What did Gorbachev mean by “de-ideologizing relations among states? What implications did this have for superpower relations?

What did Gorbachev mean by “de-ideologizing relations among states? What implications did this have for superpower relations?

http://astro.temple.edu/~rimmerma/gorbachev_speech_to_UN.htm

  1. Why did Gorbachev choose the United

Nations as his forum for this speech?

 

  • What did Gorbachev mean by “de-ideologizing relations among states? What implications did this have for superpower relations?
  • Why did he say that “force no longer can…be an instrument of foreign policy”? What implications did this have for the Soviet bloc?
  • What did he foresee as the future role of the superpowers in the world and the future relationship between them?