Increased international trade, and the lowering of barriers to such trade, frequently results in improved international relations, but it can also lead to trade wars and tariff disputes. RAND research explores bilateral and multilateral economic relations; describes how they affect global alliances, globalization, and the economic health of nations; and recommends methods to develop, encourage, and maintain these relations among diverse nations and cultures.
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Since 1990, the European Union has provided support to the current Central and Eastern European candidate member states through the use of the
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This volume offers the first comprehensive statement by a contingent of leading RAND thinkers on the contours of a redefined Atlantic partnership. In the world emerging since the end of the Cold War, the United States and Europe have strikingly commo...
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In each of the subjects, policy issues, and interactions addressed in the book, Wolf focuses on a specific economic fact, theory, or assumption the pivot thereafter elaborating and relating it to the applicable political context.
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The authors make projections about how the role of the state in the market will be reshaped on both sides of the Atlantic in order to help policymakers anticipate and avoid points of friction.
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Russia and Ukraine are struggling to change over from command to market economies. Both are heirs to protectionist policies that for years supported the weight of a mammoth military-industrial complex. This book investigates the defense sector's key ...
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Regional specialists and European security analysts unite in a comprehensive analysis of changes in the Balkans and the security dilemmas they present to Western policy. Special attention is given to the roles that NATO, the European Community, and t...
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For both the United States and Japan, the changing circumstances of the world economy since the 1970s have brought into sharp focus the need to restructure industry. This book provides new insights into the subject of industrial restructuring. It com...
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In 1944, an international conference was convened in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to lay out a framework for international economic relations in the postwar world.
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Considers the possible development of an independent convertible currency and other foreign exchange and trade policies that can contribute to Hainan's goals of close interaction and integration with the economy of mainland China and with the international economy.
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Re-examines the data from two price surveys conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
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This paper considers the connections between East-West economic relations on the one hand, and Soviet international behavior on the other. The author examines the writings and statements of six well-known policymakers and commentators to derive the r...
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This paper outlines the interrelations between economic factors, domestic or international, and Soviet foreign and military policy. The subject is considered in different arenas of Soviet involvement: Eastern Europe, East-West relations, and the Thir...
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The United States uses various military, diplomatic, and economic means in dealing with the Soviet Union. This Note examines policies toward the Soviets that apply economic suasion by manipulating international trade.
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Lays the theoretical groundwork for estimates of resource flows to the Communist World resulting from Western trade policy.
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Analyzes international arms transfers and indigenous arms production by embedding these activities in a framework of economic, diplomatic, and political incentives and constraints.
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Events of the late 1960's and early 1970's resulted in significant changes in the international system. According to numerous policy-makers, these changes were at least in part due to increased economic interdependence.
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Indonesia and Vietnam are future candidates for regional power status in the Western Pacific. Although both receive economic aid, neither is willing to grant strategic advantages to their supporters.
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It is argued that a flexible exchange rate system (1) will not require deflation to restore equilibrium to the external balance and therefore not infringe on national autonomy, (2) will not impose increased costs on the foreign trade sector, and (3) ...
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An econometric analysis of criteria for choosing multination trade groupings, in those cases where such groupings are believed to be advantageous. Customarily, these groupings are based on regional criteria that stress geographic proximity as a means...
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Projects a postwar South Vietnam controlled by Hanoi's Communist regime.
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