identify and advocate variations on the policy of containment: selective, moderate, extended, dynamic, etc. Mr. Wildavsky prefers "maximal" containment which is global in scope and includes measures to bring about "pluralization" within the Soviet Union as a means of "weakening its aggressive intent."