*This fundamental paradigm applied in the conventional, nonnuclear arena as well. The late Johann Hoist noted that “Soviet negotiators have attempted to structure the geographical parameters for arms control regimes in Europe in a manner which will preserve for Soviet territory that privileged status of being exterior to the regime in question. The definition of the reduction zone in MBFR [mutual balanced force reductions] and the refusal to include anything more than a narrow zone of 250 km of the Soviet Union in the CSCE/CBM [Conference on Security in Europe/Confidence Building Measures] regime, indicate the way in which Moscow approaches arms control as a means for structuring the broader context of the political order.” Johann Hoist, “The NATO-Warsaw Pact Relationship?” in New Directions in Strategic Thinking, ed. Robert O'Neill and D. M. Horner (Allen & Unwin, 1981), 93.