1st Edition

The Politics Of Eastwest Trade

By Gordon B Smith Copyright 1985
267 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

267 Pages
by Routledge

Trade and technology transfer have come to occupy a major role in Soviet-American relations. Twice in recent years embargoes have been imposed on the sale of U.S. high technology to the U.S.S.R., and these sanctions have had wide-ranging political and economic consequences in the Soviet Union, Europe, and the United States. The Politics of East-West Trade draws together leading U.S. and European... Read more
Also of Interest -- Preface -- The Politics of East-West Trade -- Quantification of Western Exports of High-Technology Products to the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe -- The Impact of Technology Transfer on Production and Productivity in the U.S.S.R.: The Case of the Ferrous Metals Industry -- Comparative Advantage in Soviet Grain and Energy Trade -- The Impact of U.S. Export Controls on the Soviet Computer Industry -- The Soviet Response to the American Embargo of 1981-82: The Case of Compressors for the Export Gas Pipeline -- Long-Term Agreement (LTA): Some Considerations for Agricultural Trade* -- East-West Trade, Technology Transfer, and Western Security* -- Assessing the Cost to the U.S. Economy of Trade Sanctions Against the U.S.S.R. -- Reaction of the Private Sector to U.S. Foreign Trade Policies Towards the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe* -- The Western Alliance and East-West Trade: In Pursuit of an Integrated Strategy -- East-West Trade: A European Perspective -- The Future of East-West Trade

Biography

Gordon B. Smith is associate professor in the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina. He is co-editor (with Peter B. Maggs and George Ginsburgs) of Law and Soviet Economic Development (Westview, 1982).