Economic Containment: CoCom and the Politics of East-West Trade. (book reviews)

In the post-Cold War world, both U.S. and multilateral export control policy has come into increasing disarray. The revelations that the U.S. approved the sale of embargoed items to Iraq before the Gulf War and then subsequently covered up the sales is only the most recent example. In this excellent book Michael Mastanduno probes the sources of these and other problems plaguing Western efforts to control the diffusion of goods and technology to potential adversaries.

He analyzes the roots of export control cooperation and conflict in U.S. Cold War trade policy and alliance politics. In ...

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