Books by Christopher I. Xenakis

Introduces students to basic concepts in world politics. This book addresses common misperceptions and their impact on foreign policy, and explores forms of bureaucratic dysfunction in key American agencies. The text gives readers the conceptual tools they need to decide for themselves what they believe about vital and perplexing issues.

Xenakis examines the responses of Soviet experts in American academia-primarily political scientists, but also economists and defense scholars who specialized in the USSR-to the unfolding evidence of Soviet reform during the 1970s and 1980s and to its ultimate collapse.