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For Immediate Release	January 7, 1996					
 
Russian Foreign Policy Examined in Opening of Lawrence University Lecture
Series
 
 
APPLETON, WIS. -- William Zimmerman, professor of political science and
director of the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan,
opens Lawrence University's special two-month, six-part lecture series, "Russia
and Europe in Transition," Thursday Jan. 16.  Zimmerman's address, "Moscow: 
Soviet and Russian Foreign Policies Compared," at 7 p.m. in Lawrence's Main
Hall, Room 109 is free and open to the public.  

In his remarks, Zimmerman will discuss Russia's fall from the ranks of "world
power" to that of mere "regional power."  He also will examine Russia's
transition from a political economy to a free-market economy and how that
transition is producing a foreign policy far different than that employed by
the former Soviet Union. 

Zimmerman has written widely on international relations, including the 1992
book, "Beyond the Soviet Threat:  Rethinking American Security Policy in a New
Era."  His book, "Behavior, Culture and Conflict in World Politics," was
published in 1994. 

Zimmerman joined the Michigan faculty in 1963 and has served as program
director of its Center for Political Studies since 1989.  He earned his
bachel's degree at Swarthmore College and his doctorate at Columbia University.