Economic Statecraft during the Cold War - European Responses to the US Trade Embargo (Hardcover)

In 1948, the United States banned most of its exports to the Soviet Union in the belief that it would hinder the expansion of Soviet military potential. It then became a condition for European countries receiving the US Marshall Aid to impose similar bans. This new book casts an important light on how this affected the US/British relationship, as well as providing insights to the changing emphasis between the Republican and Democrat administrations on this key question of trade embargo, by explaining how the firm consistency in the application of the US policy over the succeeding decades of the Cold War was maintained. European trade links with the former Russia, and between the USSR and its satellite countries, had existed for centuries. Britain in particular relied on Soviet coarse grain and pine timber, Holland required Polish coal and they all required Rumanian oil. Lists of goods to be banned were prepared and a bureaucracy was established in Paris, the Committee to Control East/West Trade, shortened to COCOM. The US thereafter negotiated with the Europeans about what to include or exclude from these lists with the Europeans seeking shorter and the US longer lists. did not go to those countries evading their obligations. This study follows the details of these negotiations with a close focus on the British position as it swung from support to opposition to the US pressures. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of intelligence and security studies and to all those with an interest in Cold War history.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cold War History
Release date:	October 2006
First published:	December 2006
Authors:	Frank Cain
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-37002-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-37002-7
Barcode:	9780415370028

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