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Faultlines of Conflict in Central Asia and the South Caucasus: Implications for the U.S. Army 2003
Russia and Caspian Oil: Moscow Loses Control 1998
Russia and economic integration in the CIS 1997
Intelligence Fiasco or Reasoned Accounting? CIA Estimates of Soviet GNP 1995
Russia and Her Neighbors: Symposium Report 1992
The Soviet Political System in Crisis: Symposium Report 1990
Managing U.S.-Soviet Relations in the 1990s 1989
Gorbachev's program for economic modernization and reform: some important political-military implications 1987
Ogarkov's Complaint and Gorbachev's Dilemma: The Soviet Defense Budget and Party-Military Conflict 1987
U.S.-Soviet Trade in the 1980s 1987
The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union : a report from the Airlie House conference 1986
Soviet Central Decisionmaking and Economic Growth: A Summing Up 1986
The Soviet Union and the Third World: The Economic Dimension 1986
Economic factors affecting Soviet foreign and defense policy: a summary outline 1985
Sitting on bayonets : the Soviet defense burden and the slowdown of Soviet defense spending 1985
Economic Leverage on the Soviet Union in the 1980s 1984
East-West economic relations: conflict and concord in Western policy choices 1983
Sitting on Bayonets? : The Soviet Defense Burden and Moscow's Economic Dilemma 1983
Guns, Butter and Tools: Tradeoffs in Soviet Resource Allocation 1982
The Burden of Soviet Defense: A Political-Economic Essay 1981
Comments on Martin L. Weitzman, "industrial production" 1981
CIA estimates of Soviet military expenditure 1980
The Significance of Divergent U.S.-USSR Military Expenditure 1979
Arms Transfers, Great Power Intervention, and Settlement of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. 1977
Prospects for agreement to limit Soviet and American military expenditure 1977
Soviet proposals for international reduction of military budgets 1977
Strategic Breakout as a Soviet Policy Option. 1977
International Limitation of Military Expenditure: Issues and Problems. 1976
Comment on John P. Hardt and George D. Holliday, East-West Financing by Export-Import Bank and National Interest Criteria. 1975
Moscow and the Middle East Settlement: A Role for Soviet Guarantees? 1975
Review of Gur Ofer, [The Service Sector in Soviet Economic Growth]. 1974
Ruble Price Levels and Dollar-Ruble Ratios of Soviet Machinery in the 1960s. 1973
The Superpowers in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1970-1973 1973
Oil and the Persian Gulf in Soviet Policy in the 1970s. 1972
Israel and the Palestinian Occupied Territories: Military-Political Issues in the Debate 1971
National Income Accounting in the USSR. 1971
Soviet Policy in the Middle East 1970
Soviet Growth, Resource Allocation, and Military Outlays. 1969
Soviet National Income 1958-1964: National Accounts of the USSR in the Seven Year Plan Period. 1969
Soviet National Income and Product, 1958-1962: Part II--National Income at Factor Cost and Constant Prices. 1966
The Future of Input-Output in Soviet Planning: Comments on a Paper by Vladimir G. Treml. 1965
Soviet military outlays since 1955 [by] Abraham S. Becker. 1964
Input-output and Soviet planning : a survey of recent developments 1963
Soviet national income and product in 1965; the goals of the seven year plan. 1963
The Structure of the East German Economy 1961
Prices of producers' durables in the United States and the USSR in 1955 1959

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