USSR-Japan energy cooperation in Siberia. Implications for US-Japan relations
This paper examines how a seemingly straight-forward bilateral Japanese energy cooperation project can become a contentious problem when multilateral foreign policy issues come to the fore. The focus is on how joint Soviet-Japanese oil and gas exploration in Eastern Siberia became a source of bitter US-Japan disagreement when President Reagan sought to impose trade and technology sanctions against the Soviet Union to block or delay the completion of the Siberian gas pipeline deal with Europe. This is only one of several examples of how sudden changes in US foreign policy have served to dampen Tokyo's enthusiasm for close energy cooperation with Washington. Prospects for future Japan-US energy cooperation, I would maintain, will be better understood by examining them within a broader economic foreign policy context.
- Research Organization:
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG01-82PE70399
- OSTI ID:
- 6166859
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/PE/70399-T1; ON: DE83012420
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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