The West and Eastern Europe: Economic Statecraft and Political Change
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The West and Eastern Europe: Economic Statecraft and Political Change
By (Author) Thomas A. Baylis
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
9th December 1993
United States
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Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
International relations
Political structure and processes
327.47
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Paperback
256
Description
An expert on East European politics and economics analyzes and evaluates Western policies toward the new East European democracies as they struggle to build stable political orders and functioning market economies. He argues that the West must give higher priority to assisting the region and reorient its strategies so as to emphasise the political and administrative dimensions of the economic reconstruction. He reviews the economic legacy of past Western policies and of Eastern Europe's previous dependency on the Soviet Union, and then examines in detail the changing East-West trade patterns, the prospect for Western investment and technology transfer, the questions of finance, debt, and foreign aid, and the dilemmas of market reform. This text is designed for courses in US foreign policy, comparative politics, international political economy, East European and Slavic Studies, comparative economics, and international trade and finance.
Author Bio
THOMAS A. BAYLIS, Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, has written extensively on both East and West European politics and economics. His most recent books include Governing by Committee: Collegial Leadership in Advanced Societies (1989) and East Germany in Comparative Perspective (1989).
