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Trading Blocs: States, Firms, and Regions in the World Economy
Kerry A. Chase
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Global commerce is rapidly organizing around regional trading blocs in North America, Western Europe, Pacific Asia, and elsewhere--with potentially dangerous consequences for the world trading system. Professor Kerry Chase examines how domestic politics has driven the emergence of these trading blocs, arguing that businesses today are more favorably inclined to global trade liberalization than in the past because recent regional trading arrangements have created opportunities to restructure manufacturing more efficiently.
Trading Blocs is the first book to systematically demonstrate the theoretical significance of economies of scale in domestic pressure for trading blocs, and thereby build on a growing research agenda in areas of political economy and domestic politics.
"Chase has written a superb book that provides us with an innovative and compelling explanation for the development of trading blocs."
--Vinod Aggarwal, Director, Berkeley APEC Study Center, University of California, Berkeley
Kerry A. Chase is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.
Trading Blocs is the first book to systematically demonstrate the theoretical significance of economies of scale in domestic pressure for trading blocs, and thereby build on a growing research agenda in areas of political economy and domestic politics.
"Chase has written a superb book that provides us with an innovative and compelling explanation for the development of trading blocs."
--Vinod Aggarwal, Director, Berkeley APEC Study Center, University of California, Berkeley
Kerry A. Chase is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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List of Tables
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List of Figures
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Acronyms
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction: A World of Trading Blocs
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CHAPTER 2 The Argument: Domestic Groups and Regional Arrangements
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CHAPTER 3 Interwar Trading Blocs: Japan, Britain, and Germany, 1919 39
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CHAPTER 4 The United States and Multilateral Trade Liberalization, 1922 67
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CHAPTER 5 The EU: Fortress or Beachhead?
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CHAPTER 6 NAFTA: The Politics in the United States
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CHAPTER 7 Reluctant Regionalism: Japan and Asia
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CHAPTER 8 Multinationals and the New Regionalism
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Appendix
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References
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Index
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Published: 2005
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-06906-4 (paper)
- 978-0-472-02289-2 (ebook)