America's trade follies : turning economic leadership into strategic weakness / Bernard K. Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Bernard K., 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade blocs.

Regionalism.

Balance of trade--United States.

Balance of trade.

United States--Commercial policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, U.K. : Routledge, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

America's Trade Follies controversially argues that the global political economy is hardening into regional blocs, in North America, Latin America, Europe and the Asia Pacific, organized around a powerful economic base and suspicious of each other. Bernard K. Gordon's masterful analysis shows that this division threatens American prosperity by limiting US access to the world's richest and largest markets, and endangers US security by dividing the globe along economic and political lines. Provocative, original and stimulating this book is essential reading for all those interested in A

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and acronyms; America's folly: The rise of regional blocs; America's trade in its global context; The revival of regionalism; The role of foreign trade in America; The myth of America's trade weakness; The trade deficit; Lessons from America's trade with Japan; Regionalism in Europe: A model for the past or the future?; Politics and Europe's regionalism; Europe as model or a fortress?; Why the EC is no model; TAFTA and its ~marketplace~: last stand of the Atlanticists?

Europe's American factor and the role of proximityTwo concepts in conflict; The Western hemisphere: America's blurred vision; US trade and ~Pan Americanism~; The Mexican distortion; America's trade with South America; Brief interlude: the myth of American dominance; The meaning of Europe's investment return to Latin America; American foreign policy and the FTAA; Will the geese fly?; Japan changes course; The Asian monetary fund and Asia's reaction; A yen bloc?; Japan and the EAEC: an idea whose time has come?; The stakes are not small; The high price of folly

The downsides of political regionalismThe values of multilateralism; Avoid the self-fulfilling prophecy; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-57172-0

1-134-57173-9

1-280-32628-X

0-203-18320-7

9780203183205

OCLC:

264508188