Western doctrines on East-West trade : theory, history, and policy
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Western doctrines on East-West trade : theory, history, and policy
Macmillan, 1992
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Bibliography: p. 256-269
Includes index
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East-West trade and technology transfer have always been linked to the issue of "national security". Western governments have therefore been reluctant to leave East-West trade to the interplay of "free market forces", choosing instead to subject interbloc commerce to use for their national political and strategic ends. Over time, East-West trade has been instrumental to the achievement of a wide range of policy objectives, from "trading the Soviets into civilization" to stimulating an already expected Soviet clampdown. Peter van Ham identifies many different Western doctrine on East-West trade, demonstrating that two basic belief systems underly these doctrines.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Economic interdependence
- the functionalist view on East-West economic relations - the origins of economic interdependence - a historical note on peace through trade
- Lloyd George's option - trading the Soviets into civilization
- creating trust and understanding - aid to the Soviet Union
- economic convergence - "these things too shall pass away"
- economic interdependence as a strategy - German Osptolitic since the late 1960s. Part 2 Economic Containment - the strategic view on East-West economic relations: the origins of economic containment - from "Cordon Sanitaire" to Iron Curtain
- economic security and the Cold War - selective peace and prosperity
- economic warfare - better safe than sorry
- the strategic embargo - Western economic defence
- economic linkage - what to link?
- economic strategies of differentiation - evoking the Yalta myth.
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