Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1973 (1. évfolyam)
1973 / Próbaszám - A tanulmányok orosz és angol nyelvű tartalmi kivonata
tant for the people of Europe to achive political stability. The article shows how the processes of European integration have developed and examines the differences between the CMEA and the Common Market. It raises the question whether their development impedes the efforts aimed expanding East-West relations. The writer stresses that whereas the policy of the CMEA countries tries to make their cooperation not lead them into isolation from other parts of the world, the attitude of the Common Market towards non-affiliated countries is not unambiguous and the present seems to carry within itself the danger of slowing down all-European cooperation in the future. Finally, the writer examines what factors determine the influence made by the processes of integration on the economic cooperation of European countries. Among these he stresses the political will to help the development of cooperation as well as the bilateral relations between capitalist and socialist countries. He points out that the possibility exists for the development of a general all- European system of economic cooperation, naturally taking into consideration its organic integration into the dynamically developing system of the world economy as a whole. Mihály Simái: On the International Economic Policy of the United States at the Beginning of the Seventies The shift which has taken place in the international balance of forces has produced diverse effects on the foreign policy and international economic policy of the United States. The pattern of relations between America’s international economic policy and its foreign policy is extremely complicated. Obviously the interests of the big companies seeking further expansion abroad have always had a more or less direct influence on US foreign policy and international economic policy. At the present time, howerer, as the most powerful American monopolies extend their activities to the whole capitalist world economy, this influence is much more complex. The structure of the capitalist world economy built up after the Second World War changed at the beginning of the 70’s. The change in world economy relations could be best seen in the grave and lasting crisis of the international monetary system. It is the relative decline of the United States’ international positions which serves as the background to this. The United States still plays a very considerable role in world trade and especially in the international flow of capital. But its lead compared to its main rivals is not so big and dramatic as it was two decades ago. It has become essential for the United States to increase the competitivity of its economy, to speed up technical development and to increase the quanti- ti of exportable know-how. Winning new markets for its export goods is also important and there is a close connection here with its growing interest in developing economic relations with the socialist countries. The formation of new international economic institutions as a result of the shift in the balance of forces and the making of agreements which provide their bas:s are especially worring the United States. Conflicts arising out of this will have an effect an the relations between the leading states in the capitalist world economy for many yeans to come. László Salgó France’s China Policy between 1949 and 1973 In the relations of France and China three main phases can be distinguished between the victory of the Chinese revolution and President Georges Pompiduo’s visit to Peking in September, 1973. In the first period, wich lasted from the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China (1949) to the conference of Evian which ended the Algerian war (1962), both the 4th Republic and the government of the Gaullist 5th Republic attributed major-responsibility for the falling apart of their colonial empire to People’s China besides the Soviet Union. „In the Indochinese war” said Couve de Murville, „France was virtually at war also with Peking.” In the last period of the Algerian war, when there were no prospects for a French victory, President V
