Journal article
East European military expenditures in the 1970s: collective good or bargaining offer?
International organization, Vol.37(1), pp.143-155
1983
DOI: 10.1017/S0020818300004239
Abstract
In late November 1978, Nicolae Ceausescu, general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, returned to Bucharest from a Moscow meeting of the Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO). In a series of speeches from 25 November through 1 December, he began to denounce efforts by the Soviet Union to integrate more fully the armies of the WTO members and to get the East European members to increase their defense expenditures. Ceausescu was making a dramatic (and apparently successful) appeal for domestic support for his resistance to Soviet pressure. Other WTO member-states, although less publicly, have also resisted this Soviet pressure. Romania is not the only East European state ignoring Soviet calls for higher defense spending. Poland, for example, has also shown a significant decline during the 1970s in the amount of its gross national product (GNP) spent on defense (D/GNP). East Germany, on the other hand, increased its expenditures dramatically over the same decade.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- East European military expenditures in the 1970s: collective good or bargaining offer?
- Creators
- William M Reisinger
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- International organization, Vol.37(1), pp.143-155
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York, USA
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0020818300004239
- ISSN
- 0020-8183
- eISSN
- 1531-5088
- Number of pages
- 13
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1983
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983989294202771
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