Abstract
In Brecher’s research design, presented in the preceding chapter, he isolates ten variables which serve as inputs into the decision-making process, including five external and five internal variables. The military capability, including geostrategic considerations, and the economic capability, including the demographic input, are dealt with in this chapter, as is ideology and the various influences from the external system. The inputs emanating from the Soviet Union’s political structure, and the role within it of competing elites and interests groups, are analysed in Chapter 7.
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Dawisha, K. (1979). The Influences on Soviet Policy. In: Soviet Foreign Policy towards Egypt. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04187-9_6
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