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Russia and the Use of Trade Policy: Concentration with Soviet Successor States

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  • Carol Lutz

    (Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY, USA2Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA)

  • James Lutz

    (Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USA)

Abstract

Economic policy has often been an integral part of foreign policy usage by governments. Many states will use trade, aid, and investment as instruments to attain other objectives deemed to be in the national interest. Albert Hirschman in an early and classic study suggested that governments in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany consciously attempted to dominate the trade of weaker states in Europe as a means of enhancing the German foreign policy position. Russian trade policy since the breakup of the Soviet Union has followed a similar policy, especially in regard to the other successor states of the former Soviet Union. Patterns were different for the Baltic countries, other European successor states, the Transcaucasian states, and Central Asian countries. Notwithstanding differences that were present, there was evidence in the trade patterns to indicate that Moscow was using trade policy to gain influence in the successor states.

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  • Carol Lutz & James Lutz, 2017. "Russia and the Use of Trade Policy: Concentration with Soviet Successor States," Global Economy Journal (GEJ), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 17(4), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:gejxxx:v:17:y:2017:i:04:n:gej-2017-0068
    DOI: 10.1142/GEJ-2017-0068
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