Die Vereinigten Staaten und die Sowjetunion im Wandel der Weltpolitik
The United States and the Soviet Union in Changing Global Politics

Summary/Abstract: The following text essentially reproduces a lecture that the author gave on September 26, 1979 at the branch office of the German Society for Eastern European Studies in Bonn and which expanded and updated a report that was published on October 19, 1978 in the "Working Group for Eastern West issues of the Foreign Office had been discussed. A third version of its content was presented on January 15, 1980 at the Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg; only in this last version, which is taken into account here, could the Iranian-Afghan double crisis be included in the consideration. The autumn of 1979 remains the starting point for the historical review of American-Soviet relations.

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