Protection for Exporters: Power and Discrimination in Transatlantic Trade Relations, 1930–2010 - Couverture rigide

Dür, Andreas

 
9780801448232: Protection for Exporters: Power and Discrimination in Transatlantic Trade Relations, 1930–2010
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0801448239 ISBN 13 : 9780801448232
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The liberalization of transatlantic trade relations since the Great Depression is one of the key developments in the global political economy of the last hundred years. This period has seen the negotiated reduction of both tariffs and nontariff barriers among developed countries, which allowed for the rapid expansion of trade flows, a driving force of economic globalization. In Protection for Exporters, Andreas Dür provides a novel explanation for this phenomenon that stresses the role of societal interests in shaping trade politics. He argues that exporters lobby more in reaction to losses of foreign market access than in pursuit of opportunities, thus providing a rationale for periods of acceleration and slowdown in the pace of liberalization.

Dür also presents hypotheses about the form in which protection for exporters is provided (preferential or nonpreferential) and the balance of concessions that is exchanged in trade negotiations. Protection for Exporters includes case studies of major developments in international trade relations, such as the passage of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act in the 1930s, the creation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the 1940s, the Kennedy Round in the 1960s, the debate over Fortress Europe in the 1980s, and U.S.-European competition over access to emerging markets in the early 2000s.

Dür's rigorous argument and systematic empirical analyses not only explain transatlantic trade relations but also allow for a better understanding of the dynamics of international economic relations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Andreas Dür is Professor of International Politics at the University of Salzburg.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801448239
ISBN 13 
9780801448232
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
264
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