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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hunter, David W. (David William) Western trade pressure on the Soviet Union. London : Macmillan, 1991 (OCoLC)988374195 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David W Hunter |
ISBN: | 0333539052 9780333539057 |
OCLC Number: | 22887845 |
Description: | xii, 163 pages : illustrations |
Contents: | Part 1 Economic sanctions - pre-World War II through Cold War: The League of Nations; World War 2; export controls and the co-ordinating committee; the Korean War; dropping the CHINCOM differential. Part 2 East-West economic relations (1960-1985): the pipeline embargo; the Soviet grain sale; the Cuban embargo; President Nixon's decontrol of trade with The People's Republic of China; the 1970s era of detente; Afghanistan; martial law in Poland; the Versailles summit. Part 3 A conceptual framework of sanctions: anatomy of power; sanctions; symbolic vs instrumental sanctions; measures of effectiveness; instrumental sanctions; symbolic sanctions. Part 4 Economic dimensions of sanctions: patterns of trade flow; types of economic sanctions - export trade sanctions, boycotts, import trade sanctions, embargoes, financial sanctions; economic impact on the target state - short and long-term elasticity of demand, "Absolute Need" for the product, the structure of the target's economy. Part 5 Political significance of economic sanctions: alliance management - the Urengoi pipeline; sanctions as a form of deterrence - the imposition of martial law in Poland; domestic political objectives - the Jackson-Vanik amendment; political effects of economic sanctions. Part 6 Sanctions and East-West confrontation: the USSR - "Target State" - authoritarianism, nationalism (and Pan-Slavicism), economic profile, Eastern European ties; the western alliance - "Sanctioner States" - perspectives on detente, foreign policy independence within the alliance, shared "Burden" of economic sanctions, decision-making vacuum in East-West framework. Part 7 politico-economic prescription for East-West relations in an interdependent world: diagnosis of interdependence; how much interdependence is strategically wise?, how do we structure trade relations with the USSR for economic security; prognosis for the role of commercial policy in managing East-West relations; what decision-making structure is required?. |
Responsibility: | David W. Hunter. |
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Related Subjects:(17)
- East-West trade.
- Soviet Union -- Foreign economic relations.
- Pays de l'Est.
- Commerce extérieur.
- Relations économiques internationales.
- Relations extérieures.
- Commerce Est-Ouest.
- URSS.
- Europe occidentale.
- Economische betrekkingen.
- Wirtschaftssanktion.
- Sowjetunion.
- Westliche Welt.
- Foreign trade
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Soviet Union -- Economic relations with Western bloc countries
- Western bloc countries -- Economic relations with Soviet Union