"Published under the auspices of the Center for International and Strategic Affairs (CISA), University of California, Los Angeles and of the Program of Soviet and East European Studies (PSES), Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey."

Modeling Soviet defense decisionmaking / Arthur J. Alexander -- The Stalinist legacy in Soviet national security decisionmaking / Vernon V. Aspaturian -- The politics of defense in the Soviet Union / Demitri K. Simes -- The historical legacy in Soviet weapons development / Jerry F. Hough -- Defense R & D policymaking in the USSR / Ellen Jones -- The Soviet military and SALT / Raymond L. Garthoff -- Soviet Decisionmaking on Czechoslovakia, 1968 / Jiri Valenta -- Soviet decisionmaking in the Yom Kippur War, 1973 / Galia Golan -- Soviet decisionmaking on Afghanistan, 1979 / Jiri Valenta -- Risk aversion in Soviet decisionmaking / Dennis Ross -- Soviet national securiy decisionmaking / Stephen M. Meyer -- The study of Soviet decisionmaking for national security / William C. Potter.