Socialist Countries Face the European Community
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- ISBN 9783631648025
- Weight: 390g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 2014
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the early 1970s, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) began to revise its trade policy towards the outside world. It needed to counter the European Community’s bid to implement its Common Commercial Policy and thereby change East-West trade practices. Foreign trade priorities became at once a crucial issue on the socialist countries’ political agenda. The key question was whether they would have to open their system to the global economy – and bear the consequent pressures and competition that this decision entailed. Based on newly declassified archival sources, this study shows how the East European states were able to lobby their positions towards the USSR within the CMEA. The pressure from its allies forced the Soviet leadership to accept the CMEA’s opening towards the EC.
Suvi Kansikas received her doctorate at the University of Helsinki. Currently she is a researcher at the Academy of Finland’s Centre of Excellence Choices of Russian Modernisation at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.
