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Any consideration of Western policies on East-West trade must take into account what we know of the likely responses to such policies—responses, that is, to the various alternative policies that the Western Alliance might pursue. The purpose of this chapter is to review what can be said on this score from past experience. So far as Soviet responses to Western policies directed at Moscow and her allies are concerned, there is no shortage of experience to review. Drawing conclusions for future policy from that experience, however, is not easy.
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Hanson, P. (1990). Soviet Responses to Western Trade Policies. In: Baldwin, D.A., Milner, H.V. (eds) East-West Trade and the Atlantic Alliance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21049-7_3
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