This book presents various aspects of the changing nature of East-West relations and attempts to anticipate future trends in East-West trade and technology transfer, dealing with the evolution of national approaches towards trade and technology transfer.

Preface -- Introduction: Eastern Europe in Transition -- Contending Approaches to Export Controls -- U.S. COCOM Policy: From Paranoia to Perestroika? -- The West European Approach Towards COCOM -- COCOM: The Japanese Perspective -- Export Controls Outside COCOM -- The Political Economy of East-West Trade and Technology Transfer -- Security, Economics, and East-West Trade in the Gorbachev Era -- Market Considerations and East-West Economic Relations -- The European Community and COCOM: The Exclusion of an Interested Party -- Business as Usual in the 1990s? The Implications for Industry -- East-West Trade and Technology Transfer in a New Security Context -- East-West Trade and Technology Transfer Reconsidered -- Gorbachev's New Thinking and Western Security -- Managing Strains within COCOM and NATO -- Conclusion: Post-Revolutionary Thoughts