Soviet Ballistic Missile Defense and the Western Alliance by David S. Yost; Missile Defensesand Western European Security by Robert M. SooferReview by: Gregory F. TrevertonForeign Affairs, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Spring, 1989), p. 187Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20043924 .

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THE CIA AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989, 338 pp. $25.00.

This is also the season for CIA histories, and this one is both widely researched and readably short. It is strong in locating the CIA in its democratic context?the forbidding of CIA activities at home, for instance, reflected the fear of a police state, but it also made for ragged relations

between the CIA and the FBI. Unfortunately, as it is preoccupied with the Iran-contra affair, the book misses the CIA story of the 1980s: once

exceptional, the CIA has come to resemble the rest of the government in

the character of its relations with that other branch, Congress.

SOVIET BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE AND THE WESTERN AL LIANCE. By David S. Yost. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988, 405 pp. $30.00. MISSILE DEFENSES AND WESTERN EUROPEAN SECURITY. By Robert M. Soofer. Westport (Conn.): Greenwood Press, 1988, 174 pp.

After all that has been written on strategic defense, it would seem hard to contribute to the debate. Yost does so, however, and as is characteristic of his thoughtful writing, he does so by basing his conclusions for Western

policy on a meticulous and richly documented treatment of Soviet missile defense programs. Soofer's is a brief for missile defense, both strategic and

tactical, "to deny the Soviets the benefit of their nuclear and conventional

superiority." His book has the virtue of making its premises explicit?for instance, that a transition toward defense is not as dangerous as is often assumed because the Soviet Union would have no more incentive to launch a first strike then than now, and that before Moscow matched NATO's

missile defenses, NATO would have time to improve its conventional defenses.

THE NEW WIZARD WAR: HOW THE SOVIETS STEAL U.S. HIGH TECHNOLOGY?AND HOW WE GIVE IT AWAY. By Robyn Shotwell Metcalfe. Redmond (Wash.): Tempus Books, 1988, 288 pp. $17.95.

Ms. Metcalfe provides a readable account of how the Soviet Union

exploited existing or unenforced trade policies in the West, carried out their intelligence operations and deviously twisted d?tente to advance their own selfish national interests. Some sections of the book, especially the

chapters on technology diversion?for example, the Toshiba Machine

Company and the Walker spy case?are quite interesting; other sections are overwrought, with gross simplifications and cold-war stereotypes that

already seem dated. Patricia Dorff

General: Economie and Social

William Diebold, Jr. BEYOND GLOBALISM: REMAKING AMERICAN FOREIGN ECO NOMIC POLICY. By Raymond Vernon and Debora L. Spar. New York: Free Press, 1988, 246 pp. $22.95.

The opening chapter of this interesting book is a masterful account of the changes in American foreign economic policy?and the world econ

omy?since World War II. The following sections on trade, money, aid and multinationals are comprehensive but involve selectivity, which will

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