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in policy direction and a consequent reassessment of security strategy.

However, since 1985, and the introduction of Gorbachev?s ?new thinking?, there

has been a consistent foreign policy goal which has gradually subordinated all

other considerations to its attainment: the integration into the community of

civilised states in order to effect systemic change and regenerate the power of

the USSR/CIS. Under the government of Boris Yeltsin this tendency became ever

more pronounced. Its continuing success will determine whether reforming

liberals within the context of Russian politics, will be able to solve the

military, territorial and ethnic problems left over from the demise of the

Soviet Union, peaceably. Russia is by far the most important and powerful state

within the CIS. All other states will have to shape their foreign policy and

security considerations according to this reality for many years to come. If

Russia continues to receive adequate amounts of aid from the Western

institutions, liberal reforms will continue; the nationalist hard-liners will

be slowly isolated and their power bases eroded. The settlement of border

disputes and the protection of Russian minorities can be achieved through the

provisions of the CSCE under the

auspices of the UN. The reduction of tension in the area would allow Russia and

the other successor states to further concentrate on domestic reforms,

bilateral treaties, and a new community organised in accordance with regional

conditions. A community and bilateral

treaty network that is based on co-operation not coercion. Therefore, we must

conclude that the paramount issue in foreign policy and security confronting

Russia and the CIS is continued integration into the ?civilised community of

nations? as the best means of peaceably solving

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40 The Economist: Yeltsin?s Diplomats A New

Crimean War. 01-02-1992 P.42

The Economist: Europe?s New Minorities. 21-07-1992 P.42

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