Britain, the US and China's anti-Soviet stance in the Cold War : containment and trade, 1977-1980

Author/Creator:

Pierri, Bruno, 1971- author

Publication/Creation:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024

Format:

Book

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Full Title:

Britain, the US and China's anti-Soviet stance in the Cold War : containment and trade, 1977-1980 / Bruno Pierri

Series Titles:

Cold War history
Cold War history series (London, England)

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Electronic books

Subjects:

Cold War
International trade
World politics--20th century
Great Britain--Commerce--Soviet Union
United States--Commerce--Soviet Union
China--Commerce--Soviet Union

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

The Nixon legacy -- The road to the third plenum -- The policy of adjustment -- Afghanistan and arms sales.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the late 1970s. Trade and containment may summarise the new relation that communist China moulded with the capitalistic West in the late 1970s. Ideology had become less important and a rapprochement between the PRC (People's Republic of China) and the Western Powers over trade, with the purpose of isolating and weakening the common Russian rival, was practically unavoidable. Within a relatively short span of time the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific area had been reversed. Simply put, Beijing's market was too big to be ignored and the Atlantic allies collaborated, sometimes even competing with each other, to allow China access to the centres of world finance. However, the Western powers had not realised that Beijing would never pursue alignment with them. On the contrary, the increased trading and financial linkage with capitalistic countries gave China room to manoeuvre, enabling it to play the Western states off against each other. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War Studies, Chinese history, foreign policy and International Relations"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource

Local Note:

Available to current Emory students, faculty and staff.

Biographical/Historical Note:

Bruno Pierri is an adjunct professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna and has a PhD in History of extra-European countries from the University of Pisa, Italy.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937791534002486

ISBN:

9781003390138
1003390137
9781000922929
1000922928
9781000922998
1000922995

Other Identifiers:

doi: 10.4324/9781003390138