Economic interdependence and political conflict : manipulation of economic interdependence and dependent policy as national security strategy

This article surveys the theory of the relationship between economic interdependence and political conflict. Does economic interdependence increase or decrease the probability of war among states? Many authors examine the question of whether economic interdependence constrains or motivates interstate conflict. While liberals affirm economic interdependence produces common interests among nations and fosters cooperative political relations, realists assert that rather than fostering cooperation, increased interdependence generates political discord. For a long time, the links between interdependence and conflict have been the subject of the International Political Economy. How and to what extent does interdependence influence political conflict? What causes this relationship? The purpose of this paper is to explore manipulating asymmetrical interdependence and dependent policy as a national security strategy, and to demonstrate that the dependent policy in East-West trade functioned as a buffer between the EC and the Soviet bloc and it became another security strategy during the Cold War.departmental bulletin pape