Table of Contents

Overview: Pipe Dreams and Nightmares Part I: The Deal of the Century Genesis of the Pipeline The Contracts Strategic Issues Part II: An Alliance Divided Seeds of Discord: Western Trade Policies Since 1945 The Pipeline Embargo A Legal Mess The Aftermath The Great Debate Conclusions: A Crisis in Context Bibliography Index

About the Author

ANTONY J. BLINKEN, who attends Columbia University Law School, was a reporter with The New Republic.

Reviews

Ally Versus Ally is a richly researched and revealing account of how disagreement can turn into acrimony and then into crisis. Antony Blinken explains that the U.S. embargo of high technology agianst the Soviet bloc actually worked against American interests by hindering American competition, costing thousands of American jobs, and losing billions of dollars in trade, without really improving America's national security. The U.S. embargo turned out to be more of a sanction against ourselves and our European allies than the Soviet Union. Ally Versus Ally
*Donald M. Kendall, Chairman, Pepsico*