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Foreign policy benefits from subsidization of trade with Eastern Europe / Benjamin Zycher.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Zycher, Benjamin.
- Series:
- R (Rand Corporation).
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology transfer--United States.
- Technology transfer.
- Technology transfer--Europe, Eastern.
- Joint ventures--United States.
- Joint ventures.
- Joint ventures--Europe, Eastern.
- United States--Foreign economic relations--Europe, Eastern.
- United States.
- Europe, Eastern--Foreign economic relations--United States.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 45 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [1989].
- Summary:
- This study examines economic policy tools with which the United States or NATO collectively might reduce the prospective political/military reliability of the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact (NSWP). It argues that growing long-term economic relations between the NSWP and the West could have just such an adverse effect on reliability from the Soviet viewpoint. Since a reduction in NSWP reliability is consistent with a strengthening of deterrence, promotion of growing economic ties with Eastern Europe may serve U.S. and NATO interests. This policy would differ from the current "differentiation" policy pursued by the United States in that it would not attempt to shape NSWP behavior through a system of positive and negative incentives. Instead, it would attempt to exacerbate Soviet concerns about NSWP political and military reliability by expanding economic ties between the NSWP and the West in a long-term evolutionary fashion. The author identifies four examples of areas for trade expansion with Eastern Europe: pollution control equipment, nuclear power safety equipment, medical supplies and equipment, and promotion of joint business ventures.
- Notes:
- "R-3566-USDP." "Prepared for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy." "National Defense Research Institute"--Cover "February 1989."
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