Power, Protection, and Free Trade : International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887 1939

David A. Lake

ISBN 10: 0801421349 / ISBN 13: 9780801421341

Published by Cornell University Press Apr 1988, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Power, Protection, and Free Trade : International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887 1939
• Publisher: Cornell University Press Apr 1988
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801421349
• ISBN 13: 9780801421341
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 25D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 907 grams

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Synopsis

Why do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not adequately explain American trade strategy or address the contradictory elements of cooperation and conflict that shape the international economy. Power, Protection, and Free Trade offers an alternative, systemic approach to trade strategy that builds on the interaction between domestic and international factors. In this innovative book, Lake maintains that both protection and free trade are legitimate and effective instruments of national policy, the considered responses of nations to varying international structures.

About the Author

David A. Lake is Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Statebuilder’s Dilemma: On the Limits of Foreign Intervention, and Hierarchy in International Relations and the coeditor of Politics in the New Hard Times: The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective and The State and American Foreign Economic Policy, all from Cornell University Press.