Economic and strategic issues in U.S. foreign policy /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
W. de Gruyter,
1988.
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Colección: | De Gruyter studies on North America ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. International Competitiveness
- U.S. International Competitiveness in a Changing Global Economy
- 1. What Do We Mean by Competitiveness?
- 2. Indicators of U.S. Economic Performance
- 2.1 Aggregate Trade Balances
- 2.2 Technology and Trade
- 2.3 Investments in Science and Technology
- 2.4 U.S. Shares in Global Markets
- 2.5 Wage Trends
- 2.6 Trends in Growth
- 2.7 Growth of Service Employment
- 3. Macroeconomic Roots of the U.S. Trade Deficit
- 3.1 The Role of the U.S. Deficit
- 3.2 Supply of Foreign Funds
- 3.3 Stock Adjustments and Continuing Flows3.4 Correcting the Aggregate Imbalance
- 3.5 Taxing Capital Imports
- 4. Looking Ahead
- Structural Impediments to International Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
- 1. Contours of the Domestic Market Growth Path
- 2. Sources of Crisis
- 3. Structural Impediments to Adaptation
- 3.1 Keynesian Demand Management
- 3.2 Savings Habits
- 3.3 Education
- 3.4 Anti-Trust Laws
- 3.5 Financial System
- 3.6 Economic Regulation
- 3.7 Job-Control Unionism
- 3.8 Supplier-Assembler Relations
- 4. Fragility of the Efforts for Change4.1 Demise of Job-Control Unionism
- 4.2 Intra-Industry Cooperation
- 4.3 Southern Trends
- 5. Conclusion
- Japan-U.S. Relations: The 1980s and Beyond
- 1. 1981�1987: Creating a Crisis
- 2. Looking Ahead: Three Perspectives on U.S.-Japan Relations
- Part II. The Shaping of Foreign Trade Policy
- The “Interaction Mechanism� Between Congress and the President in Making U.S. Foreign Trade Policy
- 1. The Development of the “Interaction Mechanism�
- 1.1 The Legacy of Smoot-Hawley: A Warning for Decades to Come
- 1.2 Bilateralism and Reciprocity: 1934�19451.3 The Hegemonic Period: 1945�1962
- 1.4 The Kennedy Round: 1962�1967
- 1.5 The “Interaction Mechanism� at the End of the Kennedy Round
- 2. Interlude: Changes in the 1970s
- 3. The “Interaction Mechanism� in the 1970s
- 3.1 The Trade Act of 1974
- 3.2 The Trade Act of 1979
- 4. The Reagan Administration
- 4.1 The Trade Act of 1984
- 4.2 Reciprocity Bills
- 4.3 Outlook: The Trade Act of 1988
- Neoconservatism and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Case of Foreign Trade
- 1. American Foreign Policy and the Rise of Neoconservatism1.1 Patterns of U.S. Foreign Policy
- 1.2 The Coming of the Neoconservative Foreign Policy Agenda
- 2. Interest and Ideology: Neoconservative Foreign Trade Positions
- 2.1 General Outlook
- 2.2 East-West Trade
- 2.3 Trade with Western Nations
- 3. Conclusions
- Part III. U.S.-Canadian Relations
- Canadian Defence Policy and Economic Relations with the United States, 1939�1988: An Overview
- 1. Historical Background, 1945�1984
- 1.1 Military and Economic Cooperation, 1939�1950