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On economic grounds alone, the options of reducing technology flows to the USSR or of seeking foreign-policy leverage from them cannot be ruled out in Western policy-making. The crucial questions are: first, are Western nations capable of acting with sufficient unity to exercise these options? Second, would the political consequences be desirable?
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National Research Council, Trade, Technology and the US Economy (Washington: National Academy of Science, 1978), pp. 113–14.
Lord Brimelow, ‘Cross Currents in the Quest for Détente,’ NATO Review, vol. 25 no. 2 (April 1977), pp. 3–10, at p. 7.
F.J. Fleron (ed.), Technology and Communist Culture (New York: Praeger, 1977). The views of the various contributors (on China and Eastern Europe, as well as the USSR) are by no means unanimous, but it would be fair to say that the adaptability of technologies to a range of political cultures and economic systems is a notion that most of the contributors find acceptable. See, especially, the perceptive paper by E. P. Hoffman, `Technology, Values and Political Power in the Soviet Union: Do Computers Matter?’ (pp. 397–437).
A. Yanov, Détente after Brezhnev. The Domestic Roots of Soviet Foreign Policy (Berkeley, Calfornia: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1978).
C.H. McMillan, ‘Some Thoughts on the Relationship between Regional Integration in Eastern Europe and East—West Economic Relations’ in F. Levcik (ed.), International Economics: Comparisons and interdependencies (Vienna: Springer, 1978), pp. 183–99.
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Hanson, P. (1981). The Primacy of Politics. In: Trade and Technology in Soviet-Western Relations. Studies in Soviet History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05163-2_15
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