"Revised and expanded version [published in 1980 under title: The Soviet Union in world politics]"

Part I. The nature of Soviet foreign policy : a conceptual framework --Totalitarianism in foreign policy / Leonard Schapiro -- The Soviet Union and the rules of the international game / Adam B. Ulam -- Part II. Regional case studies on the impact of Soviet foreign policy -- Eastern Europe / Hugh Seton-Watson -- Western Europe / Alfred Grosser -- The Middle East / Malcolm Mackintosh -- East Asia / Harold C. Hinton -- Southeast Asia / Guy J. and Ewa T. Pauker -- South Asia / William J. Barnds -- Latin America / Leon Goure -- The United States / Charles Burton Marshall -- Part III. Soviet global strategy -- Soviet military strategy and policy / Thomas W. Wolfe -- Part IV. The Soviet foreign policy network -- Summary and conclusions / Kurt London.