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The Politics of International Economic Relations

ISBN: 9780312084769 | 0312084765
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 8/15/1996

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SummaryTable of Contents
THE POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS gives students the historical and political background needed to understand the world economy.
Prefacexi(2)
About the Authorsxiii
Part One An Overview1(7)
1 The Management of International Economic Relations since World War II
1(7... MORE
Part Two The Western System8(141)
2 International Money Management
8(41)
The Original Bretton Woods Agreement
10(2)
Unilateral U.S. Management
12(1)
Multilateral Management under U.S. Leadership
13(3)
Breakdown of Bretton Woods
16(8)
Management Dilemmas in the Post-Bretton Woods Era
24(6)
Europe's Efforts to Build a Regional Monetary System
30(5)
U.S. Policy: Alternating between Unilateralism and Collective Management
35(9)
Monetary Management in the 1990s
44(5)
3 International Trade and Domestic Politics
49(47)
The Havana Charter
50(2)
Multilateral Management under U.S. Leadership
52(5)
Structural Change and Protectionism
57(5)
Pluralism
62(9)
The New Protectionism
71(3)
New Issues
74(4)
The New Regionalism
78(2)
The Tokyo Round
80(2)
The Uruguay Round
82(4)
The Uruguay Round Agreement
86(1)
Conclusion
87(9)
4 The Multinational Corporation and the Issue of Management
96(53)
Common Characteristics of MNCs
98(5)
Trends in FDI and Other MNC Activities
103(5)
Explaining the Rapid Growth in MNC Activity
108(1)
Internalization Theory
109(1)
Product Cycle Theory
110(1)
Obsolescing Bargain Theory
111(1)
Oligopoly Theory
111(1)
The Tariff-Jumping Hypothesis
112(1)
The Importance of the Home Country
112(1)
The Consequences of MNC Activity
113(2)
MNCs in Canada and Europe
115(3)
National Economic Control
118(3)
Interference by Home Governments of Multinationals
121(3)
Multinationals and the National Political Process
124(2)
International Regimes for Foreign Direct Investment
126(1)
National Management
127(7)
Regional Management
134(3)
International Management
137(12)
Part Three The North-South System149(167)
5 The North-South System and the Possibility of Change
149(18)
Liberal Theories of Economic Development
152(1)
Marxist and Neo-Marxist Theories of Development
153(1)
The Structuralists
154(1)
Contrasting Marxist and Structuralist Perspectives
155(1)
Weaknesses in the Three Perspectives
156(5)
Development Strategies
161(6)
6 International Financial Flows
167(48)
Foreign Aid and the Postwar Order
167(1)
The Link between Aid and Foreign Policy
168(2)
Stagnation of Aid
170(2)
Financial Flows in the 1970s: Politicization and Privatization
172(7)
The Aid and Debt Crises of the 1980s
179(3)
The Impact of Aid
182(4)
The Onset of the Debt Crisis
186(3)
Debt Crisis Management
189(9)
Debt Fatigue
198(5)
From Debt Crisis to Emerging Markets
203(3)
The Impact of the Debt Crisis on Third World Strategy
206(1)
The Future of Aid and Financial Flows
207(8)
7 Trade and Development Strategies
215(34)
Isolation from the Postwar Trading Order
215(2)
From Import Substitution to Trade Expansion
217(4)
Unity and Confrontation
221(4)
Commodity Power and the New International Economic Order
225(5)
The New Order for the 1980s
230(4)
The New Pragmatism
234(6)
Beyond the Uruguay Round
240(9)
8 Multinational Corporations in the Third World
249(27)
Power: The Local Economy
249(3)
Power: Local Government
252(2)
Efficiency, Growth, and Welfare
254(4)
National Political Process
258(2)
Management of Foreign Investment by Less-Developed Countries
260(5)
The 1980s: The New Pragmatism
265(5)
The Future: Cooperation or Conflict?
270(6)
9 Oil, Commodity Cartels, and Power
276(40)
The Dependency System of International Oil
276(4)
The Process of Change: From Negotiation to Unilateral Power
280(3)
OPEC Management
283(3)
The Second Oil Crisis: A System Out of Control
286(3)
OPEC in Decline: The World Oil Glut
289(6)
Oil Price Wars
295(3)
The Gulf War
298(2)
The Future of OPEC
300(1)
Other OPECs?
301(5)
Bauxite, Bananas, and Copper
306(10)
Part Four The End of the Cold War and Its Consequences for the World Economy316(55)
10 East-West Economic Relations during and after the Cold War
316(49)
East-West Economic Relations in the Early Cold War Period
317(1)
The Creation of an Eastern Economic Bloc
318(4)
Forces of Change in the East
322(7)
East-West Economic Relations: From the 1960s to the End of the Cold War
329(4)
Gorbachev's Economic and Political Reforms
333(3)
The Failure of Perestroika
336(1)
Problems of Transition from Communism
337(1)
Yeltsin: Crisis and Reform
338(4)
Russian Foreign Economic Policies and the West's Response
342(1)
Economic Reform in Eastern Europe
343(3)
China
346(11)
East-West Economic Relations since the End of the Cold War
357(8)
Conclusion: Globalization and the New World Order
365(6)
A New World Order?
366(3)
A New World Order, or a Reformed World Order?
369(2)
Glossary371(17)
Acronyms388(3)
Selected Bibliography391(40)
Index431

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