Coexistence and Commerce

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Samuel Pisar could hardly be better qualified to write the definitive study of commercial relations between East and West. As practising international lawyer he has both advised and participated in some of the most substantial transactions between free and state enterprise. This background enables him to identify the network of ideological, political, strategic and economic differences that confront progress; it also permits him to describe the delicate environment of actual negotiation and legal clarification in which differences can be dissolved. Mr Pisar offers an optimistic view of the future. Beyond the dangerous and costly thermonuclear arms race, he sees East and West meeting on the more rewarding ground of increased trade, industrial cooperation and technological exchange. To that end he has produced a deeply argued and substantial code of fair practices for the apparently hostile economic systems of communism and capitalism. The global scope of its vision is enforced... Tovább

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Samuel Pisar could hardly be better qualified to write the definitive study of commercial relations between East and West. As practising international lawyer he has both advised and participated in some of the most substantial transactions between free and state enterprise. This background enables him to identify the network of ideological, political, strategic and economic differences that confront progress; it also permits him to describe the delicate environment of actual negotiation and legal clarification in which differences can be dissolved. Mr Pisar offers an optimistic view of the future. Beyond the dangerous and costly thermonuclear arms race, he sees East and West meeting on the more rewarding ground of increased trade, industrial cooperation and technological exchange. To that end he has produced a deeply argued and substantial code of fair practices for the apparently hostile economic systems of communism and capitalism. The global scope of its vision is enforced throughout by lucid analysis, wide historical knowledge and full command of the intricacies of constructive negotiation. While hopes of world government have foundered, this book raises a more practical goal: a stable world economic order. Seldom has a book had a more profound impact on government policies, popular attitudes and business mentality. The extensive public discussion which followed its publication in the United States, West Germany and France has paved the way for a basic change in economic practices toward the Communist East. In particular, Samuel Pisar's proposals to lift the long-lived American embargo on mainland China have now become official policy. Vissza