Gorbachev’s New Thinking: Prospects For Joint Ventures

In spite of the subtitle, only one of these papers deals primarily with joint ventures. It mainly calls for a better understanding of the usefulness of compensation agreements. Another study says that disappointment with compensation agreements is among the reasons Japanese-Soviet ventures in the Far East are not doing well. In other papers, a number of academics and three intelligence officials reflect familiar Western thinking about what perestroika is all about and how far it may go.