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

Lake, David A.

ISBN 10: 0801497531 / ISBN 13: 9780801497537

Published by Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., 1990, First Softcover Edition, Cornell Paperbacks, Cornell University Press, 1990

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Very Good+ Softcover; xi (11) + 242 pages including figures, tables, notes, and index; previous owner's name inside rear cover; securely bound, nice tight copy; from the Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series; a scholarly work.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939
• Publisher: Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., 1990, First Softcover Edition, Cornell Paperbacks, Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801497531
• ISBN 13: 9780801497537
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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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.