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Discusses the barrier to improved economic and political relations presented by continuing dispute over the Kurile Islands.

Outlines the principal determinants of Central Asian security and illustrates their significance with four scenarios of Russian-Central Asian relations; US policy implications.

Prospects for overcoming the political ill-will generated by disputes over trade.

Security issues and the Northern Territories; trade, investment and technology; the security dimension; a.o. (Ausw. Amt, Bibl.)

Major changes like those that have occurred in Soviet relations with the United States, Europe and China have been absent from Soviet-Japanese relations because of the unresolved territorial dispute

Im Zuge des "Neuen Denkens" erfährt die Außenpolitik der UdSSR gegenüber Nordostasien einen Wandel. Die reine Militärpolitik der Breznev-Ära tritt in den Hintergrund. Durch Einleitung neuer Kontakte, vertrauensbildende Maßnahmen und die Intensivierung der Handelskontakte sollen die Beziehungen zur VR China und Japan und Südkorea verbessert werden. Ein umfassendes Revironment in der Funktionärsspitze der sowjetischen Außenpolitik gibt den neuen Ansätzen eine personelle Grundlage. (BIOst-Rsg)

Gorbachev's proposals on military bases, arms control, and economic cooperation involving China, Japan, and the Korean peninsula.

The advent of M. Gorbachev's new thinking has produced a Soviet strategy toward East Asia that seeks a detente with China and Japan. An essential part of this task involves settling the territorial disputes that both countries have with the USSR. The paper analyses the strategic-military choices that Soviet leaders will have to make as as they address the territorial disputes, examine possible compromises and their consequences for Soviet security and assess the overall prospects for settlement. (DÜI-Sen)