Product Description: This volume reports the findings of a conference on defence conversion, organised by the Geonomics Institute in 1992. It brought together major figures from the United States and Russia, with the intention of establishing the Charter for American-Russian Partnership and Friendship...read more

Product Description: A review of immediate policy options on a subject of broad international importance - how to feed the Soviet people in a time of collapse of Soviet central authority. Based on a Geonomics Fall 1991 seminar, 12 Western and Soviet experts argue that massive food aid from the West is, at best, a temporary solution...read more

Product Description: The euphoria of the political revolutions of 1989 is increasingly being replaced by a sober reality: building viable economic systems and transforming state enterprises into privately owned businesses in Eastern Europe is exceedingly complicated, difficult and costly...read more

Product Description: In the late 1980s and early 1990s, drastic economic reforms swept the Soviet Union. But the Soviets remain in desperate need of management, marketing, and technological skills from the West if they are to compete in the world economy...read more

Product Description: Encapsulating material from a workshop held by American, Canadian and Soviet institutions, this book describes the workshop's multilateral plan for achieving rouble convertibility by the year 2000. Recommendations include Soviet domestic price reform, the easing of US export controls, the establishment of international accounting conventions, protection of capital against currency devaluations and implementation of a US-based venture capital fund...read more

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