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New Trends in Soviet Economic Relations with the Third World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier
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The trend toward economic rationality in the USSR has not beenconfined to domestic issues alone. It is also manifest in the search for more advantageous and efficient procedures in foreign economic relations, specifically aid and trade with the third world. In this search for ways to secure tangible gains, Soviet relations with the developing countries are entering a new phase, in which economic considerations of profit are challenging the hitherto dominant political motivations.

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World Politics , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , April 1970 , pp. 415 - 432
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1970

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