Economic statecraft during the Cold War
Subtitle: European responses to the US trade embargo
By: Frank Cain
Series: Cass series--Cold War history -- 13
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Economic history -- 20th century; World politics -- 1945-1989; Cold War -- Economic aspects -- Europe; Cold War -- Economic aspects -- United States; Cold War -- Economic aspects -- Soviet Union
Description: "Using new archive materials to examine an aspect of the Cold War rarely discussed elsewhere, this volume follows the details of these trade negotiations and analyses the conflicts arising between the Europeans and the US administrations over the US restrictions of their commercial operations."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-207) and index
Table of contents: title: The evolution of America's Cold War planning; title: America and the European trade embargo; title: Expansion of the trade war under the impact of the Korean War; title: The firming of Cold War tensions and the effects of the trade war; title: America faces European demands for changes to CoCom : pressures from Germany, France and Britain; title: American flexibility in conducting economic warfare; title: US handling of the European trade expansion; title: Dealing with European dissent; title: The Johnson years of innovation; title: The Johnson-Nixon era in trade controls; title: The Nixon administration and the openings to the East; title: Nixon and high-technology trade control; title: Relaxation of restrictions on communist trading