During the period of relative flexibility or 'detente' prior to the invasion of Czechoslovakia, a renais sance of inter-state relations took place across the alliance lines in Europe. The present article ana lyses East-West interactions among the smaller European states in the 1960s by...

Privatization is never a simple matter of transferring public assets to the private sector, because elected politicians cannot afford to be market dependent. Rather than allowing free entry or free exit from the marketplace, governments offer incentives and impose restrictions in order to meet...