1st Edition

Economic Statecraft during the Cold War European Responses to the US Trade Embargo

By Frank Cain Copyright 2007
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Discussing a rarely researched aspect of the Cold War, this volume uses new material to examine how the United States trade embargo on the Soviet Union and communist China severed relationships with Europe, particularly focusing on Great Britain. In the late 1940s, the US government stopped nearly all exports to the entire Sino-Soviet bloc in the belief that it would hinder the expansion of... Read more

1. US, Europe and the Developing Perceptions of the Cold War  2. Concepts of the Economic Warfare in the  Late 1940s Chapter  3. Winning European Allies for the US Initiative  4. Reactions by Europeans against US Proposals  5. Punishing the Dissenters  6. Effectiveness of CHINCOM  7. Europeans Objections against the US Regulators  8. Sino-Soviet Advances in Technology  9. Developing Computer Technologies and the US Reactions  10. The Fading of COCOM and the Reagan Revival

Biography

Frank Cain teaches Australian History at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia where he also teaches courses on Intelligence History, the History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies. He is the author of numerous journal articles on Intelligence History, the History of the Great Depression in New South Wales, the History of the Impact of Venona on Australian politics and Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War.