Technology Transfer and East-West Relations
Technology Transfer and East-West Relations

Author: Mark Schaffer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-09

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1351118080

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Originally published in 1985, in the deteriorating climate of East-West relations technology transfer became vitally important. The Eastern bloc desperately needed Western technology to assist in the development of the socialist economies, but a proposed US ban on the export of Western technology to the Siberian pipeline project led to increasing tension within the Western alliance abot the nature and scale of high technology that could be safely exported to the East. This book reviews the state of technology transfer to the East in the 1980s and considers the place of Western technology in the Eastern economies. It also discusses the strategic goals of Western technology embargoes. Many of the issues discussed remain pertinent today.

East, West, North, South
East, West, North, South

Author: Geir Lundestad

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005-01-26

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781412907484

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'International relations textbooks share a similar risk of always speaking in the same voice. Not because of multi-handling, but instead thanks to a frequently impenetrable, introverted discourse about theory. This makes Geir Lundestad's book so welcome. He pays due homage to the important contribution of theory in the development of International Relations as a discipline, while escaping the standard focus on realism, liberalism and constructivism. Instead, he uses various branches of explanatory theory to provide an invaluable survey of world history after 1945' -Australian Journal of Political Science Fully revised and updated, the Fifth Edition of Geir Lundestad's successful textbook on the history of international politics since 1945 will serve as an ideal introduction for all students seeking an accessible guide to world events in the post-war era up to the present day. This new edition covers all the major international developments up to 2004, including a full assessment of 9/11, the 'war on terror' and the conflict in Iraq. Long established as one of the leading and enduringly popular texts on international history, East, West, North, South remains an essential companion for all students of international relations, world politics and international history.

East-West Economic Relations
East-West Economic Relations

Author: Abraham Samuel Becker

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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1982 WAS THE YEAR East-West economics became the smoldering focus of Atlantic relations. No other issue generated as much heat or as much trans-Atlantic diplomatic shuttling. 1983, in sharp contrast, has been largely devoid of conflict on this issue. Now, INF deployment and arms control have become the hinge of alliance politics. The Versailles economic summit of June 1982 was dominated by two subjects, U.S. interest rates and East-West trade. In May 1983 the Williamsburg summit communique devoted three sentences to East-West trade, and the press reports do not suggest much time was spent composing them. Has the explosiveness of East-West economics as an alliance problem been permanently defused? It might be argued that the storms of 1982 were associated with a unique conjuncture of events--the Polish crisis and the concluding phases of the gas pipeline deal. Yet, if this particular conjuncture was unique, the events were bound up with recurrent issues. So it was in the past and so it seems likely to be in the future.