Product Description: This volume contains a number of analyses of the present global situation and provides a reasoned preview of likely macro-economic developments during the next decade in the relations between East and West. It is based on the 1988 11th Workshop on East-West European Economic Interaction...read more

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Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With the collapse of the USSR, fifteen fledgling sates inherited a massive Soviet arsenal, unstable political systems, and desperate economies. A "sell everything" mentality threatens to result in the largest arms bazaar in human history, and this potential "fire sale" includes weapons of mass destruction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Almost overnight, the massive military-industrial assets of the Soviet Union came under the jurisdiction of fifteen states instead of one established government. While only four states inherited weapons of mass destruction, most of the fifteen states of the former Soviet Union can produce sensitive materials and equipment. Because all the states serve as transit points for both legal commerce and illegal smuggling, developing export control systems in all the newly independent states (NIS) has become the cornerstone of the global effort to reduce the risk of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Arms on the Market is the first book to tackle this difficult subject. Not only does it explore the various theoretical approaches that help us understand the development of export control systems in the nis, but it also introduces a unique method for measuring and comparing export control development. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The editors of this book have gathered writings from various contributors who discuss American and Japanese views of nonproliferation export controls. Readers will see the U.S.'s perspective and the Japanese perspective on controlling the export of dual-use items for military security reasons and trading these items for economic benefits...read more

Product Description: Like many cold war artifacts, the West’s export control policies and institutions are being reevaluated after the tumult in the communist world at the end of the 1980s. Policymakers and scholars are being forced to reexamine the premises of export control policy and the very concept of export controls as a tool of national security and foreign policy...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together some of the West's leading experts to reconsider East-West trade and technology transfer policies "after the revolutions". Among the issues examined are recent changes in US export control policy, the export control implications of EC 1992, and the future of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) through which the West's stategic embargo of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe has been formulated for the past 40 years...read more

Product Description: This story, published thirty years ago, remains extremely relevant to this day in that the author envisioned all problems related to the thankless task of nation-building in a multiethnic and multicultural Yugoslavia.