Issues and agents in international political economy / edited by Benjamin J. Cohen and Charles Lipson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Benjamin J.

Lipson, Charles.

Series:

International organization readers

International organization reader

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International trade.

International business enterprises.

International finance.

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

xiii unnumbered pages, 377 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

International political economy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]

Summary:

This is the second of two anthologies on international political economy drawn from articles published in the journal International Organization. The book is organized into four sections: Trade, Multinational Firms and Globalization, Money and Finance, and Emerging Issues.

Contents:

Abstracts ix

I. Trade 5

Cooperation in the Liberalization of International Trade: After Hegemony, What? (1987) / Beth V. Yarbrough, Robert M. Yarbrough 9

Policy Rivalry Among Industrial States: What Can We Learn from Models of Strategic Trade Policy? (1989) / Klaus Stegemann 35

International Law and Domestic Institutions: Reconciling North American "Unfair" Trade Laws (1996) / Judith Goldstein 63

II. Multinational Firms and Globalization 87

Testing the Bargaining Hypothesis in the Manufacturing Sector in Developing Countries (1987) / Stephen J. Kobrin 91

Between Free Trade and Protectionism: Strategic Trade Policy and a Theory of Corporate Trade Demands (1989) / Helen V. Milner, David B. Yoffie 121

National Structures and Multinational Corporate Behavior: Enduring Differences in the Age of Globalization (1997) / Louis W. Pauly, Simon Reich 155

III. Money and Finance 185

Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance (1991) / Jeffry A. Frieden 189

International Economics Structures, Government Interests, and International Coordination of Macroeconomic Adjustment Policies (1991) / Michael C. Webb 217

The Political Economy of Financial Internationalization in the Developing World (1996) / Stephan Haggard, Sylvia Maxfield 251

IV. Emerging Issues 285

Trade Gaps, Analytical Gaps: Regime Analysis and International Commodity Trade Regulation (1987) / Mark W. Zacher 289

The Politics of International Regime Formation: Managing Natural Resources and the Environment (1989) / Oran R. Young 319

What Happened to Fortress Europe?: External Trade Policy Liberalization in the European Union (1998) / Brian T. Hanson 347.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0262032678

0262531607

OCLC:

40444011