European Long-Term Investments in Détente
European Long-Term Investments in Détente

The Implications of East-West Economic Cooperation

Author(s): Werner D. Lippert
Subject(s): Political history, International relations/trade, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: Cold War;East-West trade;Economic cooperation
Summary/Abstract: Considering such agitation against East-West contact by the Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev over the unrest in Czechoslovakia,Brezhnev’s strong advocacy of trade with the West in his efforts to clinch a deal in the context of the Conference on Security and Cooperation seems all the more remarkable. Such vacillations between political confrontation and pro-trade approaches were not Brezhnev’s alone, but played out in Western capitals as well, and speak to the amorphous balance sheet trade with an adversary can have on a country’s foreign policy.

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