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101 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1886-1986)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry101 and id is 1 raw text is: Gorbachev and Obstacles Toward D6tente PHILIP D. STEWART The November 1985 Geneva summit meeting between General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan has revived the hopes of many for a United States-Soviet d6tente similar to that of the early 1970s. Reagan administration officials indicate privately that they see the summit as showing Soviet readiness for rapid progress toward agreements sub- stantially reducing strategic nuclear weapons on both sides, while foregoing their previous insistence on a simultaneous ban on the United States' Strategic De- fense Initiative. The Soviet willingness, expressed just prior to the summit, to re- unite a few Soviet citizens with their American spouses raises expectations for wider cooperation on humanitarian and emigration issues. While a persuasive case can be made that many opportunities for a lasting improvement in signifi- cant areas of U.S.-Soviet relations were indeed missed in the 1970s,' it is a mis- take to believe that Gorbachev's approach to relations with the United States, whether the issue be arms control, economic relations, human rights, or almost any other foreign policy question, will bear but a superficial similarity to that of the Brezhnev regime in the early 1970s. In fact, this article argues that Gor- bachev's deeply held perspectives, assumptions, and beliefs reflect a sea change in Soviet conceptions of what is possible and desirable in U.S.-Soviet relations. This change is away from notions of superpower partnership and toward greater Raymond Garthoff makes such a case in Detente and Confrontation: Anerican-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1985). PHILIP D. STEWART is professor of political science and director of the Mershon Center Program in Soviet International Behavior at the Ohio State University. He is also the coordinator of the Dartmouth Conference, a program of unofficial U.S.-Soviet policy dialogues. Political Science Quaarterly Volumev 101 Number ICente,nnal Year 11886-986

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