Abstract
Like a number of the new foreign policy concepts put forward by the Gorbachev administration, the Soviet idea of the 'Common European Home', much used in Gorbachev's recent diplomacy towards Western Europe, has been greeted in the West with puzzlement and some mistrust. As the Common European Home project clashes very markedly with traditional Soviet foreign policy thinking, this is not really surprising. But since 1985 there has been a striking change in Soviet doctrine about international relations: a shift from hard-nosed 'realism' to a way of thinking that appears to be based on the idea of an international society held together by shared interests and values. Recent Soviet 'Europeanism' has nonetheless been interpreted in the West as a smokescreen for plans to prise Germany away from the Western alliance or to pull Western Europe and America apart. Gorbachev's response has been that he has no 'wedge-driving' intentions:
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