The Making of United States International Economic Policy: Principles, Problems, and Proposals for Reform - Softcover

Cohen, Stephen D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0275944565 ISBN 13: 9780275944568

Publisher: Praeger Pub Text, 1994

Synopsis

As the realities of global economic interactions become more significant, the growing importance of international economic policy to the performance of the domestic economy, as well as to foreign policy, becomes better understood. The increasing appreciation of the importance of international economic relations is the reason for this new edition. This work is the definitive study of the step-by-step process of how U.S. international economic policy is formulated and how the decision-making process functions. This fourth edition has been updated to explain policymaking associated with, among other issues: the North American Free Trade Agreement, environment and trade issues, renewing China's most favored nation tarriff status, economic assistance to Russia, the industrial policy/international competitiveness debate, the Trade Act of 1988, and U.S. government loans to Saddam Hussein just prior to the invasion of Kuwait. Economists, business people, policy-makers, politicians, political scientists, and students will find this volume timely and informative.

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About the Author

STEPHEN D. COHEN is Professor of International Relations at The American University's School of International Service in Washington, D.C., specializing in international trade and financial policies. Prior to joining the faculty in 1975, he served as a staff member for the White House-Congressional Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy. Previously, he had been an international economist at the U.S. Treasury Department and served as the Chief Economist of the U.S.-Japan Trade Council from 1969 to 1973. He was a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics for the 1981-1982 academic year. Among Dr. Cohen's books are International Monetary Reform 1964-1969, The Political Dimension, Uneasy Partnership: Competition and Conflict in U.S.-Japanese Relations and Cowboys and Samurai: Why the United States Is Losing the Battle with the Japanese, and Why it Matters.

Review

"The most comprehensive current analysis of the broad sweep of foreign economic policymaking in Washington. Steve Cohen has updated his analysis with a full description of the new, anti-liberalization forces that produced the dramatic December confrontation at the WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle."-I.M. Destler Professor, School of Public Affairs University of Maryland

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0275944565
• ISBN 13: 9780275944568
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 344