East-West Economic Relations (1960–85)

David W. Hunter

Chapter 3 in Western Trade Pressure on the Soviet Union, 1991, pp 26-40 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Following the election of Wladyslaw Gomulka as First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sought an expansion of U.S. trade with Poland in order to encourage polycentrism in Eastern Europe, but he found his hands tied by Congressional legislation. In 1957, then Senator John F. Kennedy proposed a modification of the Battle Act to allow the President more flexibility in trade with Eastern Europe in order to wean the captive nations away from their Kremlin masters. This renewed the debate over CHINCOM and raised the question of whether one could have both strategic controls and differentiated trade between Eastern Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Would anyone believe that the Soviets were denied access to a strategic product which was sold in Eastern Europe but not in the USSR?1

Keywords: Foreign Policy; European Economic Community; Credit Policy; National Security Council; Favored Nation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12002-4_3

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