Review: Technology Transfer and East-West Relations
| Author | Zbigniew M. Fallenbuchl |
| Date | 01 September 1988 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070208804300314 |
| Published date | 01 September 1988 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
gary.
He
was
so
persistent
that
he eventually received
instructions
from Ottawa
not
to
'take
any
further
initiatives
...
except
on
express
instructions'
(p
142).
The
high
commissioner
also
had
differences
of
opinion
with
his
own
government
over
priorities.
Ottawa's
concern
was
to
prevent
a
break-up
of
the
Commonwealth,
and
it
perceived
a
real
danger
that
the
Asian
members
would
leave.
Thus,
its
priorities
were
with
Suez
and
with
creating
the
first
United
Nations
peacekeeping force,
both
of
which
required
Nehru's
support.
Hungary
had
second
place.
In
Reid's
view,
Canada,
too,
applied
a
double
standard,
exactly
opposite
to
that
of Nehru. It
condemned
the
Soviet
aggression
immediately
and
publicly,
but,
at
the
United
Nations,
it
abstained
from
voting
on
the
first
Suez
resolution
which
called
only
for
a
ceasefire
(p
133).
Reid's
account
of
the
inner
workings
of
diplomacy
at
a
time
of
crisis
is
well
done.
His
second
theme
is
what he
calls
'the
might-have-
beens
of
the
period'
(p
14).
These
two
crises,
occurring
simultaneously,
are
perhaps
peculiarly
susceptible
to
'if
onlys'.
However,
to
this
re-
viewer,
such
second-guessing,
however
fascinating,
is
unsatisfactory.
Robert
W.
Reford/Reford-McCandless
International,
Toronto
TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER
AND
EAST-WEST
RELATIONS
Edited
by
Mark
E.
Schaffer
Beckenham,
Kent:
Croom
Helm,
1985,
viii,
273pp,
£22.50
This
is
an
interesting
and
useful
collection
of
papers
on
economic,
political,
legal,
and
strategic
aspects
of
technology
transfer
in
East-
West
economic relations
which were
originally
presented
at
a
1983
conference sponsored
by
Millennium:
Journal
of
International
Studies.
Mark
Schaffer's
introduction
serves
as a
unifying
link,
presenting
definitions
of
the
concepts
used
by
the
authors,
summarizing
the
main
issues,
providing
a
brief
historical sketch
of
the
postwar
transfer
of
Western
technology
to
the
Soviet
Union
and
Eastern
Europe,
and
outlining
the
organization
of
the
volume.
There
are
five
economic
papers.
Stanislaw
Gomulka
(London
School
of
Economics) suggests
an
explanation
of
the
recent
slowdown
in
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