This volume provides research and analysis to understand the role of the former Soviet Union and its involvement in the global economy through the end of the Gorbachev period. It lays essential groundwork for understanding the issues and problems encountered in the contemporary marketization efforts to reform and overhaul the planned economies of Russia and the republics.
Various essays provide analyses of Gorbachev's foreign economic reforms and their origins; the relationship of the republics to the world market (highlighting their strengths and weaknesses in terms of their domestic economies and import-export structures); foreign trade reforms under Gorbachev; economic relations of the former Soviet Union with the EEC; and the U. S. S. R.'s changing economic relationship with the Third WOrld (Latin America in particular). A case study of a major joint venture project is provided. Also included is a chronology of foreign economic policy decrees shaping the market reform effort. The essays in this volume address political and economic problems associated with the integration of formerly planned economies into the world market system. This book will be of interest to political scientists specializing in international politics, Russian and Eastern European specialists, and economists interested in the area of the world once known as the Soviet Union.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction
The Origins of Gorbachev's Foreign Economic Policy by Deborah Anne Palmieri
Soviet Foreign Trade Reforms Under Gorbachev by William E. Schmickle
Soviet Interrepublican Trade: Domestic Patterns and International Possibilities by Jonathan R. Schiffer
Gorbachev's "Common European Home" and the Politics of Reform by Peter J. Stavrakis
International Relations Theory and Soviet Conduct toward the Multilateral Global-Economic Organizations: GATT, IMF and the World Bank by Robert M. Cutler
"New Thinking" and Soviet Economic Involvement in Latin America: Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina by Sharyl Cross
SOVAMINCO: Joint Venture Case Study by Suzanne L. Hugger-DeCesare
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
Index
