Abstract
Braathu, J. Unilateralism and Alliance Cohesion: The United States, Western Europe, and the Regulation of Energy-related Trade with the Soviet Union. Cooperation and Conflict, XVIII, 1983, 21-41.
The point of departure for this paper is the nature of Alliance cohesion and the means of achieving this over an extended period of time. A historical overview of East-West energy transactions involving both the Western export of oil and natural gas equipment and technologies as well as the import of oil and gas seeks to trace the evolution of American trade control policies and their effect upon the West European energy relationship with the Soviet Union. But the effects of these trends of policy are also sought related to the evolution of intra-Alliance relationships in general. The major underlying force is the strain between the unilateralism of sanctions-policy concep tualization and the prerequisite of multilateral implementation.
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