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The reduction of grain shipments and the export ban for computers imposed by the US Administration in response to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan was supplemented, late in February 1980, by prohibition of deliveries of phosphates to the Soviet Union. President Carter has not yet urged the western industrialized states to participate in economic sanctions against the USSR, but a comprehensive embargo is still under discussion. In this connection it is not only the expediency of an embargo against the Soviet Union which is at issue, but the question how the East-West trade is to be conducted and what is, in the long run, to be regarded as normal in this field.
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Cf., for details, Rolf Hasse: Theorie und Politik des Embargos (Embargo theory and policy), Untersuchungen des Instituts für Wirtschaftspolitik an der Universität zu Köln, Vol. 25, Cologne 1973 (Expert study on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs).
Cf. Rolf Hasse: Wirtschaftliche Sanktionen als Mittel der Außenpolitik Das Rhodesien-Embargo (Economic sanctions as a means of foreign policy. The Rhodesia embargo), Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften, No. 263, Berlin 1977 (Expert study on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs).
Cf. Reinhold Biskup: Sowjetpolitik und Entwicklungsländer ideologie und Strategie in der sowjetischen Politik gegenüber Entwicklungsländern (Soviet policy and developing countries ideology and strategy in the Soviet policy towares developing countries), Freiburg-Berne 1970, espec, pp. 55–66. Of special interest are the remarks on Soviet policy towards Afghanistan, pp. 21–31.
Cf. Rolt Hasse: Theorie und Politik des Embargos. op cit., (Embargo theory and policy), Untersuchungen des Institus für Wirtschaftspolitik an der Universität zu Köln, Vol. 25, Cologne 1973 pp. 402–411.
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Hasse, R. What is “Normal” East-West trade?. Intereconomics 15, 72–75 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928581
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