Milton Leitenberg has done us a great service. His balanced and
comprehensive reconstruction of the history of Soviet submarine
operations in Swedish waters will benefit all students of Soviet
policy and practice in Northern Europe. The accompanying
discussions of the domestic and international political contexts
within which those submarine operations were perceived, responded
to, and reported on, doubles the value of the work. The full Soviet
military rationale for those operations may remain somewhat
elusive, but Leitenberg has clearly provided us with a cogent
description of their political consequences. Robert G. Weinland,
Consultant, Washington, D.C The book first presents a comprehensive
account of the overall incidence of violations, not only in Sweden
but in other countries as well, between 1970 and 1987. The author
then shows that the provisional, more exploratory stages of the
operations in Sweden apparently began well before 1980 and have
continued despite the Soviet Union's public campaign for a Nordic
Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone. An analysis of the incursions is given
next, including a look at Sweden's response to a problem it may not
have anticipated when its own preconceptions and the norms of
international behavior were clearly contradicted by reality. Also
discussed are the motives behind the Soviet submarine operations
and various provocation theories.
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