Chapter 10: Agri-Food Trade Between the United States and Russia: From Divergence to Irrelevance
Journal: Palgrave advances in bioeconomy: economics and policies
Year: 2021

Abstract This chapter investigates the impact of political relations on U.S. food exports to the Soviet Union and Russia. The chapter finds that during the Cold War, political relations between the United States and Russia and agricultural trade were divergent, which means that food trade was not much affected by poor relations. In the post-Soviet period, the relationship between politics and agricultural exports has become convergent, which means that political relations and U.S. exports move i