ECONOMIC DETENTE AND ITS DISCONTENTS THE USES OF TRADE IN SUPERPOWER POLITICS IN 1970S

ISBN: 978-83-8209-027-7

177 stron
format: A5
oprawa: twarda
Rok wydania: 2020

This book is a valuable synthesis of relations between USA and USSR in the 1970s seen through the prism of trade relations which Washington used for two distinctive purposes: as a "reward" mechanism encouraging cooperation, or conversely, as a tool of "punishment" in response to undesired activities. Such an instrumental approach to economic issues in the 1970s was not anything new in American foreign policy. The analysis of American trade policy - based on two case studies: the granting of the Most Favored Nation Status with the Jackson-Vanik Amendment (reward) and the imposition of economic sanctions after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (punishment) - serves the Author as an ideal pretext to discuss linkages between foreign and domestic spheres of politics and the intermestic nature of issues in international relations - prof. Łukasz Wordliczek.

SPIS TREŚCI

Introduction
Linkage, Intermesticity and Instrumentality.
Foreign Trade Issues in the Era of Detente

Chapter One.
Economic Relations as Foreign Policy

Chapter Two.
Status Quo Ante: The Condition of the American-
Soviet Relations Prior to Detente

Chapter Three.
The Launching of the Economic Detente and the
Congressional Interference - The Most Favored
Nation Clause and the Jackson-Vanik Amendment

Chapter Four.
Detente on the Downhill Slide - Back to
Confrontation. The Deterioration of the American-
Soviet Relations in the Latter Part of the 1970s

Chapter Five.
The Final Act. American Economic and Political
Sanctions after the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan

Conclusions
Economic Detente of the 1970s - a Look
Back at the Policy of Unfulfilled Promises and
Unwarranted Expectations
Bibliography