After the Cold War : Russian-American defense conversion for economic renewal / edited by Michael P. Claudon and Kathryn Wittneben.

Papers presented at a Geonomics seminar, October 15-18, 1992.

Introduction: The Bread Loaf Charter: An Action Plan for American-Russian Partnership in Defense Conversion / Michael P. Claudon. Seminar Papers. Text of Bread Loaf Charter -- I. Defense Conversion: An Overview / Kathryn Wittneben. 1. Achieving U.S.-Russian Business Cooperation for an Orderly Build-down and Economic Renewal / John P. Hardt. 2. Prospects for Russian-American Cooperation in Defense Conversion / Aleksei K. Ponomarev. 3. Russian Foreign Economic Policy and Defense Conversion / Sergei Y. Glaziev. 4. Economic Reform Strategies and the Problems of Conversion / Ivan S. Materov -- II. The View from the Ministries. 5. Defense Conversion: Problems and Solutions / Andrei O. Gorbachev. 6. Western Involvement in Defense Conversion / Sergei G. Chevardov. 7. Technology Transfer and Conversion / Boris D. Yurlov. 8. High-Technology Exports and Economic Restructuring / Eugenii A. Rogovskii. 9. A Regional Approach to Conversion / Valerian M. Sobolev.

10. Defense Conversion in Russia: The Need for Multilateral Support / Sergei V. Kortunov -- III. The View from the Enterprises. 11. The Managers' Perspective: Star Wars to High-Tech Consumer Goods / Vasilii P. Bakhar and Valerii V. Filoppov. 12. Officer Retraining and Conversion / Sergei I. Kovalev and Aleksandr F. Kononenko -- IV. The View from American Business. 13. Perspectives and the Role of U.S. Business in Russian Defense Conversion / Kathryn Wittneben. 14. Defense Conversion in Russia: A U.S. Business Perspective / Jeffrey Moore -- App. 1. Text: Joint Russian-U.S. Declaration on Defense Conversion June 17, 1992 Summit -- App. 2. Text: Law, On Conversion of the Defense Industry in the Russian Federation, March 1992 -- App. 3. Text: Supreme Soviet Resolution, Law on Conversion.

In December 1988, President Gorbachev announced at the United Nations that the Soviet Union would unilaterally cut 500,000 troops from its military forces and begin conversion of its military-industrial complex, which dominates its economy. Since that formal declaration four years ago, the breakup of the East Bloc and the Soviet Union has dramatically changed and improved East-West relations. But the initial optimism at the "end" of the Cold War has now been replaced with the realization that building new economic, political, and military relationships will test the good will, patience, and creativity of both sides.